Deleting wordpress for clean reinstall – should I delete .htaccess?

  • Resolved tanjas

    (@tanjas)


    13 years, 11 months ago

    Hi, I guess the title says it all, but to give a bit of background:

    A friend and I share a site which we created and are currently modifying in our host’s WYSIWYG html editor (pitiful, I know). He installed WordPress a long time ago and played with it for a little bit but lost steam. Then I decided to give it a try, but ran into a problem that, according to Google, seemed to warrant reinstallation. (I don’t remember the problems anymore; this was a while ago. I got so discouraged that it’s taken some time to dare to try again.)

    Sooo, I deleted the wordpress folder on the site FTP, but there remains an .htaccess file in the root which I’m wondering whether I should also delete. It was last modified on the date that my friend installed WordPress.

    So, does it make sense to delete it before reinstalling WordPress?

    Thanks so much in advance for your reply!

    Yours,
    Tanja

    Edit: Oh, I remember the problem! I got Internal Server Error 500 on some (but not all) of my pages.

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  • Thread Starter tanjas

    (@tanjas)

    13 years, 11 months ago

    Update: I had the bright idea to backup the .htaccess file and then delete it. Then I uploaded the unzipped WordPress folder with the customized wp_config file again.

    However, when I go to http://mysite.com/wp-admin/install.php, it says: “You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.”

    Which database tables would these be?

    Thread Starter tanjas

    (@tanjas)

    13 years, 11 months ago

    O-kay, I searched this forum for how to clear the database tables and managed to do it. Yay me, and sorry for not searching enough in the first place!

    eneitsirk

    (@eneitsirk)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    tanjas..how you resolved the problem? can you help me? thank you..i have the same problem with you…

    donna rock

    (@donna-rock)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    I just read these posts – i am having so much trouble since updating to wordpress 3.0 I am wanting to just start over (my blog is very new) and
    completely delete wordpress from my host server. Can anyone give me step by step on what to do? I am a newby….thanks

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