Why Is WP Telling Me It Needs To Be Installed?

  • Resolved skustes

    (@skustes)


    16 years, 3 months ago

    I’ve had my blog up and running on WP for over a year now. Today, my site started throwing a 503 Service Unavailable error (GoDaddy is the host…need to change hosts). But now that it’s back, when I try to go to the blog, it redirects me to the installation directory and the Famous 5 Minute Install.

    So I checked my files and database and everything appears to still be there. Why is it telling me it needs to be installed again? What’s up with that? Advice?

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  • Did you check your wp-config file?

    Thread Starter skustes

    (@skustes)

    Yes, that is fine. I think I found the problem. When I go into the database, I get an error “#1033 – Incorrect information in file: ‘wp_postmeta.frm'” The error only appears on tables that weren’t inserted by plugins.

    Is this salvageable or should I just reinstall the database, wipe the tables, and upload the data again?

    Thread Starter skustes

    (@skustes)

    I can export the data and have done so. But I can’t Browse the data or structure within PHPMyAdmin.

    Thread Starter skustes

    (@skustes)

    Fixed…I pulled a backup of the non-corrupted tables, got a copy of my corrupted tables from my most recent backup, blew away the old database and recreated it with the credentials, then reimported the database.

    I tried just blowing away the tables and reimporting in the corrupted database, but that didn’t work.

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