Title: Existing Network Detected
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Existing Network Detected

 *  [rogerwhitson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogerwhitson/)
 * (@rogerwhitson)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/existing-network-detected/)
 * Hi everyone,
 * I installed WordPress 3.0 — enabled the blog network. Then, I needed to disable
   the blog network at one point (I can’t remember why). Anyway, I tried to reenable
   the blog network and I got this error message:
 * “An existing WordPress network was detected.”
 * I thought this was due to the earlier network I had. So, I went into phpmyadmin
   and deleted the tables labelled wp_blogs, thinking this would solve the problem.
 * However, I went back to wp-admin/network and found the same error message.
 * Any thoughts on whether there could be other existing networks on the server,
   how I can find them, and what I can do? Perhaps this could be due to the code
   on wp_config and .htaccess still being there? I didn’t delete this code before
   deleting the blogs tables on phpmyadmin

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 *  Thread Starter [rogerwhitson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogerwhitson/)
 * (@rogerwhitson)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/existing-network-detected/#post-1583093)
 * BTW, here’s screenshots of my tables:
 * [http://twitpic.com/259esm](http://twitpic.com/259esm)
    [http://twitpic.com/259f08](http://twitpic.com/259f08)
   [http://twitpic.com/259f66](http://twitpic.com/259f66)
 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/existing-network-detected/#post-1583127)
 * yeah you have a ton of network tables in there. all the ones with “site” in them
   are the old terms they coudln’t change. site = network.
 * I can dig up a list, but i know they’re in another post somewhere.
 *  Thread Starter [rogerwhitson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogerwhitson/)
 * (@rogerwhitson)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/existing-network-detected/#post-1583154)
 * Should I just delete them? Or would that crash my site?

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 * [blogs](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/blogs/)
 * [phpmyadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/phpmyadmin/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [rogerwhitson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogerwhitson/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/existing-network-detected/#post-1583154)
 * Status: not resolved

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