Title: Multiple installation problem?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Multiple installation problem?

 *  [magdelaine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/magdelaine/)
 * (@magdelaine)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-installation-problem/)
 * I’m trying to install a second version of WordPress on my testing server. I want
   to start with a clean installation and database to troubleshoot issues I’m having
   with a plugin. I have placed the WordPress files in a new directory, created 
   a database, and created the config.php file. When I try to access intall.php,
   however, the result that I get is a mess. The example below is just the first
   paragraph:
 * >  `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://' : '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' ); ?>`
 * My PHP is working, and just in case it is the other installation that was causing
   problems, I moved that folder off of my server. I thought I would check with 
   you all before I go to the trouble of removing the other WP database, etc.
 * Do you have any idea what is going on?

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 *  Thread Starter [magdelaine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/magdelaine/)
 * (@magdelaine)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-installation-problem/#post-423269)
 * It occurred to me: in order for install.php to function properly, does register_globals
   need to be set to “on”? It is currently set to off.
 * Edit: Register_globals in now on, didn’t fix the problem.
 *  Thread Starter [magdelaine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/magdelaine/)
 * (@magdelaine)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-installation-problem/#post-423274)
 * It might help to know that I’m running Xampp on XP2 and my other installation
   is one that I copied directly from my hosting server.
 *  [ladydelaluna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladydelaluna/)
 * (@ladydelaluna)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-installation-problem/#post-423282)
 * it’s supposed to be that you edited the wp-config.php file – you said up there
   that it was the config.php file – might that be your issue? if so, rename it,
   and try again…
 *  Thread Starter [magdelaine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/magdelaine/)
 * (@magdelaine)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-installation-problem/#post-423319)
 * No that wasn’t it… Sorry I was sloppy when I described what I did.
 * I know now it is NOT a multiple installation problem. I now have two versions
   running on my test server; the old one and the new one. But I don’t believe what
   I had to do in order to get it to work…
 * Since I was successful at moving a blog from my webhost to my local server, I
   went back to the host and used their tool to install and configure a WP install(
   2.02). I then copied the installation and the database to my local server and
   made the required changes, but even then I was getting a header error from the
   default template’s function.php file. So, now desperate, I copied the files for
   WP 2.03 over the installation, emptied the database, and what do you know? Install
   php actually functioned and I got my new blog going.
 * I would really really like to know what error occured the first time so that 
   I can avoid it… so if anyone knows??

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 * Last reply from: [magdelaine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/magdelaine/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-installation-problem/#post-423319)
 * Status: not resolved

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