Title: My installation problems…
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# My installation problems…

 *  [RoscoHead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roscohead/)
 * (@roscohead)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/my-installation-problems/)
 * I installed as per the 5 minute instructions, and the first thing that happened
   was at the top of each install step page I got the following:
 * WordPress database error: [Table ‘breng.wp_options’ doesn’t exist]
    SELECT option_value
   FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = ‘permalink_structure’
 * WordPress database error: [Table ‘breng.wp_options’ doesn’t exist]
    SELECT option_value
   FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = ‘category_base’
 * WordPress database error: [Table ‘breng.wp_options’ doesn’t exist]
    SELECT option_value
   FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = ‘siteurl’
 * WordPress database error: [Table ‘breng.wp_options’ doesn’t exist]
    SELECT option_value
   FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = ‘hack_file’
 * WordPress database error: [Table ‘breng.wp_options’ doesn’t exist]
    SELECT option_value
   FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = ‘active_plugins’
 * WordPress database error: [Table ‘breng.wp_options’ doesn’t exist]
    SELECT option_value
   FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = ‘template’
 * I figured that was strange, but it all seemed to work anyway, the database was
   created, I got my admin password, and logged in successfully. But on the admin
   dashboard [http://www.br-eng.info/words/wp-admin/](http://www.br-eng.info/words/wp-admin/)
   all the links are relative to /, instead of /words, where I installed it to. 
   So none of them work. Same on the main blog page [http://www.br-eng.info/words/](http://www.br-eng.info/words/)
 * If I manually type in the URL, adding the words/ directory, they all work, but
   all the links are wrong. I didn’t change the line in wp-config.php that sets 
   ABSPATH, so what’s happening?
 * PHP 4.3.10
    MySQL 4.0.22
 * Thanks for any help.

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/my-installation-problems/#post-194542)
 * Windows server ?
    Got phpmyadmin ? head in and alter the siteurl / home values
   [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/)
 * Seen this happen before and the above cures it 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [RoscoHead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roscohead/)
 * (@roscohead)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/my-installation-problems/#post-194602)
 * Hi thanks,
 * I found the siteurl value and fixed it which seems to have fixed the problem,
   but your page also mentions the home value, and your images aren’t displaying,
   so I’m not sure what value should go in there (mine is currently blank).

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/my-installation-problems/#post-194602)
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