Title: Install Error, Parse Error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Install Error, Parse Error

 *  [acoppard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acoppard/)
 * (@acoppard)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-error-parse-error/)
 * As soon as I go to the index of my blog for the first time I get this error: 
   Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘:’ in /home/m91dbda/public_html/adamcoppard/
   blog/wp-content/themes/default/index.php on line 2
    Any help appreciated.

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 *  [Class](https://wordpress.org/support/users/class/)
 * (@class)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-error-parse-error/#post-615145)
 * Try re-uploading the standard theme perhaps?
 *  Thread Starter [acoppard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acoppard/)
 * (@acoppard)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-error-parse-error/#post-615161)
 * It’s all stnadard. Just downloaded the 2.2 tar.gz unzipped, uploaded to server,
   and came up with this.

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 * Last reply from: [acoppard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acoppard/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-error-parse-error/#post-615161)
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