brianurbanik

Hello again,

Well, it serves me right, but I started having problems with WordPress (I’m the one who’s support people told me to just go ahead and install and everything will be alright). I deleted my entire installation, cleared my database, and reinstalled, only to find the same error (of course). I did some searching around, and came across this link:

https://trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/7724

Have a read through that page! I made the adjustments in the php files that are suggested in the Attachments section, refreshed my WordPress install page, and the error disappeared. WordPress 2.6.2 seems to be installed fine now, but I’ll post back here if I have any more problems (or solutions).

I was having the same problem. Here’s what my error looked like:

WordPress database error Table ‘brianurbanik_com.wp_options’ doesn’t exist for query INSERT INTO wp_options (option_name, option_value, autoload) VALUES (‘cron’, ‘a:2:{i:1221253094;a:1:{s:17:\”wp_update_plugins\”;a:1:{s:32:\”40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a\”;a:3:{s:8:\”schedule\”;s:10:\”twicedaily\”;s:4:\”args\”;a:0:{}s:8:\”interval\”;i:43200;}}}s:7:\”version\”;i:2;}’, ‘yes’) made by add_option WordPress database error Table ‘brianurbanik_com.wp_options’ doesn’t exist for query INSERT INTO wp_options (option_name, option_value, autoload) VALUES (‘random_seed’, ’11c57d5b8679ae8471ab492bd27c9052′, ‘yes’) made by add_option WordPress database error Table ‘brianurbanik_com.wp_options’ doesn’t exist for query INSERT INTO wp_options (option_name, option_value, autoload) VALUES (‘auth_salt’, ‘KBbqJN(@N5#8’, ‘yes’) made by add_option

The above string of text was at the bottom of the install page, and because it was there I kind of freaked out, did some googling, found and read this thread, and when I didn’t find an answer here I emailed the guy who runs the servers my site is hosted on. Here’s his response:

Your WP appears to be installed now. There was not a problem with the server or the database, rather with the installation script. The script wanted to access a table in the database that was not yet created by the installation. I simply ignored the error message and installed it.

So, in my case at least, I was alarmed by the error and didn’t try to go through with the remainder of the install (the part where you enter your username and password). My site works fine now (https://brianurbanik.com/blog) and the install seemed to work perfectly fine despite the error that made me panic in the first place.

This might not be applicable to everyone, but I hope that it’s at least of help to some.

bau