Title: Error message
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Error message

 *  Resolved [Mike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike/)
 * (@mike)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-1-2-5/)
 * A reader of our site claims that he saw an error message that read:
 * “It looks like you haven’t installed wp.”
 * Then a link: “install wp.”
 * I have looked through the WP code and can’t find this anywhere, so either he 
   is lying or we got hacked. Any ideas?

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 *  [Nazgul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nazgul/)
 * (@nazgul)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-1-2-5/#post-407139)
 * It’s on line 127 of wp-settings.php.
 * But it’s only shown when the siteurl option isn’t available or empty, so I don’t
   know why he got that message if the blog is properly installed.
 *  Thread Starter [Mike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike/)
 * (@mike)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-1-2-5/#post-407140)
 * Weird. I believe the error popped up when our server did it scheduled mySQL clean-
   up. Does that seem right?
 *  [Nazgul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nazgul/)
 * (@nazgul)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-1-2-5/#post-407143)
 * Yes, that could be it.
 * If you look at that file, you’ll see a `$wpdb->hide_errors();` on line 120.
    
   So if an error occured while querying, the calling code doesn’t get notified,
   so the query on line 121 will just return an empty string, thus triggering the
   message.
 *  Thread Starter [Mike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike/)
 * (@mike)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-1-2-5/#post-407146)
 * Thanks for your help!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-1-2-5/#post-407146)
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