Title: Cannot Open wp-admin/install.php After Install
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Cannot Open wp-admin/install.php After Install

 *  Resolved [excave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/excave/)
 * (@excave)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-open-wp-admininstallphp-after-install/)
 * Server: Windows 2008 Enterprise SP2 64-bit
 * Have successfully installed PHP ([Check Here](http://www.matthewkaiser.com/blog/wp-admin/phptest.php))
   and MySQL Essential 5.1.44.
 * I have updated wp-config.php with the database name I created in MySQL, the database
   user name and password, and left the database hostname as localhost. All settings
   confirmed using the status command in MySQL.
 * WordPress was installed into a folder under the root of my site, at [http://www.matthewkaiser.com/blog](http://www.matthewkaiser.com/blog).
 * When I try to open the wp-admin/install.php page, I get `500 – Internal server
   error.
    There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot
   be displayed.`
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated, and yes, this is my first venture into
   OSS! And I don’t care if you’re kind to a newbie, I just want help. 🙂

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-open-wp-admininstallphp-after-install/#post-1428025)
 * Have you tried re-uploading everything from a **fresh** download of WordPress?
 *  Thread Starter [excave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/excave/)
 * (@excave)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-open-wp-admininstallphp-after-install/#post-1428093)
 * I did everything **fresh** today, never had done it before, on the server. The
   server is completely under my control. I will not lose anything if I remove what
   I’ve done and do it all again, I just don’t think anything will be different,
   but I’ll try. Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [excave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/excave/)
 * (@excave)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-open-wp-admininstallphp-after-install/#post-1428181)
 * **Fixed**! In the absence of a working blog installation as a reference point,
   I went back to the database and deleted (dropped) everything related to my new
   installation. I dropped the database and user I had created for the blog, and
   started over. I created the database, created the user, and granted permissions
   to the user on the new database, and now I can get to the WordPress installation
   page!
 * Thanks for allowing me to think out loud!
 *  Thread Starter [excave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/excave/)
 * (@excave)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-open-wp-admininstallphp-after-install/#post-1428182)
 * Oh, I forgot to post what I think was the REAL problem. I had to change my DB_HOST
   to the IP address of my server (locally assigned to the network card) as I guess
   local host was not identified correctly; may need to update the hosts file, which
   I will try later, but at least know that using an IP address is very useful!

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 * Last reply from: [excave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/excave/)
 * Last activity: [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-open-wp-admininstallphp-after-install/#post-1428182)
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