Upgraded, now it says I haven’t installed WP.

  • I upgraded from 1.5.2 to 2.0.1. After I ran upgrade.php, I click on “Have fun . .” and it takes me back to the homepage. All that’s there now is “It doesn’t look like you’ve installed WP yet. Try running install.php.” I do not know why this happened. The only extra plugin I had running was lazyest-gallery and it’s suposedly 2.0.1 compliant. Having 0 installation issues in the past, I did not back up the original DB files. So I have three questions:

    1. Does anyone know what may fix the problem?
    2. Where Can I find the old 1.5.2 zip file
    3. I’m not a DB expert, so if i need to revert back to 1.5.2, will i need to cleanup any changes in the db? What feilds?

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  • ringmaster

    (@ringmaster)

    Ok, so after this line in your wp-settings.php:

    $wpdb->hide_errors();

    Insert this line:

    die(update_user_cache() .':'. strstr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'install.php') .':'. defined('WP_INSTALLING'));

    Report back.

    Thread Starter joker619

    (@joker619)

    All that shows up now is “::” as you can see here https://www.joker619.com

    masquerade

    (@masquerade)

    The problem is that your blog does not have any users that have a level greater than 0. If WordPress detects this, it claims you haven’t installed WordPress. The solution is to manually go into your database and change one of your users back to level 10 (If you have phpmyadmin, that would be ideal).

    I’m not sure why or how this problem occurs, the downgrader tries to do this for you, but for some reason, for me, and you apparently, it fails on Windows. Don’t know why or how, but it does.

    Thread Starter joker619

    (@joker619)

    That was it. Thank all of you very much. I’ve had paid support that wasn’t as efficient as this forum. Way to go!

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    Related Codex FAQ:
    After running upgrade.php get the message “It doesn’t look like you’ve installed WP yet. Try running install.php.”

    pgray007

    (@pgray007)

    Gents,

    I am having the same problem (minus the downgrade back to 1.5.2). I follwed the upgrade steps on the codex, and get the “WP is not installed” message.

    I’ve checked the following:

    * wp_config.php is OK
    * commented the “hide_errors” line; nothing appears other than the “not installed” message
    * put in ringmasters “die…” line. I get “::” returned
    * checked my patandmeg_user_meta table and my admin user has a value of 10.

    I am stuck. Any suggestions??? I moved my working 1.5.2 blog to a test server and all was working, then immediately after the 2.0 upgrade my “not installed” problem started.

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    For people needing to make sure there is a user with admin rights see this:

    https://redalt.com/downloads/wp2/restore-admin.zip

    This is for 2.0 and higher, not 1.5.2

    pgray007

    (@pgray007)

    MichaelH,

    Thanks for the script, but no dice. When I try to execute that script I continue to get the dreaded:

    It doesn’t look like you’ve installed WP yet. Try running install.php.

    This is after a “clean slate” install on a new server. I copied over all my 1.5.2 files, restored the 1.5.2 database on the new server, and validated that everything works. I then deleted the files suggested in the upgrade instructions, ran the upgrade script, and was bamboozled.

    Thanks for any more suggestions! I am stuck!

    pgray007

    (@pgray007)

    ANyone have any ideas? I’m completely stuck at this point!

    Help! (please)

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