Installed 2.8 but 2.9.1 won’t

  • Hi. I’ve just discovered WordPress and installed 2.8 this afternoon, then discovered there’s 2.9.1 so decided to upgrade immediately. I had the original working and had a ‘welcome’ page but as soon as I upgraded to the latest one, nothing now works. I deleted the original (so I assume) and just installed 2.9.1. I can get the installation page and put in ‘admin’ then the password, then all I get is ‘internal server error’. Any ideas? I don’t have a clue what I’m doing with regard to MySQL or wordpress. Thanks in advance.

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  • I think the easiest approach would be for you to:

    – delete all files
    – delete or empty the database

    and start again with a fresh download of 2.9.1

    Hi,

    You should delete the database and create a fresh one before installing 2.9.1 there is a difference in the database structure.
    You can use back the same database name so that you do not need to change anything in your wp-config.php

    Since you are able to install 2.8 you should be able to install 2.9.1 now

    Hope it helps!

    Thread Starter goosey

    (@goosey)

    Well, thanks but…

    I’ve deleted WordPress completely and re-downloaded and then uploaded WordPress to my server, as if starting from scratch I presume. Nothing. All I get is ‘internal server error’ again. What else can I do? I’ve put in all the right passwords and usernames (exactly as before) but this time I can’t get past the first ‘install’ step. Should I delete the whole database? I didn’t want to get rid of all of it as I don’t know what I’m doing! I’ve only deleted the ‘user’ part.

    Help!!!

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    What versions of PHP and SQL are on your server?

    Thread Starter goosey

    (@goosey)

    Right. My server says it’s PHP 4 point something. Yes I know it should be 5 but then WordPress says it’ll work without that being so.

    I’ve now deleted everything, including the database and have started from scratch. I’ve re-uploaded (for the 3rd bloody time) version 2.9.1. I go to the ‘install’ step and exactly the same thing happens: ‘internal server error’. I must be doing something, but I did EXACTLY what I did with 2.8.

    ???

    Thread Starter goosey

    (@goosey)

    Assuming nothing has changed at my server’s end (it hasn’t) then there must be something that differs between 2.8 and 2.9. The tables were set up when I installed 2.8, but now they won’t.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Sorry, but you’ll probably need PHP 5.something. I know, I know, it says it works with 4.x but a LOT of people have had problems. Ask your host to upgrade you, please.

    Thread Starter goosey

    (@goosey)

    Yep, all fine with PHP 5, thanks for your help.

    Perhaps WordPress should tell everyone it DOES need 5 to save people a lot of aggravation ??

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    It actually has been known to work on 4.x. It’s a very odd set of circumstances that causes this to happen, and I think they’ll be changing the reqs for v3.0 because of all this, but … Can’t say for sure.

    The forum mods (who see these) don’t all have access to edit the requirements doc, alas.

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