• I had an error when wordpress was first uploaded to my site, so I deleted everything from my FTP and tried to start again. I finally got to where you do the fifth step:

    5.Open /wp-admin/install.php in your browser. This should setup the tables needed for your blog. If there is an error, double check your wp-config.php file, and try again. If it fails again, please go to the support forums with as much data as you can gather.

    and get this notice:

    You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.

    Where do I find the old database tables to remove them?

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  • i newbie here…

    i have the same query…

    Where do I find the old database tables to remove them?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    You’ll have to access the database through your hosting provider’s control panel. Some offer a generic “MySQL Databases” section, others offer phpMyAdmin. If you can’t find either of those, ask your hosting provider.

    Hi!

    I get this error when installing wordpress:

    >
    WordPress

    ERROR: %s’), $error); ?>

    />

    ‘.__(‘Already Installed’).’

    ‘.__(‘You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.’).’
    ‘);} $php_version = phpversion(); $mysql_version = $wpdb->db_version(); $php_compat = version_compare( $php_version, $required_php_version, ‘>=’ ); $mysql_compat = version_compare( $mysql_version, $required_mysql_version, ‘>=’ ) || file_exists( WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/db.php’ ); if ( !$mysql_compat && !$php_compat ) $compat = sprintf( __(‘You cannot install because WordPress %1$s requires PHP version %2$s or higher and MySQL version %3$s or higher. You are running PHP version %4$s and MySQL version %5$s.’), $wp_version, $required_php_version, $required_mysql_version, $php_version, $mysql_version ); elseif ( !$php_compat ) $compat = sprintf( __(‘You cannot install because WordPress %1$s requires PHP version %2$s or higher. You are running version %3$s.’), $wp_version, $required_php_version, $php_version ); elseif ( !$mysql_compat ) $compat = sprintf( __(‘You cannot install because WordPress %1$s requires MySQL version %2$s or higher. You are running version %3$s.’), $wp_version, $required_mysql_version, $mysql_version ); if ( !$mysql_compat || !$php_compat ) { display_header(); die(‘
    ‘ . __(‘Insufficient Requirements’) . ‘

    ‘ . $compat . ‘
    ‘); } switch($step) { case 0: case 1: // in case people are directly linking to this display_header(); ?>

    ReadMe documentation at your leisure. Otherwise, just fill in the information below and you’ll be on your way to using the most extendable and powerful personal publishing platform in the world.’), ‘../readme.html’); ?>

    error) ) wp_die($wpdb->error->get_error_message()); display_header(); // Fill in the data we gathered $weblog_title = isset($_POST[‘weblog_title’]) ? stripslashes($_POST[‘weblog_title’]) : ”; $admin_email = isset($_POST[‘admin_email’]) ? stripslashes($_POST[‘admin_email’]) : ”; $public = isset($_POST[‘blog_public’]) ? (int) $_POST[‘blog_public’] : 0; // check e-mail address $error = false; if (empty($admin_email)) { // TODO: poka-yoke display_setup_form( __(‘you must provide an e-mail address.’) ); $error = true; } else if (!is_email($admin_email)) { // TODO: poka-yoke display_setup_form( __(‘that isn’t a valid e-mail address. E-mail addresses look like: username@example.com’) ); $error = true; } if ( $error === false ) { $wpdb->show_errors(); $result = wp_install($weblog_title, ‘admin’, $admin_email, $public); extract($result, EXTR_SKIP); ?>

    admin
    ‘. $password .’
    ‘; } echo ‘

    ‘. $password_message .’
    ‘; ?>

    This is not the first wordpress I install… I already created a new php database and changed the data in config.php file -so, I do pretty much have a “clean” database-
    I don’t know what else to do…

    HELP!

    Forget it…

    it works now (!!!)

    ZAnZAMAR

    How did you resolve your problem? can you help me too.. i have the same problem with you.. thank you.

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