Want clean install — “install” or “upgrade” ?

  • I manage two WP blogs, my brother’s and mine, and we started out around 1.2-ish then did the upgrade to 1.5. However, I noticed problems with the way the “Themes” function worked, so I decided that, with 1.5.1.3, the best thing to do is do a “clean install” of both. In other words, I want to delete all the wp-* files and their related subdirectories, then untar the new source and go from there….

    Caveat: I do NOT want to lose the old postings or users, so I want to basically have the generic theme (which I can then switch out) with the existing postings. Should I run install.php or upgrade.php and do I need to save the database? Logic tells me that the answer to the latter is “yes”, but I’m wondering if (for example) I run “install.php” if it will wipe out the database or if it will figure out that the database is there and continue on leaving the database untouched.

    Any advice/thoughts/etc would be appreciated.

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  • Save the database. Back it up.

    then – in a nutshell:
    – delete everything in /wp-admin (EXCEPT vars.php and quicktags.js if you have changed them)
    – delete everything in /wp-includes
    – delete the wp-* files at blog root that you have not altered

    upload new ones

    run upgrade.php. Trying to run install.php should error to a stop anyway.

    So long as you backup the database in case a torrent of frogs overruns the server center mid-upgrade, you should be fine.

    Are you okay with the backing up bit ?

    Thread Starter skerdog

    (@skerdog)

    Yeah I’ve got a person at my work who is a phpMyAdmin guru…she’ll be able to help me with that portion. Thanks for the tips/help.

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