suddenly: “It doesn’t look like you’ve installed WP yet. Try running install.ph”

in wp-config pls verify:

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘blah_wp1’);
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘blah_wp1’);
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘blahblah’);
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

if you have my sql admin access, via cpanel etc, check user, then that there are tables there, if not, restore from a backup.

Hi, I am having the same problem. Had installed and blogged for more than a week now and all of a sudden I get the message “It doesn’t look like you’ve installed WP yet. Try running install.php.”

The website is http://www.wizats.com and its hosted by dreamhost. Any help would be appreciated.

FWIW, I had to go into my MySQL WordPress db, and re-enter the siteurl value in the wp_options table. (In my case the value was http://www.digitaldani.com/blog/.) I was then able to log into WordPress.

I ran into this problem last week. I think it was caused by the Mysql server crashing before completing an operation, and corrupting a table in the database.

You can get this error message if WP can not identify a user with admin rights as explained in this thread.

I used PHP Myadmin to examine the database.

I noted that the wp_options table was marked: “In Use” on the PHP Myadmin Structure tab, even though the site was inaccessible.

It was fixed by running the following query:
mysql> repair table wp_options;

Warning: I am not an expert on this, so proceed at you own risk!