Already Installed Message – Multiple Installs

  • Resolved DuncOne

    (@duncone)


    18 years, 3 months ago

    I have two sites hosted on the same account which has a single MySQL database. Call the sites “siteA” and “siteB”. SiteA has had WordPress installed for a few months. It is in directory siteA/wp/. Since I planned multiple installs from the beginning, I gave siteA’s tables the prefix “af1_”.

    Now I am trying to install WordPress for siteB in directory siteB/wp/ and with table prefix “kh_”. When I run the install, siteB/wp/wp-admin/install.php, I get the message:

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

    I may be wrong, but I suspect some sort of redirection is happening that causes the install to look at siteA’s files instead of siteB’s.

    From another post I read, I tried typing in siteB/wp/wp-admin/ to see how the host handled it. What it did was redirect to address siteA/wp/wp-admin/ and bring up siteA’s Admin panel. I’m wondering if something similar could be happening behind the scenes when the install is run.

    Any suggestions on what I should be checking on the host (linux, apache) to see if this is what is happening?

    Thanks,

    Duncan

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    18 years, 3 months ago

    SiteA and siteB are two different domains?
    Is there any kind of redirect in place between the two “sites”?
    Did you upload the WP files to the second location? And – most importantly!!! – did you change the prefix in the wp-config file to point to the second set of tables?

    Thread Starter DuncOne

    (@duncone)

    18 years, 3 months ago

    I’ll have to double check that I uploaded the right copy of wp-config to siteB’s directory. I don’t have ftp access to my host from my current location, so I’ll check this evening. I hope I didn’t do something as silly as using the wrong wp-config.

    To answer the questions:

    SiteA and siteB are different domains.

    There shouldn’t be any sort of redirect between the sites, and I’ve never intentionally set one up. I don’t know if I could have accidently created a redirect.

    I uploaded the WP files to the second location. (SiteA is 1.5.1.3 and siteB is 2.0)

    I changed the prefix in the wp-config file which I made from the wp-config-sample file that came with the WP 2.0 package. But, as mentioned above, I’ll have to double check that this is the file I uploaded to siteB.

    Thread Starter DuncOne

    (@duncone)

    18 years, 3 months ago

    My apologies for wasting your time.

    Apparently I uploaded the wrong directory and got another 1.5.1.3 installation instead of 2.0 which included the wrong version of wp-config.

    Sorry again.

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