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1. paradisemafia
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Setting up (or trying to) WordPress on a remote host (I can get it to work on a local one...) and I am receiving an error message almost immediately --

   When I try to access /wp-admin/install.php, I get the error message:

   Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/gregoryw/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 122

   I have a database set up, as well as a user on the database and the "wp-config.php" file is modified to reflect this.

   Any ideas as to what could be causing this error (and how to fix it)?

   PHP version 4.4.1
   MySQL 4.0.25-standard

   Thanks.

2. doodlebee
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   >>Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/gregoryw/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 122<<

   That means that, on line 122 of your code in the file "wp-settings.php", there is a "$" that shouldn't be there.

3. paradisemafia
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I kinda thought that, but isn't that strange, since I have never edited the file after downloading it from wordpress.org?

4. doodlebee
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Did you try a fresh download? Maybe the file got corrupted somehow.

5. paradisemafia
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Interestingly, after a fresh download and install, i now get:

   Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/gregoryw/public_html/wp-admin/admin-functions.php on line 1131

   I am beginning to think I have too much $...

6. paradisemafia
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Well, seem to have figured out the problem... the files were corrupting as I uploaded them. Had to check all file sizes on remote host against those on my computer. Not too fun...

   Thanks for the help though....

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