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1. rthorne
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi all,
   This is my first question about WP. However I am sure it is not the last :).

   Here is my problem.

   I have a couple of blogs that are working fine. Yesterday I set up a new one and than changed my mind about a subdomain that I wanted to install it in.

   These are the steps I took to uninstall it:

   1.) I removed the subdomain from cpanel
   2.) I removed the add on domain from cpanel
   3.) I deleted both the subdomain and the addon domain folders from cpanel
   4.) I than tried to uninstall WP using fantastico (I know now that I should have made this my first step because it couldn't find the necessary file to automatically uninstall). So I unintalled Wp using the manual instructions by deleting the mysql database and mysql user.

   Once finished I tried to reinstall. This is what I did.

   1.)Created the add on domain in cpanel
   2.)Created the sub domain in cpanel
   3.)Tried to use fantastico to reinstall wordpress

   This is the error I am getting

   Install WordPress (2/3)

   The installation can not be completed:

   - You cannot install more than one script in the root directory of a domain.

   Click on the browser's Back button to fix reported errors.

   I did this twice now and I am sure that both directories (addon domain and subdomain) were deleted from cpanel.

   I recreate them and try to install wordpress and get the above error message.

   Any help would be greatly appreciated,

   rthorne

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Might also have to delete the database that was used.

3. rthorne
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   By database, do you mean the SQL database? If so I already deleted it plus the username.

   Any other suggestions?

   Thanks In Advance,

   rthorne

4. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   You also must delete the files in the root that reference fantastico set up - fantver.php and fantfiles.txt - or something like that.

5. rthorne
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   If I delete those files, will it affect my other blogs that I have installed?

   Thanks,

   rthorne

6. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Back them up 1st (*if you used fantastico on all installs), but it shouldn't affect anything - it's just a way of keeping track. Of course you will need to install future blogs manually (you should anyway) or you will confuse the system again.

7. BernardBorealis
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   This is a fantastico problem. Using cPanel, you should have a folder called .fantasticodata or something like that (in your home directory, most likely). This is a hidden folder, so you'll have to enable viewing hidden files. Within that folder there should be a folder named WordPress. Inside of there look for a file by the name of your domain. Delete that file. Also in the .fantasticodata folder look for a file named something like installed_in_root.php, edit that file and you'll find a line that says something like: $installed_in_root["domain.com"] = 1; Just set the 1 to a 0.

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