Can't Install a WordPress blog – have error codes

  • Fantastico and manual installs are giving me trouble. I have been a wordpress (self-hosted) blogger for over 8 years so this is highly odd. I asked my hosting co. to install one as a test and they encountered issues with “User already exists” in the user entry area. There is no way to enter information there.

    Using fantastico I came up with this error message:

    wp_users: Table ‘damienr_wrdp6.wp_users’ doesn’t exist
    wp_usermeta: Table ‘damienr_wrdp6.wp_usermeta’ doesn’t exist
    wp_posts: Table ‘damienr_wrdp6.wp_posts’ doesn’t exist
    wp_links: Table ‘damienr_wrdp6.wp_links’ doesn’t exist
    wp_options: Table ‘damienr_wrdp6.wp_options’ doesn’t exist
    wp_postmeta: Table ‘damienr_wrdp6.wp_postmeta’ doesn’t exist
    wp_terms: Table ‘damienr_wrdp6.wp_terms’ doesn’t exist
    wp_term_taxonomy: Table ‘damienr_wrdp6.wp_term_taxonomy’ doesn’t exist
    wp_term_relationships: Table ‘damienr_wrdp6.wp_term_relationships’ doesn’t exist

    Help!

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  • It sounds like to me that Fantastico wants you to create the database, if you have not created a database before running fantastico perhaps this could be the problem, some hosts script installers (like fantastico) have given me grief and this was the problem.

    If this is a brand new WordPress install, i would delete the database and delete the WordPress files and start over. I prefer to do installs manually as I can be sure each step was done correctly. I like to have phpmyadmin and FileZilla running so i can make sure its done properly.

    Some handy tips to troubleshoot your current database:

    1. try installing WordPress again into the same database under a different prefix. It is possible to install two WordPress installations using the same database. By changing the database prefix you can have two WordPress’s using the same database with the same username and password. perhaps you could do a fresh install and change the database prefix from ‘wp_’ to ‘wp_test_’ and this would create new tables.

    2. logging in to your database dashboard and physically looking at your tables to see if wp_users: Table ‘damienr_wrdp6.wp_users’ really does or doesn’t exist might lead to another clue.

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