Creating 2nd WP blog in same database, says already installed

  • I created a WordPress site, and set it up at https://pwesterhof.wordpress.com.

    Decided to convert it / move it to a hosted domain, at https://www.patriciawesterhof.com. The same account has another site based on WP, so they’ll be sharing a database. I gave the new one a unique table prefix in the wp-config.php file.

    I uploaded the WP files (to a /blog directory), went to the blog/wp-admin/install.php file, and it says I’ve already installed WordPress. And when you go to https://www.patriciawesterhof.com you see a temporary-type page.

    Here’s the problem: How do I get the https://pwesterhof.wordpress.com site moved over? I downloaded the XML thing, but since I didn’t get an installation password, I can’t login to the new site to import that.

    Long story short, I’m confused.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    You have a blog here: https://www.patriciawesterhof.com/blog/

    Is that not what you wanted? If you want to have that run in root, you can do that, but first get the blog imported ?? and you’d lose your existing welcome page.

    Thread Starter Nikabrik

    (@nikabrik)

    Right, but I don’t know how that got there! ?? I uploaded the WordPress folder, and suddenly that was there… I don’t even know the username or password to get in and edit it, because I didn’t go through a WP installation process it just told me WP was already installed.

    If I could get in to edit that blog, I could just upload the XML file from the https://pwesterhof.wordpress.com blog, that’s all set up and styled and ready to go.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Okay, we’re going to need to do some database checking here ??

    Do you have phpMyAdmin (if you have Cpanel on your account you probably do)? If so, go in and check your database and see what tables you have.

    The same account has another site based on WP, so they’ll be sharing a database. I gave the new one a unique table prefix in the wp-config.php file.

    Most likely you’re pointing to the existing blog. ?? In the wp-config.php file in the blog folder, check what the prefix is. Match that up to the database tables you saw in phpMyAdmin.

    You should see a lot of wp_* tables and then yourprefix_ tables as well.

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