Title: Parse Error at Step 5
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Parse Error at Step 5

 *  [taliessin1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taliessin1/)
 * (@taliessin1)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-at-step-5/)
 * I am installing wordpress for the first time and I am receiving the following
   message when I try to execute step 5: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING
   in /home/content/t/a/l/taliessin1/html/wp-config.php on line 46
 * I have gone back into my wp-config.php file to check line 46 and I can’t find
   any of this text. What do I do to fix this? I have no idea where to begin.

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-at-step-5/#post-1442383)
 * Be sure you have no whitespace or extra spaces in wp-config and that you have
   all the single quote marks in place: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php](http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php)

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## Tags

 * [parse-error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/parse-error/)
 * [syntax error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/syntax-error/)
 * [T_STRING](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/t_string/)

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 * Last reply from: [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-at-step-5/#post-1442383)
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