Title: WP-CLI – Strange wp-config.php
Last modified: May 6, 2020

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# WP-CLI – Strange wp-config.php

 *  Resolved [mscott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mscott/)
 * (@mscott)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-cli-strange-wp-config-php/)
 * Why does wp-cli look for a wp-config.php file even it’s just suppose to issue
   the help page?
 * $ wget -q -O wp-cli.phar [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar)
   
   $ chmod 700 wp-cli.phar $ ./wp-cli.phar –help Error: Strange wp-config.php file:
   wp-settings.php is not loaded directly.
 * What is causing this? Any ideas?
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by [mscott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mscott/).

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 *  [Liew Cheon-Fong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lcf/)
 * (@lcf)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-cli-strange-wp-config-php/#post-12885239)
 * because wp-cli needs to check for WordPress installation?
 *  Thread Starter [mscott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mscott/)
 * (@mscott)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-cli-strange-wp-config-php/#post-12885271)
 * So… you’ve got to have WordPress installed before wpcli will even show a help
   screen? … That’s… helpful.
 * At any rate, I opened this thread over 2 weeks ago. I resolved the issue that
   I had – don’t remember what I did to resolve it.

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 * Last reply from: [mscott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mscott/)
 * Last activity: [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-cli-strange-wp-config-php/#post-12885271)
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