Site Gone – back at install.php

  • Resolved keco86

    (@keco86)


    15 years, 10 months ago

    Holy crap. I am slightly stressed at the moment. I am not at home and my wordpress site is down. This is a two year old site that has been running I last updated my version end of summerish….
    I have a message on the front page “It doesn’t look like you’ve installed WP yet. Try running install.php.”

    Where is my site!!!??? If I run install.php will that overwrite my database???

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  • Hopefully you have a database backup. If you don’t call your host.

    I wouldn’t do the install till you understand what happened.

    If your database is still there (use phpMyAdmin to look at it) then you might try rebuilding/optimizing your tables.

    Also make sure the $table_prefix in your wp_config.php file is in fact the $table_prefix being used. If “wp_” is the value of $table_prefix in wp-config.php then your posts table will be called “wp_posts”.

    check to make sure your options table isnt crashed. thats the main reason the install pops up on established blogs.

    Hey Whoo — thanks for the post! I was having this same problem, and I’m glad I didn’t do the reinstall routine. After reading your post, I browsed my MySQL database and found that yes, indeed, my options table was corrupt. So were a few other tables. I was able to restore a backup of my database and it works fine now.

    But here’s a question — I am running three blogs on this commercially hosted server, and two of them had database corruption this week. Does that mean I’m being hacked?

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