Title: Install.php error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Install.php error

 *  Resolved [zanzamar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zanzamar/)
 * (@zanzamar)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-error-4/)
 * Hi everyone…
 * This is not the first blog I install in my server, although all of them I’ve 
   installed them at root or a directory: whatever.com/blog
    This time I used a 
   subdomain comunica_TM.mensa.org.mx I started the MySQL database, as always, changed
   the config.php, etc.
 * When trying to run install.php the server said: file not found.
    I used my hosting
   browser to run it, then…
 * And this came up:
    > WordPress
 * 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/installphp-error-4/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 .’
    ‘; ?>
 * I DO have other blogs in that very same domain, but in directories, is this a
   problem?
    I’m stuck, I have no clue on what to do now :-S, any help?
 * Cinthia

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 *  [Brian Harris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zgani/)
 * (@zgani)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-error-4/#post-1166523)
 * Are you uploading via ftp or installing via cpanel script installer?
 * Was your subdomain pointing to a folder called blog in the root folder?
 * Check to see that there is no conflict of directry names.
 *  Thread Starter [zanzamar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zanzamar/)
 * (@zanzamar)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-error-4/#post-1166527)
 * Humm…
 * Ftp used: FileZilla
    To install I tried to write this in my firefox: [http://www.comunica_TM.mensa.org.mx/wp-admin/install.php](http://www.comunica_TM.mensa.org.mx/wp-admin/install.php)(
   comunica_TM is the subdomain where I uploaded the files, I…. am not sure where
   does the subdomain “points” to, how can I know that?)
 * When I hit enter I found a “page load error”
 * So I used my hosting web “file manager”, I clicked on the install.php file with
   the “open in browser” option, and I got an already installed error.
 * Cinthia
 *  Thread Starter [zanzamar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zanzamar/)
 * (@zanzamar)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-error-4/#post-1166528)
 * Um… I DO have an [http://www.mensa.org.mx/blog](http://www.mensa.org.mx/blog)
   and a blog in it, as well as others in other directories, same domain.
    I don’t
   have any other subdomain besides the new one.
 *  [Brian Harris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zgani/)
 * (@zgani)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-error-4/#post-1166531)
 * Subdomains point to a folder in the root of your host account. So if you have
   an installation at [http://www.mensa.org.mx/blog/](http://www.mensa.org.mx/blog/)
   the the subdomain will have to point to a folder other than /blog.
 * You can set up the subdomain pointing in your cpane and then upload files to 
   that folder.
 *  Thread Starter [zanzamar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zanzamar/)
 * (@zanzamar)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-error-4/#post-1166532)
 * Huh….
 * Well, while I was clicking in my subdomain -looking for OPTIONS or something 
   that looked like it- the file manager sent me to:
    [http://www.comunica_tm.mensa.org.mx](http://www.comunica_tm.mensa.org.mx)
   and the install.php automatically
 * (I’m quite scared now about it erasing my old blogs, *gulp* but it seems running)
 *  Thread Starter [zanzamar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zanzamar/)
 * (@zanzamar)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-error-4/#post-1166533)
 * Whew…. it works fine now
 * xD
 * Thanks A LOT!!!
    Cinthia
 *  Thread Starter [zanzamar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zanzamar/)
 * (@zanzamar)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-error-4/#post-1166534)
 * Oh, boy… I think I just saw what was my mistake…
 * it finds nothing when I write www….
    it seems to work fine when I don’t write
   the “www” part…
 *  [Brian Harris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zgani/)
 * (@zgani)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-error-4/#post-1166544)
 * lol duh me too, I didn’t notice that 😛
    subdomains dong have www. prefixed on
   them.
 * Glad its sorted, good luck.

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