Title: Installing wordpress not working
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# Installing wordpress not working

 *  [mableism](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mableism/)
 * (@mableism)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-not-working/)
 * Hi, trying to manually install wordpress, created a database with my hosting 
   control page, have the files uploaded to the root folder of the domain, have 
   tried the 5 minute install both manually configuring the wp-config.php and letting
   it do it for me, have checked all the details many times and am pretty sure they
   are correct…
    When I try to get up [http://mywebsite.net/wp-admin/install.php](http://mywebsite.net/wp-admin/install.php)
   I get page not found errors.
 * I have hosting with 123-reg and you can also install wordpress directly as an
   app, through them, I tried this first off but this did not work either, it would
   not let me log in through the admin page and the main page was not showing up
   correctly?
 * When I spoke to them about it they said that it was the use of sub-folders that
   was the problem and recommended that a manual install would be better. I have
   the hosting package on the main domain, with the domain I am trying to install
   wordpress to mapped to another folder, could there be a problem there? Any ideas
   would be appreciated! It’s probably a silly mistake as I am quite new to wp but
   I have tried everything else 🙂

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 *  [fonglh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fonglh/)
 * (@fonglh)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-not-working/#post-2988467)
 * >  with the domain I am trying to install wordpress to mapped to another folder,
 * Then you need to install WordPress into that folder.
 *  Thread Starter [mableism](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mableism/)
 * (@mableism)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-not-working/#post-2988468)
 * Yep it is installed in that folder as the root of that domain…
 *  [fonglh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fonglh/)
 * (@fonglh)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-not-working/#post-2988546)
 * When did you configure the domain name to point to your host?
 *  [RichardWPG](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richardwpg/)
 * (@richardwpg)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-not-working/#post-2988624)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress)

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 * [installation error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installation-error/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [RichardWPG](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richardwpg/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-not-working/#post-2988624)
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