WordPress already installed?

  • Hey

    I just tried to install a new wp blog called, let’s say newblog.com. I have a personal website which is also created in wp.

    Ok, so my problem is as follows. When I type https://www.newblog.com/wp-admin/install.php I get this message: “You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.” along with an option to go directly to the “log in” page. Further, this link takes me to my personal blog(!) even though the addressfield contains the new one.

    Hope somebody out there can help.

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  • Do you already have your personal website in root and you trying to install another one in root.

    You can have one wordpress in folder

    Thread Starter tisthammer

    (@tisthammer)

    They have separate domains so that should not be a problem. Seems like wordpress thinks that I try to access my private page instead of the new one.

    If they are separate domains then you install wordpress in the folder of your add on domain name not in root.
    You have primary domain name that is your personal wordpress
    your add on domain name will have folder of it own.

    you are trying to use the same database – which is fine – but you must change the $table_prefix = 'wp_'; in wp-config.php to something else like
    $table_prefix = 'wp2_';

    Thread Starter tisthammer

    (@tisthammer)

    But what is root exactly?

    Thread Starter tisthammer

    (@tisthammer)

    Figured it out. Somehow my config file had been swapped with another.

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