Title: Error during installation – index.php problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Error during installation – index.php problem

 *  Resolved [tdcinhawaii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tdcinhawaii/)
 * (@tdcinhawaii)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-during-installation-indexphp-problem/)
 * Kind of a long story how I got to this point – and I’ll be the first to admit
   when it comes to this – I know just enough to be dangerous. However, here’s the
   situation:
    I have to rebuild the files for this blog. But since there are numerous
   entries, uploads etc. I don’t want to rebuild the database.
 * This is the error I am now receiving
 * Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_header() in /home/mydatabase/wordpress/
   index.php on line 1
 * Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-during-installation-indexphp-problem/page/2/#post-1735461)
 * You’re welcome!

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