Title: Step One
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Step One

 *  [ryantrojan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryantrojan/)
 * (@ryantrojan)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/step-one/)
 * I realize many of you have seeen this question posted before, and I have tried
   searching and reading other threads, but they haven’t helped.
 * I have followed the installation instructions to the letter.
 * Unzipped to dektop folder wordpress. Edit wp-config-sample with the following:
 * define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘kayrell_notstudying’); // The name of the database
    define(‘
   DB_USER’, ‘kayrell_admin’); // Your MySQL username define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘****’);//…
   and password define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to 
   change this value
 * saved as wp-config.php
 * Then I uploaded the entire folder.
    I added the user to the database.
 * However, when I run the install I get the following:
 * 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’);
 * $guessurl = str_replace(‘/wp-admin/install.php?step=2’, ”, ‘[http://&#8217](http://&#8217);.
   $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . dirname($_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]) );
 * if (isset($_GET[‘step’]))
    $step = $_GET[‘step’]; else $step = 0; header( ‘Content-
   Type: text/html; charset=utf-8’ ); ?>
 * This is followed by the WordPress logo and then this:
    hide_errors(); $installed
   = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM $wpdb->users”); if ($installed) die(__(‘ 
   Already Installed
 * You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your
   old database tables first.
    ‘) . ”); $wpdb->show_errors();
 * switch($step) {
 *  case 0:
    ?>
 * ReadMe documentation at your leisure.’), ‘../readme.html’); ?>
 * Then there is a bunch of code after that.
 * I am fairly new to all of this. My server is Freewebhosts.net which is running
   PHP version 4.3.11 and MySQL version 4.0.24.
 * Any suggestions on how to get WordPress installed would be most appreciated. 
   Thanks.

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/step-one/#post-235146)
 * That would happen if the file is not being seen as a PHP document. Are you sure
   PHP is enabled on your server? Did you upload the php files as ASCII, or as binary(
   which cause problems on occasion)?
 * Try this: create a text file called test.php, and in it paste this:
 * `<?php
    echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>
 * Upload this to your blog root, and then access it in your browser. If PHP is 
   running it should display the file path. If not, you’ll get a blank page, though
   you’ll see the code above in the page source.
 *  Thread Starter [ryantrojan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryantrojan/)
 * (@ryantrojan)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/step-one/#post-235281)
 * Thank you for your help. I created the test file and uploaded it to my public_html
   directory. It worked, which told me that I needed to put the word press folders
   in the public html folder as well.
 * Now, all I need is a better free host. Thanks!

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
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 * Last reply from: [ryantrojan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryantrojan/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/step-one/#post-235281)
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