Title: WordPress and Database Woes
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WordPress and Database Woes

 *  [substar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/substar/)
 * (@substar)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-and-database-woes/)
 * Hello,
 * I’ve searched the forums for information concerning the role WordPress plays 
   in database creation.
 * I’m trying to update my WordPress to 1.5 and I just deletes all the files on 
   my website and uploaded the 1.5 files and changed the settings to connect to 
   my same database. I logically thought that WordPress would recognize the tables
   and information from my database and recreate the blog entries based on that.
   However, when I do that WordPress says that it’s already installed here, but 
   the index.php page is blank. I then backed up my database, created a new one,
   tied WordPress to the new blank database, in which WordPress tried to install
   on the new blank database. If it installs on the new blank database, there are
   no entries, obviously because it’s created brand new empty tables. I’m not really
   sure what is going wrong here. I guess I want to know why I can’t replace all
   my files to the 1.5 version package and keep the same database plugged in. Why
   does it go blank? Is it because there possibly are more .php files that need 
   to be reconfigured that I’m not catching?
 * Bobby

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 *  [iand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iand/)
 * (@iand)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-and-database-woes/#post-180832)
 * Did you run upgrade.php?

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-and-database-woes/#post-180832)
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