Title: Uninstall/Reinstall
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Uninstall/Reinstall

 *  [marta9227](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marta9227/)
 * (@marta9227)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uninstallreinstall-1/)
 * Wanted to switch my old webhosting from Windows to Linux php5. Had Godaddy do
   that, and it broke my blog. [http://www.howrc.com](http://www.howrc.com) spent
   three days going back and forth with support trying to troubleshoot. Finally 
   decided to uninstall and reinstall and start over with just my posts and comments,
   which I was told I could do with a database back up and restore. But this did
   not work, and now they’re telling me its a WordPress scripting problem that they
   can’t helpme with. But my blog worked fine before the switch, it just couldn’t
   support certain plugins I wanted to use because it wasn’t php5. So it seems clear
   to me that Go daddy broke something in the switch, but they are INSISTING its
   a corrupt WordPress script in my .htaccess file.
 * I know nothing about any of this, so how would I go about finding a corrupt script
   and fixing it? Keep in mind I am COMPLETELY CSS and html illiterate. Please help!

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uninstallreinstall-1/#post-1647776)
 * > So it seems clear to me that Go daddy broke something in the switch, but they
   > are INSISTING its a corrupt WordPress script in my .htaccess file.
 * They may be on to something there, at least it’s worth a try. Try temporarily
   renaming the `.htaccess` file to `htaccess` (remove the dot). If that solves 
   the problem, then we know that something is wrong with the file.

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## Tags

 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)
 * [linux](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/linux/)
 * [windows](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/windows/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uninstallreinstall-1/#post-1647776)
 * Status: not resolved

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