Title: Upgrade misdirection…
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Upgrade misdirection…

 *  Resolved [gpence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gpence/)
 * (@gpence)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-misdirection/)
 * Background — for several years I have had 2 WP blogs on my hosted domain. Each
   has it’s own parked (sub-)domain which points to a unique directory on my main
   domain. For the better part of the past year, I have been inactive on both blogs.
   Recently I decided to update both to version 2.9.3.
 * The first blog (“PJ” for short) auto upgraded and it worked like a champ. I spent
   a day or two changing themes and getting everything the way I wanted it then 
   I decided to update the second blog (“AA” for short).
 * “AA” did not auto update, so being a WP veteran, I manually extracted the files
   and uploaded them to my web host using FileZilla. Now, I can’t login to “AA”.
   When I manually entered aa.com/wp-admin/wp-login.php, it takes me to a WP Login
   with “Return to “PJ” ” at the top.
 * Now, being a self-proclaimed veteran, I took it upon myself to look at my MySQL
   database and I see in the 1 database, 2 sets of WP files. The “PJ” site uses 
   the normal wp_ prefix and the “AA” site uses the “AA_wp_” prefix. When I look
   at the 2 “_user” tables I see a different structure in each… I seemingly can’t
   force “AA” to update my aa_wp_ database b/c it says everything looks fine.
 * Two of my main concerns are user authentication key changes have been made since
   my “old” version of WP and the wp_config.php file has some updates too.
 * Any suggestions?
 * TIA
    gpence

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 *  Thread Starter [gpence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gpence/)
 * (@gpence)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-misdirection/#post-1439656)
 * Sorry — typo. It should read 2.9.2
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-misdirection/#post-1439664)
 * you need to make sure the AA `wp-config.php` contaims the correct table prefix
   `"
   AA_wp_"`
 *  Thread Starter [gpence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gpence/)
 * (@gpence)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-misdirection/#post-1439961)
 * Ummm, I missed the obvious there, didn’t I?
 * Thanks, samboll — worked like a charm. Apparently 2.9.2 doesn’t like my old theme,
   but it is working now!
 * Thanks!

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 * Last reply from: [gpence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gpence/)
 * Last activity: [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-misdirection/#post-1439961)
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