Title: Redirect to wp-admin/install.php Error …
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Redirect to wp-admin/install.php Error …

 *  [bananartista](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bananartista/)
 * (@bananartista)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-to-wp-admininstallphp-error/)
 * Suddenly, without doing nothing,
    i discover that my self-hosted blog [http://www.bananartista.com/blog](http://www.bananartista.com/blog)
   doesn’t work anymore. Instead it loads and redirects to the wp-admin/install.
   php page …
 * I’ve tried to delete and reupload wp-admin , wp-includes folders
    and wp-.php
   root files but the problem persists.
 * What can i do to solve it ?
 * thank you

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-to-wp-admininstallphp-error/#post-5246978)
 * That will only happen if WordPress can’t find any of its tables inside the database
   it’s connecting to.
 * Check your MySQL database, is it still in tact? Also, check your wp-config.php
   file to make sure that the set table prefix matches the prefix on your database
   tables.
 *  Thread Starter [bananartista](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bananartista/)
 * (@bananartista)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-to-wp-admininstallphp-error/#post-5247028)
 * ….
    MySQL database is not intact. Is it possible that someone hacked it? Is it
   possibile for an hacker to access the database and delete all the tables ? Or
   what could have happened?
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-to-wp-admininstallphp-error/#post-5247029)
 * Yes, if all of the tables are missing in the database, I’d say it’s very possible
   that someone gained access to the database or your hosting account and removed
   them.
 * Do you have any backups that you could restore from?
 *  Thread Starter [bananartista](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bananartista/)
 * (@bananartista)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-to-wp-admininstallphp-error/#post-5247030)
 * No … I didn’t make tha backup …
 * But … how can they access to it ?
 * And … how I can protect it ?
 *  [sffandom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sffandom/)
 * (@sffandom)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-to-wp-admininstallphp-error/#post-5247031)
 * Start by changing your hosting account passwords. And check to make sure that
   your hosting account email has not been changed.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-to-wp-admininstallphp-error/#post-5247032)
 * If you use a week database password, it can be easy to guess, the same goes for
   your hosting account.
 * Have you contacted your hosting provider about this yet?

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 * [wp-admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-admin/)

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 * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-to-wp-admininstallphp-error/#post-5247032)
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