• I’m trying to get WP installed on my site. I’ve made my way through items 1-4 on the 5 minute install list –

    define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘jasonpedley_com’); // The name of the database
    define(‘DB_USER’, ‘jasonpedley’); // Your MySQL username
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password’); // …and password
    define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
    define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
    define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

    …but when I got to open /wp-admin/install.php, my browser (Firefox) wants to open the file as if it were trying to download it as opposed to simply taking me through the install script. Oddly enough, the icon for all the PHP files are the Dreamweaver icon.

    What gives? Any advice?

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  • Just to check – you have uploaded the WordPress files, and you’re going to

    http://example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

    If that’s right, and the file is downloading rather than running, it could be that your site is not configured to run PHP – can you check this with your host?

    I just went through this yesterday. Make a screen shots of your database setup page (database name, user, etc) and your config file. Compare the two and make sure the names are identical. Also be sure you hit “submit” button on the database setup page when you add a user. Anne

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