Title: php not running when installing wordpress
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# php not running when installing wordpress

 *  [flameash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flameash/)
 * (@flameash)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-not-running-when-installing-wordpress/)
 * hi everyone
    newbie here. im trying to host a website on my local machine. I 
   downloaded mySql, wordpress3.0.1 and php already and they are all installed.
 * When i follow the 5 min installation thing on the website and tried to open wp-
   admin/install.php; the following error message appeared:
    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.
 * It says php is not installed right? but when i check my system and find that 
   Php 5 is actually installed in my machine coz i can see it from program menu.
 * so im stuck at the installation progress at the moment.
    im first time using 
   wordpress to host website; please help out if you can. many thanks.

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 *  [Pranav Rastogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ulgaming/)
 * (@ulgaming)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-not-running-when-installing-wordpress/#post-1764204)
 * Hi,
 * Try using WAMPserver for this job, it’s much better and a painless way to run
   WP on a local machine.

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