Title: Possible Problem With PHP Install?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Possible Problem With PHP Install?

 *  [n2nov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/n2nov/)
 * (@n2nov)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-problem-with-php-install/)
 * After installing MySQL, PHP5 and WordPress, I run the wp-admin/install.php and
   I get the below code showing. Can someone point me to where I need to make further
   adjustments? Thanks.
 * wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started. Need more help? We
   got it. You can create a wp-config.php file through a web interface, but this
   doesn’t work for all server setups. The safest way is to manually create the 
   file.”); require_once(‘../wp-config.php’); require_once(‘./upgrade-functions.
   php’); $schema = ( isset($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) && strtolower($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) 
   == ‘on’ ) ? ‘[https://&#8217](https://&#8217); : ‘[http://&#8217](http://&#8217);;
   $guessurl = str_replace(‘/wp-admin/install.php?step=2’, ”, $schema . $_SERVER[‘
   HTTP_HOST’] . dirname($_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]) ); if (isset($_GET[‘step’])) $step
   = $_GET[‘step’]; else $step = 0; header( ‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-
   8’ ); ?>
 * hide_errors(); $installed = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM $wpdb->users”);
   if ($installed) die(‘
    ‘.__(‘Already Installed’).’ ‘.__(‘You appear to have already
   installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.’).’
 * ‘); $wpdb->show_errors(); switch($step) { case 0: ?>
    ReadMe documentation at
   your leisure.’), ‘../readme.html’); ?>
 * ERROR: please type your e-mail address”)); } else if (!is_email($admin_email)){
   die (__(“ERROR: the e-mail address isn’t correct”)); } ?>
 * query(“INSERT INTO $wpdb->linkcategories (cat_id, cat_name) VALUES (1, ‘”.$wpdb-
   >escape(__(‘Blogroll’)).”‘)”); $wpdb->query(“INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url,
   link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES (‘[http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/&#8217](http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/&#8217);,‘
   Donncha’, 1, ‘[http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/feed/&#8217](http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/feed/&#8217);,”);”);
   $wpdb->query(“INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss,
   link_notes) VALUES (‘[http://zengun.org/weblog/&#8217](http://zengun.org/weblog/&#8217);,‘
   Michel’, 1, ‘[http://zengun.org/weblog/feed/&#8217](http://zengun.org/weblog/feed/&#8217);,”);”);
   $wpdb->query(“INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss,
   link_notes) VALUES (‘[http://boren.nu/&#8217](http://boren.nu/&#8217);, ‘Ryan’,
   1, ‘[http://boren.nu/feed/&#8217](http://boren.nu/feed/&#8217);, ”);”); $wpdb-
   >query(“INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss,
   link_notes) VALUES (‘[http://photomatt.net/&#8217](http://photomatt.net/&#8217);,‘
   Matt’, 1, ‘[http://xml.photomatt.net/feed/&#8217](http://xml.photomatt.net/feed/&#8217);,”);”);
   $wpdb->query(“INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss,
   link_notes) VALUES (‘[http://zed1.com/journalized/&#8217](http://zed1.com/journalized/&#8217);,‘
   Mike’, 1, ‘[http://zed1.com/journalized/feed/&#8217](http://zed1.com/journalized/feed/&#8217);,”);”);
   $wpdb->query(“INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss,
   link_notes) VALUES (‘[http://www.alexking.org/&#8217](http://www.alexking.org/&#8217);,‘
   Alex’, 1, ‘[http://www.alexking.org/blog/wp-rss2.php&#8217](http://www.alexking.org/blog/wp-rss2.php&#8217);,”);”);
   $wpdb->query(“INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss,
   link_notes) VALUES (‘[http://dougal.gunters.org/&#8217](http://dougal.gunters.org/&#8217);,‘
   Dougal’, 1, ‘[http://dougal.gunters.org/feed/&#8217](http://dougal.gunters.org/feed/&#8217);,”);”);//
   Default category $wpdb->query(“INSERT INTO $wpdb->categories (cat_ID, cat_name,
   category_nicename, category_count, category_description) VALUES (‘0’, ‘”.$wpdb-
