PHP issue

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Hi!
I am having exactly the same problem as parijatkaul described above.
I pay for my host services thouhg, and my host help desk told me my PHP is running just fine. Still, I have the same problem every time I am trying to run wp-admin/setup-config.php.
I read all forum problem related posts, followed the install instructions carefully, but nothing works.
So, I downloaded and unzipped wordpress 3.03., opened wp-config-semple.php, changed to my databese, user name, password and database host (at some attempt even changed Authentication Unique Keys and Salts) and saved it as wp-config.php.
Then I created wordpress folder in my public_html directory and uploaded content from my unzipped wordpress folder. Now when run ftp://www.mysite.com/public_html/wordpess/wp-config.php white page appears. Then I tried ftp://www.mysite.com/public_html/wordpess/wp-admin/setup-config.php to manually add database, user name and other information needed. Before doing that I already deleted wp-config.php file as suggested on the beginning of the page. But still it doesn’t work, I am back at the same page. Than I copy paste hole content from wp-config.php file into empty dialog box on the botom of the page and that’s when I get message parijatkaul posted above. The same page appears also when I run wordpess/wp-admin/install.php
I also tried, as suggested by my host help, to upload contet directly to my public_html directory, so my page looks like public_html/wp-config.php, but it doesn’t work the same.
At the end I deleted my database and did everything from the beginning but, you already guess, the problem is still here.

Slowly, this 5 minutes install is turning into 5 days agony :/

I would rally appreciate if somebody could help! Thanks in advance!

hi parijatkaul

WordPress CMS is PHP dependent and build in PHP code. In order to run the CMS you must need first to install PHP in your server.

You can research in web on how to install PHP depending you server.

Hope that helps.

I don’t have my own server. I pay server services at local host company. They have PHP 5 enabled and running just fine, and they also say that problem I have is not related with them.

But thx for trying anyway!

If you or somebody else have some other suggestions, pleas send them!

This error message literally can -only- come up in the event that PHP is NOT running on the server, If PHP Parses the file, then you will NOT see the message.

If you right click the page, and select View Source, You will see PHP code, If PHP was enabled on your account, you would not see the PHP code.

Send your host a link to the installation script and let them look at it, and correct your account.

I made it through the installation!
I called my host help again, and we accidentally discover the error. The problem was I was typing ftp://www. all the time (as you can also see in my previous posts above). When I ran just mysite.com/index.php a page where I should enter my site name, password and install wordpress appeared.
I hope this information will help some other beginner like myself.

Thanks for the help!