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Title: wordpress installed already Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # wordpress installed already * Resolved [dheks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dheks/) * (@dheks) * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installed-already/) * hello i get this error message this is the first time i installed wordpress * > <?php _e(‘WordPress › Installation’); ? > ” type=”text/css” /> text_direction) ) : ?> ” type=”text/css” />

’.__(‘Already Installed’).'

’.__(‘You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.’).'

’); * switch($step) { case 0: * thank you for your time danielle Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/) * (@jeremyclark13) * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installed-already/#post-620003) * Your web server isn’t configured to process php files. Ask your web host about adding php functionality. Have a look [here ](http://codex.wordpress.org/Hosting_WordPress#Server_requirements) to see what wordpress requires to work. * Thread Starter [dheks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dheks/) * (@dheks) * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installed-already/#post-620009) * i know my host allows php but i don’t know what version they use i will contact them about what you sad * thank you for the help * [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/) * (@jeremyclark13) * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installed-already/#post-620014) * Well if what you posted is what you see when your installing wordpress then they don’t have php installed for your account. * Thread Starter [dheks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dheks/) * (@dheks) * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installed-already/#post-620090) * i got a email from my host and they have PHP: 4.3.2 MySQL: 3.23.58 Apache: 2.0.4 * so i have installed the wrong version 2.2.3 i see that i must install Version 2.0 i will do that now * thanks again for pointing me in the right direction * Thread Starter [dheks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dheks/) * (@dheks) * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installed-already/#post-620094) * i see that there are alot of other versions to download which version would you recommend for me * hope i don’t bother you * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installed-already/#post-620096) * There are two branches now: 2.0.x 2.2.x Always find the latest. For 2.0.x should be 2.0.11: [http://wordpress.org/download/legacy/](http://wordpress.org/download/legacy/) * [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/) * (@jeremyclark13) * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installed-already/#post-620098) * If your host won’t upgrade their mysql then the latest you can install is 2.0.11. It can be found [here](http://wordpress.org/download/legacy/). No bother that’s what the forums are for questions. 🙂 * Thread Starter [dheks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dheks/) * (@dheks) * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installed-already/#post-620197) * oke back again 😉 i have installed version 2.0.11. and i see now for the first time wordpress on my screen so i am already happy with that but unfortionately with i believe is the same error * ``` wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started. Need more help? We got it. You can create a wp-config.php file through a web interface, but this doesn't work for all server setups. The safest way is to manually create the file."); require_once('../wp-config.php'); require_once('./upgrade-functions.php'); $schema = ( isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && strtolower($_SERVER['HTTPS']) == 'on' ) ? 'https://' : 'http://'; $guessurl = str_replace('/wp-admin/install.php?step=2', '', $schema . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) ); if (isset($_GET['step'])) $step = $_GET['step']; else $step = 0; header( 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' ); ?> 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'); ?> ERROR: please type your e-mail address")); } else if (!is_email($admin_email)) { die (__("ERROR: the e-mail address isn't correct")); } ?> query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->linkcategories (cat_id, cat_name) VALUES (1, '".$wpdb->escape(__('Blogroll'))."')"); $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES ('http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/', 'Donncha', 1, 'http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/feed/', '');"); $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES ('http://zengun.org/weblog/', 'Michel', 1, 'http://zengun.org/weblog/feed/', '');"); $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES ('http://boren.nu/', 'Ryan', 1, 'http://boren.nu/feed/', '');"); $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES ('http://photomatt.net/', 'Matt', 1, 'http://xml.photomatt.net/feed/', '');"); $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES ('http://zed1.com/journalized/', 'Mike', 1, 'http://zed1.com/journalized/feed/', '');"); $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES ('http://www.alexking.org/', 'Alex', 1, 'http://www.alexking.org/blog/wp-rss2.php', '');"); $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_rss, link_notes) VALUES ('http://dougal.gunters.org/', 'Dougal', 1, 'http://dougal.gunters.org/feed/', '');"); // Default category $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->categories (cat_ID, cat_name, category_nicename, category_count, category_description) VALUES ('0', '".$wpdb->escape(__('Uncategorized'))."', '".sanitize_title(__('Uncategorized'))."', '1', '')"); // First post $now = date('Y-m-d H:i:s'); $now_gmt = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s'); $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->posts (post_author, post_date, post_date_gmt, post_content, post_excerpt, post_title, post_category, post_name, post_modified, post_modified_gmt, comment_count, to_ping, pinged, post_content_filtered) VALUES ('1', '$now', '$now_gmt', '".$wpdb->escape(__('Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!'))."', '', '".$wpdb->escape(__('Hello world!'))."', '0', '".$wpdb->escape(__('hello-world'))."', '$now', '$now_gmt', '1', '', '', '')"); $wpdb->query( "INSERT INTO $wpdb->post2cat (rel_id, post_id, category_id) VALUES (1, 1, 1)" ); // Default comment $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->comments (comment_post_ID, comment_author, comment_author_email, comment_author_url, comment_date, comment_date_gmt, comment_content) VALUES ('1', '".$wpdb->escape(__('Mr WordPress'))."', '', 'http://wordpress.org/', '$now', '$now_gmt', '".$wpdb->escape(__('Hi, this is a comment. To delete a comment, just log in and view the post's comments. There you will have the option to edit or delete them.'))."')"); // First Page $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->posts (post_author, post_date, post_date_gmt, post_content, post_excerpt, post_title, post_category, post_name, post_modified, post_modified_gmt, post_status, to_ping, pinged, post_content_filtered) VALUES ('1', '$now', '$now_gmt', '".$wpdb->escape(__('This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress.'))."', '', '".$wpdb->escape(__('About'))."', '0', '".$wpdb->escape(__('about'))."', '$now', '$now_gmt', 'static', '', '', '')"); $wp_rewrite->flush_rules(); // Set up admin user $random_password = substr(md5(uniqid(microtime())), 0, 6); $display_name_array = explode('@', $admin_email); $display_name = $display_name_array[0]; $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->users (ID, user_login, user_pass, user_email, user_registered, display_name, user_nicename) VALUES ( '1', 'admin', MD5('$random_password'), '$admin_email', NOW(), '$display_name', 'admin')"); $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->usermeta (user_id, meta_key, meta_value) VALUES ({$wpdb->insert_id}, '{$table_prefix}user_level', '10');"); $admin_caps = serialize(array('administrator' => true)); $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->usermeta (user_id, meta_key, meta_value) VALUES ({$wpdb->insert_id}, '{$table_prefix}capabilities', '{$admin_caps}');"); $message_headers = 'From: "' . $weblog_title . '" log in with the username "admin" and password "%2$s".'), '../wp-login.php', $random_password); ?> Note that password carefully! It is a random password that was generated just for you. If you lose it, you will have to delete the tables from the database yourself, and re-install WordPress. So to review:'); ?> ``` * admin wp-login.php * Thread Starter [dheks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dheks/) * (@dheks) * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installed-already/#post-620200) * i have deleted my database to and made a new one but without succes * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installed-already/#post-620202) * This goes back to Jeremy23’s original reply: Your web server isn’t processing PHP files. You’re seeing all of the source, instead of the rendered result. * Have your host follow that install link — and then ask them to fix it. * Thread Starter [dheks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dheks/) * (@dheks) * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installed-already/#post-620212) * oke i will do that thank you Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) The topic ‘wordpress installed already’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 11 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [dheks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dheks/) * Last activity: [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-installed-already/#post-620212) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics