Already Installed?!

  • Hi there,

    I’m new to WordPress, and I had it installed earlier today, but then I made some stupid mistake and had to delete everything – I just deleted the files in my FTP program, SmartFTP, maybe I shouldn’t have done that, because now I have installed WordPress for the second time and this keeps turning up:

    Already Installed

    You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.

    I simply have no idea how to clear old database tables…I am privately hosted, do I have to ask my hostess to do something about that or is there a way I can clear the database tables myself?

    Hope my descriptions aren’t too confusing,

    Esther

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  • If you have access to a PHPMyAdmin or similar tool, go into that and delete (drop) all tables beginning with wp_ to clear it out.

    Or, if your MySQL database only contains WordPress tables and you haven’t installed anything else in that database, you can safely delete/drop the whole database and run the install script again.

    Hope this helps.

    I did remove the wordpress database, and created it again, but get the same error, time after time, after time (BTW: I’m trying to rebuild my blog locally, using MAMP on a MAC before ftping it to my host) : I’ve reinstalled MySQL, I’ve reinstalled WordPress, I’ve faithfully followed Michael Doig’s tutorial for MAMP and get the same result every time. As crappy as it was, I’m about to abandon this and go back to Radio Userland — at least I could get it to work!

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