Title: Redirect to install.php
Last modified: November 1, 2017

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# Redirect to install.php

 *  [rspendley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rspendley/)
 * (@rspendley)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-to-install-php/)
 * There have been a few times over the past few months that my site redirects to
   install.php. I can’t login through the backend and no one can access the site.
 * I inherited the site and have very little knowledge about FTP or anything like
   that (I’m an intern…), so if anyone could help walk me through what could be 
   going wrong it would be much appreciated.
 * Thank you!

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 *  Moderator [Bet Hannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bethannon1/)
 * (@bethannon1)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-to-install-php/#post-9653837)
 * Hi rspendley!
 * Did you get this figured out? It sounds like occasionally, your site is not able
   to access the content of the database. Where is the site hosted?

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## Tags

 * [install.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/install-php/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Bet Hannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bethannon1/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-to-install-php/#post-9653837)
 * Status: not resolved

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