Title: Help with second installation
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Help with second installation

 *  [blatnik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blatnik/)
 * (@blatnik)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-second-installation/)
 * Can someone help me with installation of wordpress 2.7. I have installed it with
   wrong username and password so i deleted the tables and database (my private 
   server) and wanted to install wordpress again but I get this error:
 * ‘.__(‘Already Installed’).’
 * ‘.__(‘You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear
   your old database tables first.’).’
 * What can I do now? How to tell wordpress that I have already deleted the sql 
   database?
 * Thank you very much for your help.

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 *  [figaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figaro/)
 * (@figaro)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-second-installation/#post-934535)
 * It’s still recognizing the database for some reason. Have you created a new database,
   with a different name, and then changed that information in the wp config.php
   file?
 *  [magnewil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/magnewil/)
 * (@magnewil)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-second-installation/#post-934579)
 * I am having the same problem. I deleted everything wordpress related from my 
   server and reinstalled. Same error as above. I’m not sure I can use a different
   database name as I am filling out the wpconfig.php file as instructed by my host.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-second-installation/#post-934615)
 * Try a different $table_prefix in wp-config.php.
 * Though don’t know why you’d have to resort to that if you deleted the database
   tables.

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 * [installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installation/)
 * [second](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/second/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 3 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-second-installation/#post-934615)
 * Status: not resolved

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