Title: installing 5 mins ??
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# installing 5 mins ??

 *  [gdlx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gdlx/)
 * (@gdlx)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-5-mins/)
 * Hi I would begrateful for hrelp on the following:
 * Installation: Famous 5-minute install
 * I thought i did what the below stated but I got this:
 * please advise thanks in advance
 * ERROR: %s’), $error); ?>
 * checked=”checked” />
 * ‘.__(‘Already Installed’).’
 * ‘.__(‘You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear
   your old database tables first.’).’
    ‘);} switch($step) { case 0: case 1: // 
   in case people are directly linking to this display_header(); ?>
 * 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) ) wp_die($wpdb->error->get_error_message()); display_header(); // Fill
   in the data we gathered $weblog_title = isset($_POST[‘weblog_title’]) ? stripslashes(
   $_POST[‘weblog_title’]) : ”; $admin_email = isset($_POST[‘admin_email’]) ? stripslashes(
   $_POST[‘admin_email’]) : ”; $public = isset($_POST[‘blog_public’]) ? (int) $_POST[‘
   blog_public’] : 0; // check e-mail address $error = false; if (empty($admin_email)){//
   TODO: poka-yoke display_setup_form( __(‘you must provide an e-mail address.’));
   $error = true; } else if (!is_email($admin_email)) { // TODO: poka-yoke display_setup_form(
   __(‘that isn’t a valid e-mail address. E-mail addresses look like: [username@example.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-5-mins/username@example.com?output_format=md)’));
   $error = true; } if ( $error === false ) { $wpdb->show_errors(); $result = wp_install(
   $weblog_title, ‘admin’, $admin_email, $public); extract($result, EXTR_SKIP); ?
   >
 *  admin
    ‘. $password .’ ‘; } echo ‘
 * ‘. $password_message .’
    ‘; ?>
 *  1. Unzip the package in an empty directory.
    2. Open up wp-config-sample.php
   with a text editor like WordPad or similar and fill in your database connection
   details. 3. Save the file as wp-config.php 4. Upload everything. 5. Open /wp-
   admin/install.php in your browser. This should setup the tables needed for your
   blog. If there is an error, double check your wp-config.php file, and try again.
   If it fails again, please go to the support forums with as much data as you can
   gather. 6. Note the password given to you. 7. The install script should then 
   send you to the login page. Sign in with the username admin and the password 
   generated during the installation. You can then click on ‘Profile’ to change 
   the password.

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-5-mins/#post-1222436)
 * Make sure your host is running PHP.
 * Make sure you use ASCII mode when uploading files to your remote host.
 * Related:
    [Hosting_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Hosting_WordPress) [Uploading WordPress to a remote host](http://codex.wordpress.org/Uploading_WordPress_to_a_remote_host)
 *  [fxtrader1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fxtrader1/)
 * (@fxtrader1)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-5-mins/#post-1222509)
 * I am experiencing something similar.
 * My host is running PHP, and I’ve checked and triple checked my config file. This
   may be a lame question, but in the Read Me doc when it says “upload everything”
   what is that referring to?
 * This is the message I received:
    ERROR: %s’), $error); ?>
 * checked=”checked” />
 * ‘.__(‘Already Installed’).’
 * ‘.__(‘You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear
   your old database tables first.’).’
    ‘);} switch($step) { case 0: case 1: // 
   in case people are directly linking to this display_header(); ?>
 * 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) ) wp_die($wpdb->error->get_error_message()); display_header(); // Fill
   in the data we gathered $weblog_title = isset($_POST[‘weblog_title’]) ? stripslashes(
   $_POST[‘weblog_title’]) : ”; $admin_email = isset($_POST[‘admin_email’]) ? stripslashes(
   $_POST[‘admin_email’]) : ”; $public = isset($_POST[‘blog_public’]) ? (int) $_POST[‘
   blog_public’] : 0; // check e-mail address $error = false; if (empty($admin_email)){//
   TODO: poka-yoke display_setup_form( __(‘you must provide an e-mail address.’));
   $error = true; } else if (!is_email($admin_email)) { // TODO: poka-yoke display_setup_form(
   __(‘that isn’t a valid e-mail address. E-mail addresses look like: [username@example.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-5-mins/username@example.com?output_format=md)’));
   $error = true; } if ( $error === false ) { $wpdb->show_errors(); $result = wp_install(
   $weblog_title, ‘admin’, $admin_email, $public); extract($result, EXTR_SKIP); ?
   >
 *  admin
    ‘. $password .’ ‘; } echo ‘
 * ‘. $password_message .’
    ‘; ?>
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-5-mins/#post-1222513)
 * > when it says “upload everything” what is that referring to?
 * Please review [Installing WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress)
   and [Uploading WordPress to a remote host](http://codex.wordpress.org/Uploading_WordPress_to_a_remote_host).
 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-5-mins/#post-1222516)
 * You are both seeing raw PHP. That shouldn’t happen. The parser has gone wrong
   somewhere. Corrupt files can do that, which seems to me to explain MichaelH’s
   advice. I’d advise the same thing as a start to solving this.
 *  Thread Starter [gdlx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gdlx/)
 * (@gdlx)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-5-mins/#post-1222534)
 * Upload everything where – my webhosting page ?
 *  yours ?
 * after these coros i presume mine, and that does have php
 * ASCII mode – where how what ??
 * corrupt files – only followed instructions ???
 * thanks in advance
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-5-mins/#post-1222545)
 * On your host, delete the WordPress files, except for wp-config.php, then reupload
   the files (these would be the files you extracted from the downloaded zip file)
   with your FTP client. making sure to use ASCII file transfer mode.
 *  [jorgeorlando](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jorgeorlando/)
 * (@jorgeorlando)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-5-mins/#post-1222597)
 * What is needed are simple and clear instructions! I have years of experience 
   with websites and programming. This WordPress install is a frustrating experience.
   The “Famous 5 minutes install” is a cruel joke…
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-5-mins/#post-1222600)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress#Installation](http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress#Installation)
 * years of experience with websites and programming, but not so much with reading.

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