Title: PHP error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# PHP error

 *  [ScottNewMilford](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottnewmilford/)
 * (@scottnewmilford)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-19/)
 * When trying to open the install.php with IE I am getting the following error:
 * Error: PHP is not running
    WordPress requires that your web server is running
   PHP. Your server does not have PHP installed, or PHP is turned off.
 * get_var(“SHOW TABLES LIKE ‘$wpdb->users'”) != null ); // Ensure that Blogs appear
   in search engines by default $blog_public = 1; if ( ! empty( $_POST ) ) $blog_public
   = isset( $_POST[‘blog_public’] ); $weblog_title = isset( $_POST[‘weblog_title’])?
   trim( stripslashes( $_POST[‘weblog_title’] ) ) : ”; $user_name = isset($_POST[‘
   user_name’]) ? trim( stripslashes( $_POST[‘user_name’] ) ) : ‘admin’; $admin_password
   = isset($_POST[‘admin_password’]) ? trim( stripslashes( $_POST[‘admin_password’])):”;
   $admin_email = isset( $_POST[‘admin_email’] ) ? trim( stripslashes( $_POST[‘admin_email’])):”;
   if ( ! is_null( $error ) ) { ?>
 * I am a complete noob when it comes to PHP. I tried installing Xampp, but the 
   did not work. Going under “all programs” > “Php 5” on the server only shows a
   liscense and php.ini file.
 * Any suggestions?

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 *  [Equal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/equalmark/)
 * (@equalmark)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-19/#post-2209728)
 * Who is your host? Do they advertise that they run PHP?

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 * Last reply from: [Equal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/equalmark/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-19/#post-2209728)
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