Title: Install problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Install problem

 *  [ealvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealvin/)
 * (@ealvin)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-problem-1/)
 * I’m having trouble getting the install script to run in my browser. I get a “
   page not found” error message.
 * Rereading the documentation I noticed the recommendation to rename the wp file
   directory on the hard drive to your desired name that will be placed on the server.
   I didn’t do this. Instead I uploaded all of the files residing in my computer’s
   wp directory to my site’s “blog” direcory. Did I do this correctly or do I need
   to upload the “blog” directory? And, is the blog directory where these files 
   go? Could this be my problem?
 * Also, the install script that goes in the browser has a period after the php 
   in the documentation but Ã? don’t believe it belongs in my address bar in my 
   browser, correct?
 * If there any any other suggestions as to why this script doesn’t start I’d really
   welcome your hellp. Thanks in advance.

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 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-problem-1/#post-160880)
 * Can you make sure that you uploaded the files, and not the entire “wordpress”
   folder to the blog directory that you mention?
 * I suspect you might have uploaded the entire wordpress directory, including the
   directory to the blog folder on your server. If this is the case, upload all 
   the files inside the wordpress directory, after you have unzipped the downloaded
   zip file, to the “blog” directory on your server.
 * If it fails, since this is a new install, there is no harm in deleting the blog
   directory, renaming the directory “wordpress” to “blog” _before_ uploading and
   then uploading it to the root(public_html or similar) of your website.
 * There is no period after install.php – you are correct about that.
 *  Thread Starter [ealvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealvin/)
 * (@ealvin)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-problem-1/#post-160884)
 *  Thread Starter [ealvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealvin/)
 * (@ealvin)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-problem-1/#post-160887)
 * Thanks for your reply. Yes I’m sure I didn’t upload the folder, I only uploaded
   the files. I see 26 of them (if my memory is correct) in the server’s file manager
   under the blog directory. They were unzipped and the wp-configur.php file was
   created before uploading them. Are you suggesting that there might be a greater
   likelyhood that if I changed the wp directory to blog and uploaded to the root
   that the install script would work?
 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-problem-1/#post-160889)
 * No, if the files are in the blog directory as you say, everything should be okay
   with the upload.
 * Does you host provide a database, and have you created a wp-config.php file?
 * If your domain is example.com, then your install script will be at [http://example.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php](http://example.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php)
 * Can you provide us with a link to the problem site?
 *  Thread Starter [ealvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealvin/)
 * (@ealvin)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-problem-1/#post-160911)
 * I created the database and the wp-config.php file. The link to the site is [http://www.scoremoreclients.com](http://www.scoremoreclients.com).
   To attempt to install the script I put this [http://scoremoreclients.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php](http://scoremoreclients.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php)
   into my browser and Go. It brings back the page not found message. Any other 
   info I can provide you? Thanks.
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-problem-1/#post-160915)
 * How did you get the files from your computer to the site ?
    I cannot find any
   css files, the license.txt or readme.html which leads me to suspect that nothing
   has correctly uploaded – hence the issues.
 *  Thread Starter [ealvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealvin/)
 * (@ealvin)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-problem-1/#post-160920)
 * I ftp’d it. I checked the site’s file manager & I see both the license & readme
   files under the blog directory. I don’t know what the css files look like so 
   I can’t comment on that. If you check your wp directory on your drive do you 
   have 4 folders and 22 files? That’s what I have on my C drive and server. It 
   looks to me like everything is there. What next?

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
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 * Last reply from: [ealvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealvin/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-problem-1/#post-160920)
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