Title: Error after installing
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Error after installing

 *  [Harmjean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harmjean/)
 * (@harmjean)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-after-installing/)
 * After trying to install WP the first time i didn’t work and after installing 
   the secondtime i get the following error:
 * >
    WordPress ‘.__(‘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) $_POST[‘
   blog_public’] : 0; // check e-mail address if (empty($admin_email)) { // TODO:
   poka-yoke die(‘
 * ‘.__(“ERROR: you must provide an e-mail address.”).’
    ‘); } else if (!is_email(
   $admin_email)) { // TODO: poka-yoke die(‘
 * ‘.__(‘ERROR: that isn’t a valid e-mail address. E-mail addresses look like: [username@example.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-after-installing/username@example.com?output_format=md)’).’
   ‘);}
   $wpdb->show_errors(); $result = wp_install($weblog_title, ‘admin’, $admin_email,
   $public); extract($result, EXTR_SKIP); ?>
 *  admin
 * ‘.__(‘Note that password carefully! It is a random password that was generated
   just for you.’).”; ?>
 * Do I really have to empty my database or is there any other solution?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-after-installing/#post-1043013)
 * You only need to remove the WP tables.

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-after-installing/#post-1043013)
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