   >escape(__(‘Uncategorized’)).”‘, ‘”.sanitize_title(__(‘Uncategorized’)).”‘, ‘
   1’, ”)”); // First post $now = date(‘Y-m-d H:i:s’); $now_gmt = gmdate(‘Y-m-d 
   H:i:s’); $wpdb->query(“INSERT INTO $wpdb->posts (post_author, post_date, post_date_gmt,
   post_content, post_excerpt, post_title, post_category, post_name, post_modified,
   post_modified_gmt, comment_count, to_ping, pinged, post_content_filtered) VALUES(‘
   1’, ‘$now’, ‘$now_gmt’, ‘”.$wpdb->escape(__(‘Welcome to WordPress. This is your
   first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!’)).”‘, ”, ‘”.$wpdb->escape(
   __(‘Hello world!’)).”‘, ‘0’, ‘”.$wpdb->escape(__(‘hello-world’)).”‘, ‘$now’, ‘
   $now_gmt’, ‘1’, ”, ”, ”)”); $wpdb->query( “INSERT INTO $wpdb->post2cat (`rel_id`,`
   post_id`, `category_id`) VALUES (1, 1, 1)” ); // Default comment $wpdb->query(“
   INSERT INTO $wpdb->comments (comment_post_ID, comment_author, comment_author_email,
   comment_author_url, comment_date, comment_date_gmt, comment_content) VALUES (‘
   1’, ‘”.$wpdb->escape(__(‘Mr WordPress’)).”‘, ”, ‘[http://wordpress.org/&#8217](http://wordpress.org/&#8217);,‘
   $now’, ‘$now_gmt’, ‘”.$wpdb->escape(__(‘Hi, this is a comment.
    To delete a comment,
   just log in, and view the posts\’ comments, there you will have the option to
   edit or delete them.’)).”‘)”); // First Page $wpdb->query(“INSERT INTO $wpdb-
   >posts (post_author, post_date, post_date_gmt, post_content, post_excerpt, post_title,
   post_category, post_name, post_modified, post_modified_gmt, post_status, to_ping,
   pinged, post_content_filtered) VALUES (‘1’, ‘$now’, ‘$now_gmt’, ‘”.$wpdb->escape(
   __(‘This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information
   about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can
   create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of
   your content inside of WordPress.’)).”‘, ”, ‘”.$wpdb->escape(__(‘About’)).”‘,‘
   0’, ‘”.$wpdb->escape(__(‘about’)).”‘, ‘$now’, ‘$now_gmt’, ‘static’, ”, ”, ”)”);
   $wp_rewrite->flush_rules(); // Set up admin user $random_password = substr(md5(
   uniqid(microtime())), 0, 6); $display_name_array = explode(‘@’, $admin_email);
   $display_name = $display_name_array[0]; $wpdb->query(“INSERT INTO $wpdb->users(
   ID, user_login, user_pass, user_email, user_registered, display_name, user_nicename)
   VALUES ( ‘1’, ‘admin’, MD5(‘$random_password’), ‘$admin_email’, NOW(), ‘$display_name’,‘
   admin’)”); $wpdb->query(“INSERT INTO $wpdb->usermeta (user_id, meta_key, meta_value)
   VALUES ({$wpdb->insert_id}, ‘{$table_prefix}user_level’, ’10’);”); $admin_caps
   = serialize(array(‘administrator’ => true)); $wpdb->query(“INSERT INTO $wpdb-
   >usermeta (user_id, meta_key, meta_value) VALUES ({$wpdb->insert_id}, ‘{$table_prefix}
   capabilities’, ‘{$admin_caps}’);”); $message_headers = ‘From: ‘ . $weblog_title.‘
   log in with the username “admin” and password “%2$s”.’), ‘../wp-login.php’, $
   random_password); ?>
 * Note that password carefully! It is a random password that was generated just
   for you. If you lose it, you will have to delete the tables from the database
   yourself, and re-install WordPress. So to review:’); ?>
 * admin
    wp-login.php
 * WordPress, personal publishing platform.’); ?>

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-problem-with-php-install/#post-390622)
 * Run it via a browser.
 * http://yourdomain/yourblog/wp-admin/install.php
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-problem-with-php-install/#post-390623)
 * If you see all that garbage as you posted – your PHP is not running. Try to get
   answers in a forum that is specialized on setting up servers.
    Or get XAMPP if
   you don’t know how to set up a server.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-problem-with-php-install/#post-390637)
 * Don’t post code here! Use a pastebin service, if necessary.
    And, most of all,
   read my reply above.

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 * Last activity: [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-problem-with-php-install/#post-390637)
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