install.php

If you see anything other than a clear well-laid out page, something went wrong. A guess is that the files have been uploaded in the wrong mode (they need to go up in ASCII mode) as that fault will cause this error.
Delete the files and reupload in ASCII ?

Thanks!
I made sure that it was uploaded in ASCII unfortunately it still is the same here’s an example of the first paragraph it shows.

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’); $schema = ( isset($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) && strtolower($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) == ‘on’ ) ? ‘https://’ : ‘https://’; $guessurl = str_replace(‘/wp-admin/install.php?step=2’, ”, $schema . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . dirname($_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]) ); if (isset($_GET[‘step’])) $step = $_GET[‘step’]; else $step = 0; header( ‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8’ ); ?>

If you see al that “stuff” – PHP is not running on that server.

It’s hosted by godaddy and they said it was :S
Thanks for the help though

I am having the same problem. but i do not know how to upload ASCII. i hope that is the problem becuase my whole website is PHP.

thanks ^_^

Which same problem? How are you opening install.php? Through a browser pointed to it on your website, right?

right. i uploaded up via FTP on IE. so when i try to open it i get all sorts of stuff.

like:

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’); $schema = ( isset($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) && strtolower($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) == ‘on’ ) ? ‘https://’ : ‘https://’; $guessurl = str_replace(‘/wp-admin/install.php?step=2’, ”, $schema . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . dirname($_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]) ); if (isset($_GET[‘step’])) $step = $_GET[‘step’]; else $step = 0; header( ‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8’ ); ?>

Ah, ok. don’t do that. If you looked at your address bar, I bet it started with ftp:// instead of https://

sorry about that. yes when i click on it, it is FTP, not HTML
what does that mean?

it means you don’t want to “run” it that way. ??

Change it to http and give it another run. Then it’ll get properly processed like a web should…

I changed it from “ftp:” to “http” and it just said: page can not be found. pardon my ignorance but… what does that mean?

Here, just click this: https://fibcast.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

sorry i for got to take off the extra fibcast.com because it was not ftp. thank you for all your handy work (and quick), i guess i have to fix this database problem.