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 *   Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
   
   In reply to: [‘WordPress already installed’ Error when installing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-already-installed-error-when-installing/)
 *  [wp-setup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wp-setup/)
 * (@wp-setup)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-already-installed-error-when-installing/#post-1315327)
 * I have the same kind of wordpress set up problem. Following is the error message
   that i got:
 * >
 * ERROR: %s’), $error); ?>
 *  />
 * ‘.__(‘Already Installed’).’
    ‘.__(‘You appear to have already installed WordPress.
   To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.’).’
 * ‘);} $php_version = phpversion(); $mysql_version = $wpdb->db_version(); $php_compat
   = version_compare( $php_version, $required_php_version, ‘>=’ ); $mysql_compat
   = version_compare( $mysql_version, $required_mysql_version, ‘>=’ ) || file_exists(
   WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/db.php’ ); if ( !$mysql_compat && !$php_compat ) $compat =
   sprintf( __(‘You cannot install because WordPress %1$s requires PHP version %
   2$s or higher and MySQL version %3$s or higher. You are running PHP version %
   4$s and MySQL version %5$s.’), $wp_version, $required_php_version, $required_mysql_version,
   $php_version, $mysql_version ); elseif ( !$php_compat ) $compat = sprintf( __(‘
   You cannot install because WordPress %1$s requires PHP version %2$s or higher.
   You are running version %3$s.’), $wp_version, $required_php_version, $php_version);
   elseif ( !$mysql_compat ) $compat = sprintf( __(‘You cannot install because WordPress%
   1$s requires MySQL version %2$s or higher. You are running version %3$s.’), $
   wp_version, $required_mysql_version, $mysql_version ); if ( !$mysql_compat ||!
   $php_compat ) { display_header(); die(‘
    ‘ . __(‘Insufficient Requirements’) .‘‘.
   $compat . ‘
 * ‘); } switch($step) { case 0: case 1: // in case people are directly linking 
   to this display_header(); ?>
    ReadMe documentation at your leisure. Otherwise,
   just fill in the information below and you’ll be on your way to using the most
   extendable and powerful personal publishing platform in the world.’), ‘../readme.
   html’); ?>
 * error) ) wp_die($wpdb->error->get_error_message()); display_header(); // Fill
   in the data we gathered $weblog_title = isset($_POST[‘weblog_title’]) ? stripslashes(
   $_POST[‘weblog_title’]) : ”; $admin_email = isset($_POST[‘admin_email’]) ? stripslashes(
   $_POST[‘admin_email’]) : ”; $public = isset($_POST[‘blog_public’]) ? (int) $_POST[‘
   blog_public’] : 0; // check e-mail address $error = false; if (empty($admin_email)){//
   TODO: poka-yoke display_setup_form( __(‘you must provide an e-mail address.’));
   $error = true; } else if (!is_email($admin_email)) { // TODO: poka-yoke display_setup_form(
   __(‘that isn’t a valid e-mail address. E-mail addresses look like: [username@example.com](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wp-setup/replies/username@example.com?output_format=md)’));
   $error = true; } if ( $error === false ) { $wpdb->show_errors(); $result = wp_install(
   $weblog_title, ‘admin’, $admin_email, $public); extract($result, EXTR_SKIP); ?
   >
 *  admin
 * ‘; } echo ‘
    ‘. $password_message .’
 * ‘; ?>
 * I have tried to delete the database and set up a new one in the config file. 
   Wonder where it takes the reference to the database from
    Can anyone help me 
   resolve the issue..

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