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

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# “WordPress Already Installed” ???

 *  [Douglas Bell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webmacster87/)
 * (@webmacster87)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-already-installed/)
 * I’m trying to install WordPress, and the install script gives me “Already Installed
 * You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your
   old database tables first.”
    The problem is that this is not true! I haven’t 
   installed WordPress before, and the database table that I’m installing it to 
   was created in CPanel 5 minutes ago! Why is it giving me this?

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 *  Thread Starter [Douglas Bell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webmacster87/)
 * (@webmacster87)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-already-installed/#post-260070)
 * *bump*
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-already-installed/#post-260072)
 * _and the database table that I’m installing it to was created in CPanel 5 minutes
   ago_
 * 1. Don’t bump, please. Helpers are allergic to that word 🙂
    2. You are not supposed
   to create “tables” – only an empty database. If you created tables that’s the
   reason the install script “thinks” WP is already installed. Creating the tables
   is the task of that script.
 *  Thread Starter [Douglas Bell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webmacster87/)
 * (@webmacster87)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-already-installed/#post-260075)
 * What I meant was an empty database. I created an empty database, which is the
   one I specified. When it gave me the error, I deleted it and recreated it, and
   it still gave me that error. The database is empty, not a single table in it.
 * I do have an installation of WordPress on a DIFFERENT DATABASE on the same server,
   would that cause an error?
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-already-installed/#post-260076)
 * Are you sure the 4 pieces of info in your wp-config.php file are pointing to 
   the new database and not to the old one?
 *  Thread Starter [Douglas Bell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webmacster87/)
 * (@webmacster87)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-already-installed/#post-260077)
 * I am positive. I checked it over and over again.
 *  Thread Starter [Douglas Bell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webmacster87/)
 * (@webmacster87)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-already-installed/#post-260078)
 * Oops, I found my error! I went to the install script of the other WP installation
   I had already installed! Sorry! *embarrassed*
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-already-installed/#post-260079)
 * I have WP installations that are in _the same_ database (just different prefix)
   and still no problems.
 * Edit. Glad you sorted it out.

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## Tags

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

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 7 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-already-installed/#post-260079)
 * Status: not resolved

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