If you were to take a look in ‘…mysql/data’, wouldn’t that give you a list of all databases created? Maybe you could at least clear the old ones that appear to have been created unsuccessfully and start from scratch.
Alternately, in ‘…mysql/bin’ (at least in the Windows) there are several versions of ‘mysqladmin’. Databases/tables can be flushed/dropped in here, too.
This (in theory at least) could give you a clear start.
I’ve got the same problem. Can anybody help me? I reinstall three times wp and I have erased the DB all the times, too.
Anonymous
I’ve got the same problem,too.
nobody can solve it?
Anonymous
Can I use word press on a windows IIS server?
Not really, some have tried and were able to get part of WP working, but never the whole package. You’ll need PHP on an apache server.
Oh, I didn’t know you had done it. I hear about so many problems with IIS here and the usual answer is, “don’t run WP on IIS”.
Apparently this is an old issue, but it still seems to happen in September 2005. The problem seems to be the ioncube PHP accelerator.
Disable it in /etc/php.ini or upgrade it.
Related threads:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/36445
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/34884
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/44895
