Title: Already installed error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Already installed error

 *  [simplycolette](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simplycolette/)
 * (@simplycolette)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/already-installed-error-4/)
 * Hi I’m new to wordpress so forgive if the terminology is wrong
    I’m running Mac
   OS 10.6 and I just want to install wordpress locally, just to function on a test
   site. My site [http://simplycolette.com](http://simplycolette.com) is working
   fine.
 * I’m having trouble following the documentation. I was following this: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP)
   and got to step 4 which leads me to do: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Famous_5-Minute_Install](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Famous_5-Minute_Install)
 * If I want to do this all locally what is the dbusername, username, and password
   to fill in the wp-config.php file?
 * when i test out the install.php I get:
 * > ‘.__(‘Already Installed’).’
   > ‘.__(‘You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear
   > your old database tables first.’).’
   >  ‘);} switch($step) { case 0: case 1: //
   > in case people are directly linking to this display_header(); ?>
   > ReadMe documentation at your leisure. Otherwise, just fill in the information
   > below and you’ll be on your way to using the most extendable and powerful personal
   > publishing platform in the world.’), ‘../readme.html’); ?>
   > error) ) wp_die($wpdb->error->get_error_message()); display_header(); // Fill
   > in the data we gathered $weblog_title = isset($_POST[‘weblog_title’]) ? stripslashes(
   > $_POST[‘weblog_title’]) : ”; $admin_email = isset($_POST[‘admin_email’]) ? 
   > stripslashes($_POST[‘admin_email’]) : ”; $public = isset($_POST[‘blog_public’])?(
   > int) $_POST[‘blog_public’] : 0; // check e-mail address $error = false; if (
   > empty($admin_email)) { // TODO: poka-yoke display_setup_form( __(‘you must 
   > provide an e-mail address.’) ); $error = true; } else if (!is_email($admin_email)){//
   > TODO: poka-yoke display_setup_form( __(‘that isn’t a valid e-mail address. 
   > E-mail addresses look like: [username@example.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/already-installed-error-4/username@example.com?output_format=md)’));
   > $error = true; } if ( $error === false ) { $wpdb->show_errors(); $result = 
   > wp_install($weblog_title, ‘admin’, $admin_email, $public); extract($result,
   > EXTR_SKIP); ?>
 * I hope this all makes sense.
    thanks for your help in advance

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/already-installed-error-4/#post-1291381)
 * See [Installing WordPress Locally Using MAMP](http://michaeldoig.net/4/installing-wordpress-locally-using-mamp.htm).
   And use PHPMyAdmin to find the name of the database already installed and call
   that in wp-config, or use PHPMyAdmin to clear the database tables and/or make
   a new database for WordPress.
 *  Thread Starter [simplycolette](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simplycolette/)
 * (@simplycolette)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/already-installed-error-4/#post-1291504)
 * Thanks I got it working! I wasn’t putting wordpress in the correct folder.

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [simplycolette](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simplycolette/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/already-installed-error-4/#post-1291504)
 * Status: not resolved

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