403 Forbidden/ 500 Internal Server Error

  • Resolved tylerestes

    (@tylerestes)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    I recently had to delete two wordpress blogs that my web host told me contained malicious code. So I deleted both wordpress directories for the two domains. However, after re-uploading the latest version of WordPress to the two sites and entering in my particular information for wp-config.php I received an error. Upon trying to run “wp-admin/install.php” I got a message that said: “Already Installed. You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first. Log In” the font style of the message was in basic Times New Roman with the links purple as though they had already been clicked, so basically no WordPress login stylization.

    I rechecked my wp-config.php file and everything seemed to be correct.
    So I went to the login page but to no avail, so I read the CODEX about resetting the password in phpMyAdmin. I changed the password in the Database and was able to get into one of the sites. However, when I tried to access the site I would then get 403 Forbidden errors.

    The other site even after changing my “user_pass” password in the Database I still get a “500 Internal Server Error” error.

    At the moment I can’t get into either domain/installation

    please help!

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  • Thread Starter tylerestes

    (@tylerestes)

    OK… I changed the $table_prefix value for one of my sites’ wp-config file. this allowed me to do the install and gain access….

    But, how do I make WordPress latch onto my original database and resume, with all the posts in that database?

    Thread Starter tylerestes

    (@tylerestes)

    …because I don’t want a fresh install, I want the new installation to reference my original MySQL database

    Thread Starter tylerestes

    (@tylerestes)

    Resolved

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