My site occasionally displays the "Installation" page

  • It started Thursday morning. I logged on to my site, https://www.bronxbaseballdaily.com, and it was working. Then I clicked on a random link and it took me back to the WordPress installation page. After about 30 minutes my site went back to normal. At this point I backed everything up and then upgraded from WordPress version 2.9.2 to WordPress 3.0. That process went well and the site was running smoothly. A few hours later it again takes me to the WordPress installation page again.

    It’s working again right now, but I’m afraid that this is going to keep happening every now and then.

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  • I have had the same problem with my main blog. And had it with the testbed installs as well. After changing the MySQL usernames for every WP install and their databases, everything else has been working just fine except the main blog.

    The problem is so severe that there is less uptime than downtime at the moment and the percentage is same as it was in vice versa situation.. ?? The problems started after I updated to WP 3.0. The upgrade to 3.0 went smoothly, no problems. All plugins are upgraded as is the theme and all support 3.0 according to the developers.

    I also have 100% identical testbed install of the WP running flawlessly on localhost and on different hosting, so it should not be caused by the plugins.. I have ticket in for almost third week now with my host and they have been able to solve everything else but the main blog issues. I have removed the install.php for now just in case, since it gets shown to whole world when the problem is on.. I don’t want to risk someone hijacking the WP install..

    The biggest issue making it hard to resolve is that the problem comes out of the sky when ever and not in particular situations. At first we thought it comes when something is changed/added in the database: new post, new page, new comment, new user, etc. but it does also occur when someone is just browsing the posts and pages..

    @bxbaseballdaily
    why don’t you remove it?

    I have re-upgraded through the admin panel and also changed the permalinks to default and later back to my preferred one. Still having the problems.

    @forunner
    At least for me the reverting to 2.9.2 did not help at all, it caused more problems..

    And if you meant removing the install.php, it helps avoiding the hijacking, but still keeps the WP not working. But I suugest to remove or at least rename the install.php.

    I was speaking about the install.php ^^

    I thought so. ??

    Oh, and if you try to re-install the 3.0 upgrade, remember to remove/rename the install.php again since it is generated/copied there again.

    Thread Starter BxBaseballdaily

    (@bxbaseballdaily)

    I deleted the install.php, but that doesn’t solve the problem. It just takes you to an error message instead.

    Thread Starter BxBaseballdaily

    (@bxbaseballdaily)

    I use iPage as my host. Is that what you use Kanttila?

    Thread Starter BxBaseballdaily

    (@bxbaseballdaily)

    I was wondering if there was anybody out there with any information about how to fix this issue. My site is still continuing to redirect automatically to the install page, but only occasionally.

    bringing up the install page usually means one thing – the wp_options table is crashing in the database

    so, log in to host’s phpmyadmin
    click on database
    check mark the wp_options table
    choose “repair” from the drop down at bottom of page
    all will be well

    hey, I also have the same problem after upgrading to wp 3.0… What is funny is that my host is also ipage!

    Anyone have any solutions?

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