Title: Installation Error (Fatal error): require_once()
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Installation Error (Fatal error): require_once()

 *  Resolved [fusionjedi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fusionjedi/)
 * (@fusionjedi)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-error-fatal-error-require_once/)
 * I uploaded the wordpress files through FTP and then went to the wp-admin/install.
   php to start the install and received the error below. I’m installing wordpress
   at the root of the website.
 * Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘ABSPATHwp-
   admin/includes/admin.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/share/php’) in /www/hostsnake.
   com/f/u/s/fusionjedi/htdocs/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php on line 5
 * Website is: heatherstasson.com
    Host is: hostsnake.com MySQL database is setup
   and wp-config file is edited and uploaded. PHP version is: 5.1.6 MySQL version
   is: 5.0.x Apache version is: 2
 * Please help.

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-error-fatal-error-require_once/#post-705272)
 * Try re-uploading a fresh copy of the files.
 *  Thread Starter [fusionjedi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fusionjedi/)
 * (@fusionjedi)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-error-fatal-error-require_once/#post-705274)
 * I did. I got the same error.
 * I deleted all files, downloaded a fresh copy from wordpress.org and uploaded 
   the fresh copy. Same error.
 * Any ideas?

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 * [admin.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin-php/)
 * [fatal error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/fatal-error/)
 * [function.require](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/function-require/)
 * [require_once](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/require_once/)
 * [upgrade.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upgrade-php/)

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 * Last reply from: [fusionjedi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fusionjedi/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-error-fatal-error-require_once/#post-705274)
 * Status: resolved

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