Title: Install Trouble
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Install Trouble

 *  [ramongonzalezjr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ramongonzalezjr/)
 * (@ramongonzalezjr)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-trouble/)
 * I am having trouble installing wordpress to my server. This is what I get
 * File Type: PHP script text
 * ——————————————————————————–
 * 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.”);
 * require_once(‘../wp-config.php’);
    require_once(‘./upgrade-functions.php’);
 * $schema = ( isset($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) && strtolower($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) == ‘on’)?‘
   [https://&#8217](https://&#8217); : ‘[http://&#8217](http://&#8217);;
    $guessurl
   = str_replace(‘/wp-admin/install.php?step=2’, ”, $schema . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’].
   dirname($_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]) );
 * if (isset($_GET[‘step’]))
    $step = $_GET[‘step’]; else $step = 0; header( ‘Content-
   Type: text/html; charset=utf-8’ ); ?>
 * hide_errors();
    $installed = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM $wpdb->users”);
   if ($installed) die(”.__(‘Already Installed’).”.__(‘You appear to have already
   installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.’).”);
   $wpdb->show_errors();
 * switch($step) {
 *  case 0:
    ?> ReadMe documentation at your leisure.’), ‘../readme.html’); ?>

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 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-trouble/#post-449459)
 * So did you give the wp-config.php file all the correct info?
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-trouble/#post-449495)
 * If you see all that stuff – PHP is not running on your server.
    See the requirements
   for installing WP: [http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/](http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/)
 *  Thread Starter [ramongonzalezjr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ramongonzalezjr/)
 * (@ramongonzalezjr)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-trouble/#post-449524)
 * i checked the cpanel page, and i have all the current php, and mysql stuff included.
   I host at geekhosting.com. If the php is there and not running, how do i get 
   it running.

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 * [installed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installed/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [ramongonzalezjr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ramongonzalezjr/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-trouble/#post-449524)
 * Status: not resolved

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