Title: install.php don’t work
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# install.php don’t work

 *  [firstscream](https://wordpress.org/support/users/firstscream/)
 * (@firstscream)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-dont-work/)
 * Hi all,
    I have install now wordpress and I create my first database. I tell 
   my database ‘prova’ and I insert the name, login and pwd in wp_config.php but
   at the moment of I open install.php I receive that answers:
 * 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://&#8217](https://&#8217); : ‘[http://&#8217](http://&#8217);;
   $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’ ); ?>
 * I don’t know to do.
    Help me pls.

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 *  [jessetheaviator](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jessetheaviator/)
 * (@jessetheaviator)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-dont-work/#post-489609)
 * make sure you hopen that with the regular [http://www](http://www) site that 
   you have it uploaded to. dont let it try to open it under the ftp:// beginning.
   i did that, didnt work, just figured it out
 *  Thread Starter [firstscream](https://wordpress.org/support/users/firstscream/)
 * (@firstscream)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-dont-work/#post-489618)
 * my site there is in localhost, how to upload my site?
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-dont-work/#post-489619)
 * Do you have a domain and a host? You have to upload all the WP files on their
   server and do the installation there.
 * And your localhost is NOT working if you see all that code: PHP is not running.
 *  Thread Starter [firstscream](https://wordpress.org/support/users/firstscream/)
 * (@firstscream)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-dont-work/#post-489621)
 * Sorry but i’m an inexpert user, can you help me about of version of php and how
   to install it?
    I use microsoft windows XP sp2. Thank’s
 *  [Phil Johnston](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnstonphilip/)
 * (@johnstonphilip)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-dont-work/#post-489624)
 * I think you’d need access to your server and SSH in order to install php or any
   other server-side scripting language.
 * You could try emailing your host and asking them to install it.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-dont-work/#post-489638)
 * Installing WP on your own computer (=localhost) and installing WP on a host server
   are two different things!
    Please, don’t mix them.
 * For your WP blog to work on a host server, you don’t need to have WP installed
   on your computer.
 * There is a lot of good documentation about installing WordPress:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress)
   Read it carefully, and the provided links, too.

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 * Last reply from: [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-dont-work/#post-489638)
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