• I’ve followed the “Get Started in 5 minutes” instructions… all the way to install.

    When I click on the /wp-admin/install.php link, I get this garbled message:

    wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started. Need more help? We got it. You can create a wp-config.php file through a web interface, but this doesn’t work for all server setups. The safest way is to manually create the file.”, “WordPress › Error”); } require_once(‘../wp-config.php’); require_once(‘./upgrade-functions.php’); if (isset($_GET[‘step’])) $step = $_GET[‘step’]; else $step = 0; header( ‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8’ ); ?> > text_direction) ) : ?>

    ‘.__(‘Already Installed’).’

    ‘.__(‘You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.’).’
    ‘); switch($step) { case 0: ?>

    ReadMe documentation at your leisure.’), ‘../readme.html’); ?>

    Here’s a copy of my config.php (password omitted):

    <?php
    // ** MySQL settings ** //
    define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘chrisbl1_cbdotcom’); // The name of the database
    define(‘DB_USER’, ‘chrisbl1_chrisbl’); // Your MySQL username
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘OMITTED‘); // …and password
    define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
    define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
    define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

    // You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix
    $table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

    // Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the
    // chosen language must be installed to wp-content/languages.
    // For example, install de.mo to wp-content/languages and set WPLANG to ‘de’
    // to enable German language support.
    define (‘WPLANG’, ”);

    /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

    define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__).’/’);
    require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-settings.php’);
    ?>

    What have I done wrong?

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  • If you see all that “garbage” it means PHP is not running on your server.

    Thread Starter chrisbloczynski

    (@chrisbloczynski)

    How would I go about fixing that problem? Thanks in advance for the help.

    You cannot do anything about it.
    Does your host offer PHP and MySQL? See the requirements.

    Thread Starter chrisbloczynski

    (@chrisbloczynski)

    I chose Bluehost, one of the recommended hosting services for WordPress.org. I just checked, and it sure does offer PHP and MySQL. I created a MySQL database and used that info in my config.php file that I cut and pasted at the top of the thread. I’ll send the Dear John letter that was in the Requirements link you posted, but I’m pretty sure that Bluehost meets the requirements.

    Oh, I just noticed this:
    When I click on the /wp-admin/install.php link
    Where do you click on that?
    Actually you do NOT click on anything, you TYPE in your address bar this:
    http://www.example.com/wp-admin/install.php
    (of course, replace example.com with your domain)

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