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1. strixy
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I found the instructions on upgrading from 1.5 to 2.0 to be well written and easy to follow. I was, however, unsucessful.

   After running wp-admin/upgrade.php I navigated through the process to the "step 1" page, no problem. After clicking on the "Have Fun!" link I was redirected to my main page. (as I should be).

   What I saw was a white page with, "It doesn't look like you've installed WP yet. Try running install.php."

   If I do click on the "try running install.php" link I get the "You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first." page. Which I would hope I get, so that's good news.

   After surfing through the pages and help files, codex and Google I discovered some info on editing the database directly to make some changes concerning site_url and home. And yes, those were wonky and I made the appropriate changes.

   Still no joy.

   I read each post in the forum here concerning updating.

   No joy.

   I searched the forums here, and again, no joy.

   I tried to re-upgrade twice. No joy.

   I've checked and double checked file permissions. I've deleted install.php. I've manually edited the config.php file.

   I am running my own server on a Linux/Ubuntu/Debian distro with Apache 2.0.54, MySql Ver 12.22 Distrib 4.0.24, and PHP 5.0.5.

   This configuration worked well with WP 1.5.0

   I didn't run any plugins and I didn't have any personal hacks (on this server or this install anyway).

   I'm stumped and posting in a forum. How hard up can I be?

2. strixy
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Fixed! I don't know the solution or what the problem was, but I downloaded the .tar file again, unpacked it again, reupgraded again and it worked. I wonder if it was just a corrupted download?

3. moshu
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Most likely, yes. It easily happens to any of us :)

4. bgoddess
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Hi,

   This question may sound silly... but shouldn't the update just one click away from fantastico cpanel. It was usually the case from 1.2 to 1.5.2.

   I check my fantastico installation and it says I'm running the latest 2.10.2 r5. But I don't seem link prompt on my fantastico cpanel.

   Is this (one click update on cpanel) no longer hold true?

   I've a couple of blogs that have quite alot of entries and I fear if I would to delete the 1.5.2v wp files and then upload the v2.0, I might delete some other stuff.

   Please advise
   Thanks

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