edmondnl

May I chime in for saying thank you to camilin119!

I also had this problem: “”An existing WordPress network was detected”

I had been going over the whole procedure as outlined by Andrea and was (re)checking every step. Luckily I had documented for my own reference almost all the steps.

However somewhere between the whole switche-marolah (Backende WP 3.0, jEdit, Referencedocument, shoving the stuff to and fro on the screen, etc) I had forgotten to upload the wp-config.php. It was as simple as that! And it was the remark here above of camilin119 that made me realize that it didn’t have to be a bad edit but that it could be a very simple thing.

@maddtechwf
I am with Dreamhost since 2005. Love the guys! Always get speedy replies when I have a support request. Their control panel is a beauty. If ever you need to use the Discussions Forum, ferret out the answers by rlparker. He is one hell of a nice and very well informed guy and extremely helpful! When he answers support tickets he always gives more and quality advice then you expect.
BTW
Are you using subdirectories or subdomains? If you plan to use absolutely subdomains for whatever reason you will find that DreamHost this only allows on Private Virtual Servers. The wild card DNS must be requested as this can only be done by the staff! Doing some asterix (*) stuff yourself won’t work! You have to give a pretty good reason why you absolutely need it, as they are not really in favour of it.
Cheers!