Unable to reinstall WooCommerce

Hi @tlnw ,

Thanks for reaching out!

I understand that you are unable to update WooCommerce to 6.7.0 as it crashed your site, and when attempting to do a fresh install, WooCommerce will not reinstall.

I am unable to replicate this issue on my staging site, as I have managed to successfully update WooCommerce to 6.7.0, with the latest version of WordPress.

As a first step, I would recommend performing a full conflict test to rule out any theme/plugin conflicts that may be causing this issue.

Kindly do the following:

– Temporarily switch your theme to Storefront
– Disable all plugins
– Temporarily disable/remove any custom code (including any custom CSS) that may have been added.
– Try and install WooCommerce to see if the issue persists

If you’re not seeing the same problem after completing the conflict test, then you know the problem was with the plugins and/or theme you deactivated. To figure out which plugin is causing the problem, reactivate your other plugins one by one, checking for any issues as you go along until you find the one causing conflict.

Please see the below documentation for a more detailed explanation of how to do a conflict test here:

https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/how-to-test-for-conflicts

Please let me know how this goes!

Hello,

I followed your steps and installation still failed. I even removed the folder out of the plugins section from previous installation attempts but no luck.

Hi @tlnw ,

Thanks for the update!

As a next step, please could you do the following:

1. Download the WooCommerce plugin as .zip
2. Unzip the .zip file
3. Access the /wp-content/plugins/ via FTP or cPanel, rename the current WooCommerce folder to WooCommerce.old, and copy the newly downloaded and unzipped plugin files to the plugins folder.
4. Open your WordPress admin dashboard and activate the plugin.

If the above makes no difference, please could you enable WordPress debug logging on your site. Here is a helpful guide on how this is done.

Once you’ve enabled debug logging, please try to install WooCommerce. This should trigger the error again and hopefully, an error will be logged in the wp-content/debug.log file.

Please let me know how this goes!

It looks like the manual installation did the trick. WooCommerce is working again and the site is back to normal.

Thank you for your assistance.

Hi @tlnw,

You are most welcome, glad the issue has been resolved ??

Please feel free to mark this thread as resolved in the sidebar, and kindly create a new topic if you require any further help.

Thanks!

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