WordPress already installed; must provide email address
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I set up my wp-config.php file as instructed. Uploaded entire wordpress folder. I then went to the admin folder on my harddrive and opened install.php with Firefox and got the following the first time I ran it on a new database. I searched and found 3 other users having the exact same problem with v2.3. What do I do to correct this?
My host is running PHP 4.4.4 and MySQL 4.1.22-standard.
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(‘./includes/upgrade.php’); if (isset($_GET[‘step’])) $step = $_GET[‘step’]; else $step = 0; header( ‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8’ ); ?> >
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‘.__(‘Already Installed’).’‘.__(‘You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.’).’
‘); switch($step) { case 0: case 1: // in case people are directly linking to this ?>ReadMe documentation at your leisure. Otherwise, just fill in the information below and you\’ll be on your way to using the most extendable and powerful personal publishing platform in the world.’), ‘../readme.html’); ?>
ERROR: you must provide an e-mail address”)); } else if (!is_email($admin_email)) { // TODO: poka-yoke die(__(‘ERROR: that isn\’t a valid e-mail address. E-mail addresses look like: username@example.com’)); } $result = wp_install($weblog_title, ‘admin’, $admin_email, $public); extract($result, EXTR_SKIP); ?>
log in with the username “admin” and password “%2$s”.’), ‘../wp-login.php’, $password); ?>
Note that password carefully! It is a random password that was generated just for you.’); ?>
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wp-login.phpWordPress, personal publishing platform.’); ?>
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