ketlan

Groan – me, too.

I just had precisely this problem but I’m hosting a server on my own machine. In my case, I had been trying to install using the Open command in Opera and navigating to install.php. Everything went right when I stopped doing that and instead tuped into my browser’s URL window
https://localhost/…/install.php and hit Return. From then on, it was all plain sailing.

If you were to take a look in ‘…mysql/data’, wouldn’t that give you a list of all databases created? Maybe you could at least clear the old ones that appear to have been created unsuccessfully and start from scratch.
Alternately, in ‘…mysql/bin’ (at least in the Windows) there are several versions of ‘mysqladmin’. Databases/tables can be flushed/dropped in here, too.
This (in theory at least) could give you a clear start.

This is madness. I can feel my braincells dissolving by the billion…
I just ran upgrade.php. It seemed to work fine until I attempted to go to index.php, then I got this message:
‘We’re having a little trouble selecting the proper database for WordPress.
Are you sure it exists?
Your database name is currently specified as wordpress. Is this correct?
On some systems the name of your database is prefixed with your username, so it would be like username_wordpress. Could that be the problem?’
I return to install.php and get the same message I had originally (in the first post of this thread). Either the database exists or it doesn’t!

Ah – might be getting somewhere here. Whatever I type into that part of wp-config.php, or whatever name I give the new database, the response is always ‘You appear to already have WordPress installed. If you would like to reinstall please clear your old database files first.’
In an attempt to get through this, I even named it ‘ketlan’ and still got the same response.
Obviously something’s wrong but I’m buggered if I can see what.
Oh, and the db ‘ketlan’ did not get created. I’m completely at a loss here (though, much against my better nature, I’m starting to get the hang of php files)…

That’s done, plus I’ve been through the registry and taken out everything that has the word ‘wordpress’ in it and I’m still getting the same error. Any other ideas?