The very begining steps…

youre at the wrong forum.

See https://wordpress.com/forums/

You want this: https://wordpress.com/forums/

Your blog is installed and apparently working, and hosted by wordpress.com. If you later decided to get hosting with your own domain, you will need to install WordPress, and then this will be the place to come for help.

I have followed the suggested resolution without success. The following is the complete error message I received:
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’ ); ?>

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’); ?>

That sort of error dreck generally indicates you need to contact your host about whether php is installed, and if not, could they please install it or if it is, what version….

After following the directions on the host site this is what I got regarding the version of php:

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\froman\fcharset0 Times New Roman;}{\f1\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}} {\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.15.1507;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\sb100\sa100\f0\fs24 \par \par \par \par \par \par \par \par \pard\f1\fs20\par }

thats a file that you created in word and uploaded.

thats NOT helpful information.

I liked your original reply better. ??

Whew … I thought I was supposed to know what that meant. I’ve been viewing the post on “gate.com” and am getting the impression that there are quite a few problem resolutions that don’t help. Guess I’ll have to use the land line support. Thanks anyway.

sneaky! I wanted to be nice, and besides this thread wasnt going anywhere.