Upgrading to 2.0 problem. “It doesn’t look like you’ve installed WP yet.”

  • Resolved strixy

    (@strixy)


    18 years, 11 months ago

    I found the instructions on upgrading from 1.5 to 2.0 to be well written and easy to follow. I was, however, unsucessful.

    After running wp-admin/upgrade.php I navigated through the process to the “step 1” page, no problem. After clicking on the “Have Fun!” link I was redirected to my main page. (as I should be).

    What I saw was a white page with, “It doesn’t look like you’ve installed WP yet. Try running install.php.”

    If I do click on the “try running install.php” link I get the “You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.” page. Which I would hope I get, so that’s good news.

    After surfing through the pages and help files, codex and Google I discovered some info on editing the database directly to make some changes concerning site_url and home. And yes, those were wonky and I made the appropriate changes.

    Still no joy.

    I read each post in the forum here concerning updating.

    No joy.

    I searched the forums here, and again, no joy.

    I tried to re-upgrade twice. No joy.

    I’ve checked and double checked file permissions. I’ve deleted install.php. I’ve manually edited the config.php file.

    I am running my own server on a Linux/Ubuntu/Debian distro with Apache 2.0.54, MySql Ver 12.22 Distrib 4.0.24, and PHP 5.0.5.

    This configuration worked well with WP 1.5.0

    I didn’t run any plugins and I didn’t have any personal hacks (on this server or this install anyway).

    I’m stumped and posting in a forum. How hard up can I be?

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  • Thread Starter strixy

    (@strixy)

    Fixed! I don’t know the solution or what the problem was, but I downloaded the .tar file again, unpacked it again, reupgraded again and it worked. I wonder if it was just a corrupted download?

    Most likely, yes. It easily happens to any of us ??

    Hi,

    This question may sound silly… but shouldn’t the update just one click away from fantastico cpanel. It was usually the case from 1.2 to 1.5.2.

    I check my fantastico installation and it says I’m running the latest 2.10.2 r5. But I don’t seem link prompt on my fantastico cpanel.

    Is this (one click update on cpanel) no longer hold true?

    I’ve a couple of blogs that have quite alot of entries and I fear if I would to delete the 1.5.2v wp files and then upload the v2.0, I might delete some other stuff.

    Please advise
    Thanks

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