reinstall error “Already Installed”

  • lukehunt

    (@lukehunt)


    16 years, 9 months ago

    I thought it would be easy to reinstall wordpress and in the process update to 2.8.4. But I get the following error:

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

    I deleted the database from my server and added a new one, but that didn’t help. So I tried reinstalling version 2.7 again.

    I tried to delete all the wordpress files, but my guess is I’m missing one that tells the installer that I’ve already installed WordPress. I’m guessing this because even when I don’t change the wp-config file (so the installer doesn’t have my login or database name) I still get the already installed error.

    I’ve searched the Forum, but cannot find anything. Please Help! Thanks.

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  • Thread Starter lukehunt

    (@lukehunt)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    This checker looks like my problem:
    I cleared the browser’s cache with no luck.
    So far, I haven’t found where the wp cache is, and searching the forums for “clear cache” hasn’t helped….
    any advice??

    is_blog_installed() X-Ref
    Test whether blog is already installed.

    The cache will be checked first. If you have a cache plugin, which saves the
    cache values, then this will work. If you use the default WordPress cache,
    and the database goes away, then you might have problems.

    Checks for the option siteurl for whether WordPress is installed.

    return: bool Whether blog is already installed.

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