Title: WordPress/PHP Installation Problem
Last modified: July 30, 2018

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# WordPress/PHP Installation Problem

 *  Resolved [cchildspi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cchildspi/)
 * (@cchildspi)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-php-installation-problem/)
 * Hello Everyone,
 * I just bought a Raspberry PI 3 and in the process of setting it up as a Web Server
   using WordPress The Raspberry forum folks sent me over here to you all for assistance.
   I followed the installation tutorial to the letter for setting up APACHE2. Then
   I get to the WordPress configuration and ran across an issue. The issue seems
   to be with PHP. It says that I should be getting a WordPress Welcome page, but
   all I get is:
 * “Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn’t do anything, but loads
   we-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme”
 * I even tried to go to the site/wordpress/wp-admin and php code showed up on that
   page as well. So it seems like php is the cultprit.
 * Any ideas on how to continue or fix this?

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 *  Thread Starter [cchildspi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cchildspi/)
 * (@cchildspi)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-php-installation-problem/page/2/#post-9979367)
 * trying it now…thanks
 *  Thread Starter [cchildspi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cchildspi/)
 * (@cchildspi)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-php-installation-problem/page/2/#post-9979374)
 * Tried it:
    ERROR: Module php does not exist!
 *  Thread Starter [cchildspi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cchildspi/)
 * (@cchildspi)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-php-installation-problem/page/2/#post-9979471)
 * Someone on the Raspberry forum told me to try this and IT FINALLY WORKED!
 * Tried as suggested:
 * sudo a2dismod mpm_event
    sudo a2enmod php7.0 sudo systemctl restart apache2
 * Don’t know what all that means, but I’m glad it worked
 *  Thread Starter [cchildspi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cchildspi/)
 * (@cchildspi)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-php-installation-problem/page/2/#post-9980372)
 * You guys are great and very informative. I will try to take your advice and run
   with it. And as you mentioned ,I did continue the setup as depicted by the tutorial,
   and I hit a snag at the WordPress Setup page where it wants you to enter: database,
   user name, password, database host.
 * I entered wordpress, root, “mypassword”, localhost.
 * Of course i get “Error establishing a database connection”. I just feel like 
   am so close to getting the wordpress setup. I am basically finished with the 
   setup if I can just get this step completed.
 *  Thread Starter [cchildspi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cchildspi/)
 * (@cchildspi)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-php-installation-problem/page/2/#post-9980514)
 * Got it, guys and gals. Had to create a superuser for the database

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 19 replies
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 * Last reply from: [cchildspi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cchildspi/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-php-installation-problem/page/2/#post-9980514)
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