After reinstalling WordPress (2.7) I’m stuck with errors and blank pages?!

  • Scrutineer

    (@scrutineer)


    15 years, 3 months ago

    Um, I’m so loathed to appear like I’m completely useless…

    But, I’m new to WordPress; so I did a trial run with it a couple of months ago, and then, when I thought I’d got the hang of it (which I did), I deleted it (with Fetch) from my site, so that I could start afresh.

    Since doing a fresh install though, I can’t get it working at all!
    When I click the link my hosting company sent me

    I get this message:
    WordPress – Already Installed
    You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.

    And there’s no way of getting into the fresh WordPress – the initial page is entirely blank, and the dashboard/admin link tells me: The requested URL /wp-login.php was not found on this server.

    (I was expecting access to a new admin page at least?!, but it appears to show traces of my previous test attempt (DW written in top corner):

    I’ve configured the wp-config.php file with the correct database info, yet, any attempt I make to get in through a back door just errors

    Do my database tables need clearing (i.e. do I need to get my hosting company to do something?) – or is it my WordPress installation that’s glitchy?
    I’ve combed the WordPress forums, but they’re all a bit technically confusing…

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  • Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    you either need to drop all tables in database or create another database
    you can use phpmyadmin in host control panel to drop tables

    Thread Starter Scrutineer

    (@scrutineer)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    Thank you Samboll,

    presumably my hosting company have to do that – since I don’t have access to a host control panel… or phpmyadmin

    I’ll ask them to sort it for me

    Rachael

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