Title: Installation issue!!!
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Installation issue!!!

 *  [jrdelaney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrdelaney/)
 * (@jrdelaney)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-issue-2/)
 * I can’t get my install.php to work!
 * It keeps coming up with some mumbo-jumbo that makes no sense at all. *If you 
   want a screen shot, just ask…*
 * I’m trying to install this on my own server at home, but have been QUITE unsuccessful
   for some time now.
 * Please help!

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 *  Thread Starter [jrdelaney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrdelaney/)
 * (@jrdelaney)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-issue-2/#post-536050)
 * Here, let me add a bit that appears at the top of the page when I go to the install.
   php file.
 * `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.”, “WordPress › Error”); } require_once(‘../wp-config.php’); require_once(‘./
   upgrade-functions.php’); if (isset($_GET[‘step’])) $step = $_GET[‘step’]; else
   $step = 0; header( ‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8’ ); ?> > text_direction)):?
   >
 *  [Les Bessant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesbessant/)
 * (@lesbessant)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-issue-2/#post-536052)
 * Your server is not interpreting PHP, it’s just serving it up as text.
 * Please provide some more information:
 * Type of webserver (Apache? IIS?), operating system (Windows? Mac? Linux?).
 * Did you install a package such as [XAMPP](http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html)?
 *  [coolnfunkyraj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolnfunkyraj/)
 * (@coolnfunkyraj)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-issue-2/#post-536086)
 * Hi. I am new to wordpress. I have the same problem as jrdelaney. I installed 
   WAMP5 yesterday and was playing around with it. Today I installed wordpress and
   i am not able to get it to work. The PHP files are not interpreted. should I 
   unzip the wordpress folder in Apache’s www folder? right now it is in my C drive.
   I have set the username (root) and password for my mysql database in the wp_config.
   php file. But, the /wp-admin/install.php file is making no sense to me. Any help
   is appreciated.
 *  [Les Bessant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesbessant/)
 * (@lesbessant)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-issue-2/#post-536094)
 * Yes, WordPress needs to be where your webserver can serve it.
 * Assuming you put the WordPress folder in your www folder, you should be going
   to:
 * [http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php](http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php)
 *  [coolnfunkyraj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolnfunkyraj/)
 * (@coolnfunkyraj)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-issue-2/#post-536126)
 * Thanks!! it worked like charm!

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [coolnfunkyraj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolnfunkyraj/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-issue-2/#post-536126)
 * Status: not resolved

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