Title: Trouble Installing WordPress
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Trouble Installing WordPress

 *  [drewiza](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewiza/)
 * (@drewiza)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-installing-wordpress-2/)
 * I’ve been following these directions:
 * “Installation: Famous 5-minute install
 *  1. Unzip the package in an empty directory
    2. Open up wp-config-sample.php 
   with a text editor like WordPad or similar and fill in your database connection
   details 3. Save the file as wp-config.php 4. Upload everything. 5. Open /wp-admin/
   install.php in your browser. This should setup the tables needed for your blog.
   If there is an error, double check your wp-config.php file, and try again. If
   it fails again, please go to the support forums with as much data as you can 
   gather. 6. Note the password given to you. 7. The install script should then 
   send you to the login page. Sign in with the username admin and the password 
   generated during the installation. You can then click on ‘Profile’ to change 
   the password.”
 * Where it says upload everything, upload everything to where? I assumed to my 
   host. But I just got my hosting yesterday and I’m not to familiar with the layout
   yet. But I used File Manager and uploaded it (as if it was an image or anything
   else.) I figured thats what I was supposed to do. But when I moved on to the 
   next step. It didnt work. DO I have to make a directory for the folder. Sorry
   guys I’m just totally lost, and I considered myself pretty internet/computer 
   savy.

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 *  [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-installing-wordpress-2/#post-450965)
 * Read through these FAQs, and see if they shed any light
    [FAQ_Installation](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Installation)
 *  Thread Starter [drewiza](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewiza/)
 * (@drewiza)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-installing-wordpress-2/#post-450967)
 * thanks for the link, i figured it out.

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
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 * Last reply from: [drewiza](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewiza/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-installing-wordpress-2/#post-450967)
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