“It doesn’t look like you’ve installed WP yet”

  • I keep getting the above error message when I try running WordPress/wp-admin/install.php on my remote server. Actually the complete text is:
    It doesn’t look like you’ve installed WP yet. Try running install.php.
    The “install.php” link is to
    Wordpress/wp-admin/wp-admin/install.php
    which doesn’t exist.
    Any ideas?
    —Scott

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  • Thread Starter Anonymous

    Actually, I found the other thread which seems to address this issue, but can’t seem to make things work by modifying wp-settings.php. If I bypass using $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’] in wp-settings.php (which is a null string, by the way), replacing it with the variable containing the name of the install.php script, the process makes it through wp-settings.php, but chokes and gives me all sorts of database errors involving “Table not found” and I can’t get past step 1 of the install.
    —Scott

    If anon 1 has posted right then the uri is wrong. wp-admin is repeated (occurs twice)

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    No, that’s really the URL that shows up. I’m currently have the same problem. I took a screenshot of the problem. The info window is after I ‘right-click>properties’ on the link.
    https://www.pixelshaft.net/wperror.jpg
    If anyone knows how to fix this, I would be very grateful.

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    Well, I finally just uninstalled wordpress 1.2 and tried installing version 1.0.2. No problems.
    The issue appeared to involve the use of $_SERVER variables in wp-settings.php in version 1.2. In version 1.0.2, there are multiple differences in the wp-settings.php file, including the use of variables in the older form of $HTTP_SERVER_VARS.
    Looks like I’ll be using version 1.0.2 until folks in development fix the 1.2 bug.
    —Scott

    I think this is the problem:
    My version of PHP is 4.0.6, but version 4.1 is required. Maybe 4.1 supports the $_SERVER variables?
    Can anyone confirm this?
    —Scott

    Yes samething for me. My webhost is using PHP is 4.0.6.
    Is this a show stopper here?

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    Yes I have the same problem and the same version of PHP. How do we get a definitive answer here?

    got the same problem on my other server ??

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    Ugh… just changed hosts and now WP doesn’t work… PHP 4.06 like the rest… who can help? Or do I have to change SW?

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