Title: Upgrade without Root Access
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Upgrade without Root Access

 *  [neumannu47](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neumannu47/)
 * (@neumannu47)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-without-root-access/)
 * Since I’m on a shared server, I do not have root access. Version 1.0.1 is installed.
   Can I, then, install the upgrade to 1.2 without root access? The installation
   does not seem overly complicated, except for tying into the database. Can I copy
   the settings from the present config file into the new config file and use the
   same database that the present installation is using? (The admin of the server
   I’m using will not want to bother with an upgrade, I think.)

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-without-root-access/#post-61107)
 * Present config settings will be fine (I’ve never altered my config file) and 
   the same db is also used.
 *  Thread Starter [neumannu47](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neumannu47/)
 * (@neumannu47)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-without-root-access/#post-61124)
 * Here is what I did. I installed the latest version in /wp instead of /wordpress.
   Then I copied config.php from /wordpress to /wp. Every time I tried to run /wp/
   index.php, I ended up in /wordpress. So, I renamed that folder. Then nothing 
   worked. I tried upgrade and install, to no avail. So, I went to phpMyAdmin and
   emptied the database. Then I had to run /wp/install.php. It tried to create database
   entries, but they already existed, so there were a lot of database errors. After
   all was said and done, I ran /wp/index.php, and all appears to be working correctly.
   
   It appears that I should have emptied the database before trying to reuse it.
   I pass that information along for the next newbie who has the same problem. In
   a brand new install, does install.php create the mySQL database, or does it have
   to be created manually? Linux is awesome, but since I don’t know much about it,
   I don’t know how WP knows how to tie into mySQL. There must be some system parameters
   that I cannot see that tie the two together.
 *  Thread Starter [neumannu47](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neumannu47/)
 * (@neumannu47)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-without-root-access/#post-61335)
 * No responses?

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [neumannu47](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neumannu47/)
 * Last activity: [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-without-root-access/#post-61335)
 * Status: not resolved

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