Upgrade to V2.3 error

what file are you loading that you see that message?

Thank you for your quick reply.

If you go to:

https://www.crazyaboutwesties.com/westieblog/

click the “install.php” link, you will get the above error

Jeff

EDIT:

This was an upgrade?

Yes

I posted this in the original post:

I have upgraded to V2.3 and I have have this error:

Jeff

I know what you wrote — Im confirming that. >:|

This does what for you?

https://www.crazyaboutwesties.com/westieblog/wp-admin/upgrade.php

I followed this again and it brings me back to:

It doesn’t look like you’ve installed WP yet. Try running install.php.

If I click on the “install.php” link I get the:

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

Jeff

ignore install.php, thats going to produce that error everytime.

Now, you can do one of two things.

1. Inside your wp-config.php, you can use a new prefix (thats what the wp_ is.

If you change that wp_ to wb_ or jeff_ WordPress will install all new tables.

OR

2. You can go into your database, and delete the existing tables. No-one can tell you exactly where they are.. theyre in your database, and they all start with the prefix I just clue’d you into in #1.

Does that help?

I want to thank you most kindly for all your valued help. I will change the configure file as you suggest later on when I can access it.

If you do not mind I would like to ask you one more thing because you seem to be so helpful, which I do appreciate.

I have another blog is at:

https://www.letterfromwales.com/blog/

I lost all the categories when I upgraded to V2.3. This has kind of put me of upgrading.

I have tried it from 3 different computers and 2 browsers. Deleted the cache, cookies etc but still no success.

Can you suggest any other options that I have

Jeff

Hi

I found this on the forums:

For anyone else dealing with a similar issue, after the upgrade I finally figured out that the .htaccess file wasn’t allowing the re-write. I changed the permissions on the file and then updated my permalinks again and that seemed to solve the problem. The categories are all appearing now in admin.

What permissions on the .htaccess file would I have to do.

Jeff

for wp to write to the .htaccess it typically needs to be chmod 666.

Be sure to change the permissions back to 644 after youre done doing whatever you are doing.

Thank you again for all your kind and valued help

Jeff