Title: install.php Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # install.php * [illrhymes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/illrhymes/) * (@illrhymes) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-4/) * when I open install.php there’s alot of jibberish on the page and I try to enter my email address twice and it doesn’t work, is my install.php file a problem one? Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-4/#post-334675) * If you see anything other than a clear well-laid out page, something went wrong. A guess is that the files have been uploaded in the wrong mode (they need to go up in ASCII mode) as that fault will cause this error. Delete the files and reupload in ASCII ? * Thread Starter [illrhymes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/illrhymes/) * (@illrhymes) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-4/#post-334790) * Thanks! I made sure that it was uploaded in ASCII unfortunately it still is the same here’s an example of the first paragraph it shows. * 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.”); require_once(‘../wp-config.php’); require_once(‘./upgrade-functions. php’); $schema = ( isset($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) && strtolower($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) == ‘on’ ) ? ‘[https://’](https://’); : ‘[http://’](http://’);; $guessurl = str_replace(‘/wp-admin/install.php?step=2’, ”, $schema . $_SERVER[‘ HTTP_HOST’] . dirname($_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]) ); if (isset($_GET[‘step’])) $step = $_GET[‘step’]; else $step = 0; header( ‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf- 8’ ); ?> * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-4/#post-334791) * If you see al that “stuff” – PHP is not running on that server. * Thread Starter [illrhymes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/illrhymes/) * (@illrhymes) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-4/#post-334793) * It’s hosted by godaddy and they said it was :S Thanks for the help though * [billsteve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billsteve/) * (@billsteve) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-4/#post-335023) * I am having the same problem. but i do not know how to upload ASCII. i hope that is the problem becuase my whole website is PHP. * thanks ^_^ * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-4/#post-335024) * Which same problem? How are you opening install.php? Through a browser pointed to it on your website, right? * [billsteve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billsteve/) * (@billsteve) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-4/#post-335025) * right. i uploaded up via FTP on IE. so when i try to open it i get all sorts of stuff. * like: * 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.”); require_once(‘../wp-config.php’); require_once(‘./upgrade-functions. php’); $schema = ( isset($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) && strtolower($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) == ‘on’ ) ? ‘[https://’](https://’); : ‘[http://’](http://’);; $guessurl = str_replace(‘/wp-admin/install.php?step=2’, ”, $schema . $_SERVER[‘ HTTP_HOST’] . dirname($_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]) ); if (isset($_GET[‘step’])) $step = $_GET[‘step’]; else $step = 0; header( ‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf- 8’ ); ?> * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-4/#post-335026) * Ah, ok. don’t do that. If you looked at your address bar, I bet it started with ftp:// instead of http:// * [billsteve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billsteve/) * (@billsteve) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-4/#post-335027) * sorry about that. yes when i click on it, it is FTP, not HTML what does that mean? * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-4/#post-335028) * it means you don’t want to “run” it that way. 🙂 * Change it to http and give it another run. Then it’ll get properly processed like a web should… * [billsteve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billsteve/) * (@billsteve) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-4/#post-335029) * I changed it from “ftp:” to “http” and it just said: page can not be found. pardon my ignorance but… what does that mean? * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-4/#post-335030) * Here, just click this: [http://fibcast.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php](http://fibcast.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php) * [billsteve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billsteve/) * (@billsteve) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-4/#post-335031) * sorry i for got to take off the extra fibcast.com because it was not ftp. thank you for all your handy work (and quick), i guess i have to fix this database problem. 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