Title: Install.php not seeing wp-config.php
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Install.php not seeing wp-config.php

 *  [downbylaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/downbylaw/)
 * (@downbylaw)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-not-seeing-wp-configphp/)
 * Well, the title says it all, really.
    The file is indeed there, in the root directory.
   If I try running setup-config.php instead, it doesn’t run and only does a text
   dump of the content of the file. My web hosting does have the minimum requirement
   and I did create a database. I’m a really confused newbie… Help? Steph

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 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-not-seeing-wp-configphp/#post-100752)
 * Are you installing WP in the root also? The wp-config.php file should live in
   the root of the WP install and if the WP install is in a subdirectory, then THAT
   is where wp-config should be. I know just enough to be dangerous, but I do have
   a few WP installs under my belt.
    The biggest obstacle seems to be that pesky
   wp-config.php file. Double check the information there. Make sure that you assign
   a user to your database. It’s not enough to create the new database and the new
   user; MySQL does not automatically link them. This must be done manually, usually
   in PHPMyAdmin.
 *  [lemonyfresh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lemonyfresh/)
 * (@lemonyfresh)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-not-seeing-wp-configphp/#post-100753)
 * you definitely changed it from wp-cofig-sample.php to wp-config.php ?
 *  [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/)
 * (@nuclearmoose)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-not-seeing-wp-configphp/#post-100759)
 * [http://wiki.wordpress.org/5MinuteInstallation/wp-config.php](http://wiki.wordpress.org/5MinuteInstallation/wp-config.php)
   may help you.
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-not-seeing-wp-configphp/#post-101209)
 * Fatal error: Failed opening required ‘/home/httpd/www/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-settings.
   php’ (include_path=”) in /home/httpd/www/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-config.php on 
   line 31
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-not-seeing-wp-configphp/#post-101210)
 * Where is your ‘index.php’ ?
    Into which directory have you installed or do you
   want to install it into ?
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-not-seeing-wp-configphp/#post-101211)
 * I ‘ve had no luck to make it run.
    [http://xxxx/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-admin/install.php](http://xxxx/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-admin/install.php)
   ^^^^^^^^ it looks like install.php is getting redirect one level too far — to
   nonexisting directory.

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