Title: install.php giving some problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# install.php giving some problem

 *  [ambuj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ambuj/)
 * (@ambuj)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-giving-some-problem/)
 * I did..
 * # Unzip the package in an empty directory.
    # Open up wp-config-sample.php with
   a text editor like WordPad or similar and fill in your database connection details.#
   Save the file as wp-config.php
 * I changed just three thinfs in wp-config.php
 * define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’);
 * /** MySQL database username */
    define(‘DB_USER’, ‘myusername’);
 * /** MySQL database password */
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘mypassword’);
 * – Created a database in MYSQL named “wordpress”
    – Opened /wp-admin/install.php
 * it’s giving below error..
 * ………………………………………..
 * ‘.__(‘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) $_POST[‘
   blog_public’] : 0; // check e-mail address if (empty($admin_email)) { // TODO:
   poka-yoke die(‘
 * ‘.__(“ERROR: you must provide an e-mail address.”).’
    ‘); } else if (!is_email(
   $admin_email)) { // TODO: poka-yoke die(‘
 * ‘.__(‘ERROR: that isn’t a valid e-mail address. E-mail addresses look like: [username@example.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-giving-some-problem/username@example.com?output_format=md)’).’
   ‘);}
   $wpdb->show_errors(); $result = wp_install($weblog_title, ‘admin’, $admin_email,
   $public); extract($result, EXTR_SKIP); ?>
 *  admin
 * ‘.__(‘Note that password carefully! It is a random password that was generated
   just for you.’).”; ?>
 * ………………………………………….
 * Please tell me where I’m going wrong?

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-giving-some-problem/)
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