Problem moving wordpress – why do I get Install page?

  • I’m having some problems moving my WordPress site to a new server.

    I’ve copied all the WordPress files from my old location
    – exported database from phpmyadmin
    – created new database from new server locale
    – moved all old WordPress files via FTP to new directory
    – imported new database into phpmyadmin
    – updated wp-config.php to have new database and username

    Hit the website admin and still seeing WordPress install page for installing new WordPress – wp-admin/install.php

    When I look at database, I see my old tables (which I renamed with a different prefix.

    If I go ahead and complete install page, I get blank wordpress site and phpmyadmin ammends new database with wp_ tables on top of my original ones.

    Posts are there, but nothing in the admin, but I fresh install and all plugins are inactive and only one hello post.

    Did I miss something in all the tutorials on how to move WordPress.

    Anyone else have or understand my error?

    Thanks ahead of time.

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    Thread Starter idav962

    (@idav962)

    Thanks, but I’ve already read this post and as mentioned, that’s how I arrived a this post.

    Hello,

    I know this is a late response for you, but maybe it will help someone else who has the same problem. I also had the same error as yourself (WP redirecting to the install page, although I was getting a 403 for it and using Lightspeed) and thought I had done everything correctly in wp-config.php, but in fact I hadn’t. I amended the table prefix when I didn’t need to. I realised my error, changed it back but made a typo (the prefix contains a string of random characters). Well, I didn’t spot the it immediately, so I started searching but couldn’t find a solution. I decided to check through wp-config.php again and finally spotted the typo. After correcting it, the problem was resolved; site loaded correctly and didn’t try to redirect to the install page.

    Correction – LiteSpeed.

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