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1. NixDesign
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi everyone,

   A few weeks ago I started installing Wordpress on a friend's recommendation as a good way to use it as a CMS for client sites. I've had a house move in between then and now and haven't tried to pick up from where I left off until now, and I'm in all sorts of trouble trying to understand what's going wrong.

   I originally had my host install wordpress for me, which he did, and then I uploaded the files to a sub-directory within my site similar to ../clients/clientname/wordpress files.

   I then realised I didn't want them in that folder and deleted everything and have now uploaded all the newly downloaded wp files to a new sub-directory called blog which comes off my root directory.

   I'm trying to follow the wordpress instructions as slowly and accurately as I can, but when I go to http://www.nixdesign.com.au/blog/wp-admin/install.php
   (okay there's my site too), it's saying "You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first."

   I'm using PHPMyAdmin with very limited knowledge of that, and can't seem to find any database tables to clear.

   If I try to login to http://www.nixdesign.com.au/blog/wp-login.php using all the passwords I can think of, it goes looking for the info in the original location and returns a 404 error.

   Help!

   Nicole

2. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Regardless of what folder you have wordpress files, if you are using the same database with the same prefix, WordPress will think it's already installed.

   You likely need to drop your database tables using phpMyAdmin. Here's the drop commands to paste into the SQL window in phpMyAdmin:

   DROP TABLE wp_categories;
   DROP TABLE wp_comments;
   DROP TABLE wp_linkcategories;
   DROP TABLE wp_links;
   DROP TABLE wp_options;
   DROP TABLE wp_post2cat;
   DROP TABLE wp_postmeta;
   DROP TABLE wp_posts;
   DROP TABLE wp_usermeta;
   DROP TABLE wp_users;

3. NixDesign
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanks Michael. Did that and can now get the screens as mentioned in the installation guide. Will now try again.

   Thanks

   Nicole

4. NixDesign
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   In fact, I did some searching after posting my message and came up with a lot of similar posts. Apologies for writing it again.

   You have saved me a lot of time though. A day and a half is how long I was stewing over that problem!

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