Title: Installation HELL!!! Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Installation HELL!!! * [pforkes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pforkes/) * (@pforkes) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-hell/) * I am trying to install WordPress 3.03 on my iMac running Snow Leopard 10.6.5 and Safari 5.03 and I have read the readme file. And I’ve read it again, and I’ve read it again. * I created a page called test.php, with the following code: * * and I saved it in Macintosh HD:Library:WebServer:Documents. * When I type [http://localhost/test.php](http://localhost/test.php) into Safari 5.03 I see that “PHP Version 5.5.3” is running and see all the details about it. * I downloaded Word Press 3.03 and when I run wp-admin/install.php it defaults to opening in DreamWeaver CS4 and I see the following: * “Error: PHP is not running * WordPress requires that your web server is running PHP. Your server does not have PHP installed, or PHP is turned off.” * If I use Safari 5.05 to open wp-admin/install.php I just see raw php code. * How on Earth do I get Word Press to run? I am absolutely bewildered by all of this. What is the magic that will get it to work????? Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 23 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-hell/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-hell/page/2/?output_format=md) * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-hell/#post-1831713) * Have you setup a local server environment yet? * If not, try MAMP: [http://www.mamp.info/en/mamp.html](http://www.mamp.info/en/mamp.html) * Then, follow this guide: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP) * Thread Starter [pforkes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pforkes/) * (@pforkes) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-hell/#post-1831715) * Yes, I have used MAMP to set up the server environment. * >> I created a page called test.php, with the following code: >> >> and I saved it in Macintosh HD:Library:WebServer:Documents. >> When I type [http://localhost/test.php](http://localhost/test.php) into Safari 5.03 I see that “PHP Version 5.5.3” is >> running and see all the details about it. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-hell/#post-1831717) * Did you install WordPress following the guide that I linked to? * Thread Starter [pforkes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pforkes/) * (@pforkes) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-hell/#post-1831719) * yes I did, but the problem is at step 4, when I run wp-admin/install.php. This is where I see the message about PHP not running, when everything else tells me that it is. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-hell/#post-1831722) * In that case, it sounds like there’s a misconfiguration in the server environment. * I recommend contacting the MAMP support forum: [http://forum.mamp.info/index.php?c=1](http://forum.mamp.info/index.php?c=1) * Thread Starter [pforkes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pforkes/) * (@pforkes) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-hell/#post-1831723) * Forgive me, because I am WAY out of my depth her, but what do I ask them there? I have NO idea what to say or ask them. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-hell/#post-1831727) * Basically explain the entire issue as you did here. phpinfo loads properly, but other PHP-requiring files are reporting that PHP isn’t running. * [datasoftict](https://wordpress.org/support/users/datasoftict/) * (@datasoftict) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-hell/#post-1831746) * I know very little about iMacs but it sounds like path variables to me. When I have error like this I run my phpinfo() file (test.php in your case) in the directories I have problems. It should, of course, fail, but often gives a more productive error message that WP does. * You say that wp-admin/install.php gives you raw code, I assume that was [http://localhost/wp-admin/install.php](http://localhost/wp-admin/install.php)? If so, just go to the [http://localhost](http://localhost) directory and start from scratch with the install. If you inmstalled into your root localhost then the index.php of WP should start from there. As your test.php worked so should index.php. If WP is installed in a subdirectory – for example /wordpress – start from there. * Thread Starter [pforkes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pforkes/) * (@pforkes) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-hell/#post-1831880) * Ok, let’s back up here (I have no idea what all of these questions are about). * If I open ‘[http://localhost’](http://localhost’); then Safari opens and it shows the text “It works!” * When you say “Start from scratch with the install” what do you mean? I downloaded WordPress and it is in a folder in my downloads folder. * What do I do next? * This is taking longer than 5-minutes (is that why it’s famous?”. * Thread Starter [pforkes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pforkes/) * (@pforkes) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-hell/#post-1831885) * If I open ‘[http://localhost/wp-admin/install.php’](http://localhost/wp-admin/install.php’); it tells me it’s not found. Where should it be so that it can find it???? * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-hell/#post-1831899) * The famous 5 minutes refers to on a webhost, not on you own PC. * What folder, on your Macintosh, did you copy the wordpress stuff to? Should be/ home/user/YourID/sites/…. and then whatever you did. * Thread Starter [pforkes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pforkes/) * (@pforkes) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-hell/#post-1831901) * It is in: * **Macintosh HD/user/pforkes/wordpress/** * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-hell/#post-1831905) * Ah, well there’s problem one 🙂 * Where did you set your document root? From [Step 2: Basic MAMP Settings](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP#Step_2:_Basic_MAMP_Settings) * > Lastly, on the Apache tab, you’ll need to set a document root. This is where > all of your files are going to be for your local web server. An example of > a document root is /Users/USERNAME/Sites/wordpress/. * So probably you need to move the wordpress folder to `Macintosh HD/user/pforkes/ Sites/wordpress` * Thread Starter [pforkes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pforkes/) * (@pforkes) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-hell/#post-1831907) * Still not running. * I did everything in step2 (chaning the document root to: * **/Users/pforkes/Sites/wordpress** * I started the servers (green lights against Apache and MySQL). * I created a database in phpMyAdmin, edited the install.php file, ran wordpress, same error: * **Error: PHP is not running** * WordPress requires that your web server is running PHP. Your server does not have PHP installed, or PHP is turned off. * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-hell/#post-1831908) * What folder is the `test.php` file in? * And just double check that it’s on right now… Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 23 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-hell/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-hell/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Installation HELL!!!’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 23 replies * 7 participants * Last reply from: [pforkes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pforkes/) * Last activity: [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-hell/page/2/#post-1832014) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics