Re-installation

  • I just installed WordPress to use it for my own webpage. But then I made a mistake by writing something wrong somewhere during my page-setup. I tried to figure it out, but I gave up and decided to re-install the whole thing. So I deleted WordPress from my FTP-server and then uploaded it again. Then I opened the “install-page” in my browser, and here is the problem… It says that it appear, that I allready installed wordpress before, and that I have to delete all tables from my database before I can do the re-installation.
    But which tables and which database is it talking about??? And how do I do it????
    Hope to hear from you…

    All the best
    Mads

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  • you can find out database info by opening your wp-config.php and looking at the database info

    you have 3 options
    1) delete database and start over
    2) log in to host’s phpmyadmin and “drop” the database tables and run install qagain
    3) change $table_prefix in wp-config.php to something besides wp_ and run install again

    Thread Starter maaadds

    (@maaadds)

    Thank you very much! But I’m not sure what you mean by option number 3…? Can you explain a little more? “To something besides wp_”??? What something and where beside???
    Hope you can help!
    Thank you!!!

    “To something besides wp_”??? What something and where beside???

    open your wp-config.php and look for the line

    $table_prefix  = 'wp_';'

    change it to

    $table_prefix  = 'wp1_';

    Thread Starter maaadds

    (@maaadds)

    Thank you again! Now I can install it, and I’ve got a new password and all. But I still can’t login. The login-page doesn’t look right (it looks like an old fashioned page – see example here: https://www.madssvaneborg.dk/wordpress/wp-login.php), and when I fill out the spaces and press “login” it says that the page cannot be found…
    I guess I have to start all over again and delete my database. Can you guide me, please? Or do you know how to solve the problem otherwise?

    Thanks a lot!!!!
    Best regards

    somehow you have the 2 url’s messed up
    your install is here
    https://www.madssvaneborg.dk/wordpress
    so with one of the methods from the link below, change them both to be at the above url
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_The_Site_URL

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