Title: Installattion Error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Installattion Error

 *  [difriends](https://wordpress.org/support/users/difriends/)
 * (@difriends)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installattion-error/)
 * I get the following gibberish when I try to open the install.php file in my browser.
   It appears to simply be html code, but I really don’t know. Any ideas? Did something
   not load correctly?
 * 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(‘./
   includes/upgrade.php’); if (isset($_GET[‘step’])) $step = $_GET[‘step’]; else
   $step = 0; header( ‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8’ ); ?> >
    WordPress‘.
   __(‘Already Installed’).’
 * ‘.__(‘You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear
   your old database tables first.’).’
    ‘); switch($step) { case 0: case 1: // in
   case people are directly linking to this ?>
 * ReadMe documentation at your leisure. Otherwise, just fill in the information
   below and you\’ll be on your way to using the most extendable and powerful personal
   publishing platform in the world.’), ‘../readme.html’); ?>
 * ERROR: you must provide an e-mail address”)); } else if (!is_email($admin_email)){//
   TODO: poka-yoke die(__(‘ERROR: that isn\’t a valid e-mail address. E-mail addresses
   look like: [username@example.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installattion-error/username@example.com?output_format=md)’));}
   $result = wp_install($weblog_title, ‘admin’, $admin_email, $public); extract(
   $result, EXTR_SKIP); ?>

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 *  [CyberCobre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybercobre/)
 * (@cybercobre)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installattion-error/#post-634550)
 * If you are hand installing wordpress, you’ll need to place the right information
   in your config.php file. I believe there are two of these in wordpress, one pointing
   to the other…but I am just going from memory and don’t look at the files on server
   that often, so don’t quote me on that. Anyway, first it needs to config.php info
   in order to connect to your MySQL. Okay?

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 1 reply
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 * Last reply from: [CyberCobre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybercobre/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installattion-error/#post-634550)
 * Status: not resolved

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