Title: Reinstalling wordpress
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Reinstalling wordpress

 *  [wdbym](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wdbym/)
 * (@wdbym)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstalling-wordpress-3/)
 * I need to reinstall wordpress and want to know if i can use the same pages i’ve
   created with wordpress before. i have a backup of wordpress before i had problems,
   but where do the pages that i created go to? i tried finding them via ftp but
   have no clue where they’re at.
 * THANKS

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstalling-wordpress-3/#post-1126061)
 * content (pages and posts and stuff) is stored in your mysql database.
 *  Thread Starter [wdbym](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wdbym/)
 * (@wdbym)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstalling-wordpress-3/#post-1126064)
 * really?
    my dillema is that my co-owner’s dad set up our database and contacting
   him is very difficult, is there any other way? 🙁
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstalling-wordpress-3/#post-1126065)
 * > content (pages and posts and stuff) is stored in your mysql database.
 * > is there any other way?
 * No.
 *  Thread Starter [wdbym](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wdbym/)
 * (@wdbym)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstalling-wordpress-3/#post-1126066)
 * how unfortunate.
    oh well, thank you.
 * Another question- yesterday I made a database backup with the database backup
   plug in. how can i view whats in the file since it’s saved as .sql.gz?
 *  Thread Starter [wdbym](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wdbym/)
 * (@wdbym)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstalling-wordpress-3/#post-1126067)
 * my bad, i unzip it hahaha. oh gosh, i’m terrible at this.
 * alright. since i have this backup is it possible for me to reinstall wordpress
   but be able to use this to obtain my posts once I get the database password?

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstalling-wordpress-3/#post-1126067)
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