Here, let me add a bit that appears at the top of the page when I go to the install.php file.
`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.”, “WordPress › Error”); } require_once(‘../wp-config.php’); require_once(‘./upgrade-functions.php’); if (isset($_GET[‘step’])) $step = $_GET[‘step’]; else $step = 0; header( ‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8’ ); ?> > text_direction) ) : ?>
Your server is not interpreting PHP, it’s just serving it up as text.
Please provide some more information:
Type of webserver (Apache? IIS?), operating system (Windows? Mac? Linux?).
Did you install a package such as XAMPP?
Hi. I am new to wordpress. I have the same problem as jrdelaney. I installed WAMP5 yesterday and was playing around with it. Today I installed wordpress and i am not able to get it to work. The PHP files are not interpreted. should I unzip the wordpress folder in Apache’s www folder? right now it is in my C drive. I have set the username (root) and password for my mysql database in the wp_config.php file. But, the /wp-admin/install.php file is making no sense to me. Any help is appreciated.
Yes, WordPress needs to be where your webserver can serve it.
Assuming you put the WordPress folder in your www folder, you should be going to:
http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php
Thanks!! it worked like charm!
