Title: Can’t run install.php locally
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Can’t run install.php locally

 *  [golfront](https://wordpress.org/support/users/golfront/)
 * (@golfront)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-run-installphp-locally/)
 * I’ve been trying to run the install.php script for version 2.3 to install a local
   version of wordpress. Firefox either asks for a helper application if I try to
   browse from File –> Open File
    or if I try to browse from File –> Open Location
   I get the following message from my Apache server:
 * >  Not Found
   > The requested URL /home/del/www/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php was not found
   > on this server.
   >  Apache/2.2.3 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.1 Server at localhost Port 80
 * I’m stumped. As far as I know Apache should simply send the script to PHP and
   it should install. Are there settings that I need to check/alter to make this
   happen? Permissions perhaps?
 * Thanks in advance for any help here.
 * – Mike

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 * [install.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/install-php/)
 * [local](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/local/)
 * [script](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/script/)

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-run-installphp-locally/)
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