Title: Error: “Already Installed”
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Error: “Already Installed”

 *  Resolved [monnibo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monnibo/)
 * (@monnibo)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-already-installed/)
 * To my knowledge, I have everything in my database correct and my username, password,
   host. I have used WordPress before but I was on a subdomain and didn’t set it
   up myself. Now I’m trying to set it up myself on a new domain and when I go to
   wp_admin/install.php, it tells me that first, it can’t find wp_config.php and
   that it’s already installed and I need to delete my database tables.
 * wp_config.php is there, I’ve renamed it from wp_config-sample.php, altered it
   accordingly, and uploaded it on my server with all the other files. Why isn’t
   it recognizing it?
 * And I went into phpMyAdmin and checked my database, there are no old tables there.
   In fact, it tells me that no tables currently even exist.
 * I have installed it before, but on a completely different server. I’ve redownloaded
   the most recent version and everything. I am stuck,stuck,stuck!
 * Can someone help me?
 * If you’d like me to copy and paste EXACTLY what install.php reads, I can. There
   is a LOT of php coding in it. Definitely an error somewhere but I can’t find 
   it.

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 *  [masquerade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/masquerade/)
 * (@masquerade)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-already-installed/#post-270777)
 * The file is supposed to be wp-config.php, not wp_config.php.
 *  Thread Starter [monnibo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monnibo/)
 * (@monnibo)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-already-installed/#post-270778)
 * I fixed it… I have no idea how but I did. Oh that was just a typo, bad me. I 
   had it named the right thing on my server. Straaange though because I just started
   clicking files and it worked.
 *  [fry2006](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fry2006/)
 * (@fry2006)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-already-installed/#post-270784)
 * Try changing the database prefix maybe?
 *  [skrai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skrai/)
 * (@skrai)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-already-installed/#post-270896)
 * <—
    hide_errors(); $installed = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM $wpdb->users”);
   if ($installed) die(__(‘ Already Installed
 * You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your
   old database tables first.
 * ‘) . ”); $wpdb->show_errors(); switch($step) { case 0: ?>
 * —>
 * This is part of the error message I get when I try to install wp in my subdomain.
   I have wp installed and running in the main domain. I want to install another
   wp in the subdomain. I have created a separate database for the subdomain with
   different user name and password. But I’m not able to proceed. Am I doing something
   wrong? I did go through the documents and forums but don’t to seem to have moved
   forward. Thanks in advance for any help.
 *  [laughing247xo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laughing247xo/)
 * (@laughing247xo)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-already-installed/#post-271025)
 * `hide_errors(); $installed = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->users");
   if ($installed) die('
    '.__('Already Installed').'
 * '.__('You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear
   your old database tables first.').'
 * '); $wpdb->show_errors(); switch($step) { case 0: ?>
    ReadMe documentation at
   your leisure.'), '../readme.html'); ?>
 * That was part of the error message I got when I also tried to run the installation.
   But I have no database to be deleted. Help please! I have no idea what to do.

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## Tags

 * [already](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/already/)
 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [installed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installed/)
 * [tables](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tables/)
 * [wp_config.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp_config-php/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [laughing247xo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laughing247xo/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-already-installed/#post-271025)
 * Status: resolved

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