Blog is GONE, “Click Here to install WP” link instead??

  • Resolved Shari

    (@shari)


    19 years, 7 months ago

    Sorry for the bad grammar, am having kittens here. I just finished writing a post, admired all the comments my last post garnered, and tried out a new css layout for the administration panel, which I didn’t like and changed back. Everything seemed in good working order when I logged out. My husband went in to the computer to read my latest entry about ten minutes later and the blog would not come up… after ages of waiting, a page came up saying “It looks like you haven’t installed WP yet, click here to install WP” or something very close to that. What happened?? What do I do?? I have two blogs on the same host and they are both doing the same thing. Here are the addresses:
    https://www.thewordens.org/openup
    https://www.thewordens.org/eyespeak

    PLEASE help… thank you…
    Shari

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  • Thread Starter Shari

    (@shari)

    I forgot to ask… I haven’t clicked it or anything, but what would happen if I clicked that install link? Would everything from my last backup be lost?

    If the original installation is still in the database, the install script would *fail* and notify you things appear to have already been set up.

    Some questions:

    1. Can you access the database (through an admin tool or such)? If so, does it appear the blog’s content is intact?

    2. Could your host have made changes that affected your MySQL server location?

    3. Could your MySQL server be down? Have you contacted your provider to look into it?

    I am now seeing Database Connection errors on both of those sites

    And now they’re both loading…

    Thread Starter Shari

    (@shari)

    Thank you so much for your reply… it took about 45 minutes on my end for them to come back. Scared the living puff out of me. I’m guessing the MySQL server hiccuped or something like that. Thanks very much for your reply as I now know what else to look at should that ever happen again.

    I have another question though… could that “click here to install message” have been viewable by anyone else but me? I had nightmarish visions of a stranger reinstalling WordPress and wiping out my blog. Sorry if that’s a totally moronic question, but I would very much appreciate an explanation to understand how that works and perhaps what I could do to protect my stuff. Thanks!

    As a safeguard, delete the files install.php, install-helper.php.

    Thread Starter Shari

    (@shari)

    Ack! Thank you so much!! They’ve been deleted.

    The reason the blogs weren’t loading is because my host is having problems. My site was up and down like a yo-yo today, but at least it’s nothing to do with WP or anything like that. Thanks again for all your help!

    As a safeguard, delete the files install.php, install-helper.php.

    The import- or whatever files too.

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