Title: WordPress Instillation Error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress Instillation Error

 *  [JyoNah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jyonah/)
 * (@jyonah)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-instillation-error/)
 * So I attempted a manual install of wordpress (unfortunately, I didn’t realize
   the files I was working with were the old version until it was too late, so its
   2.9.2)
 * I thought I did it right, but here is the error I get.
    _ Parse error: syntax
   error, unexpected T\_STRING in /homepages/14/d267669996/htdocs/wp/wp-config.php
   on line 31

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-instillation-error/#post-1551241)
 * Replied by Twitter, but to elaborate:
 * This is usually caused by a file corruption or something going weird with the
   install. Download a fresh copy of WP (may as well grab 3.0 😉 yeah?) and try 
   that.
 * Or … what’s on line 31 of wp-config.php? If you can post the whole wp-config (
   editing your passwords and hash info o’course), it could be as simple as an extra;
   out there.

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-instillation-error/#post-1551241)
 * Status: not resolved

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