Title: WP tables gone, install.php message
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WP tables gone, install.php message

 *  [lifecruiser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lifecruiser/)
 * (@lifecruiser)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-tables-gone-installphp-message/)
 * Suddenly, without me doing anything, no installation, upgrade or any change at
   all, I have no availability to my blog, I just get the message:
 * “It doesn’t look like you’ve installed WP yet. Try running install.php”.
 * When I take a check by phpMyAdmin, my tables in the WP database is gone. (It’s
   only a few left which I connect to some WP Plugins I have had).
 * What could have caused this?
 * My webhost, at first approach, doesn’t think they’ve done something and was mentioning
   security holes in installed scripts?
 * More Background:
 * At the August 21 they moved my account (among others) from one server to another
   to ease the burdon for the other server.
 * When they had done that I got a similar message but that I needed to upgrade 
   to the latest version. (Had 2.0.4 on the old server and here it was 2.0.2) So
   I clicked for the upgrade and everything went well. It was upgraded to 2.0.4.
 * Then I noticed that they had put an old backup from the 10th of August there,
   which they corrected. Still, the missed files (mostly images) I had put up there
   between the 10th and the 21th. No problem, I put them back myself.
 * Since then everything has been working except from the sitemap plugin, which 
   did work on the other server with the same version.
 * I have NOT done any changes other from maybe some small changes in the sidebar.
   php.
 * Suddenly tonight, I have no WP database. When I take a look in the Controlpanel(
   normally the installs/upgrades are done from here) it says that I have WP version
   2.0.2, how can that be when it was upgraded the 21th to 2.0.4?
 * What would you do in this situation?
 * I still have some contact with the webhost. If they/I put back a backup of the
   database (don’t know yet if there are any fresh ones done…), is that gonna help
   or must I run this install script?
 * Or do you have any other suggestions to make?
 * I’m very tired, it’s 02:30 in the morning here, so I may go to bed and hopefully
   when I wake up again, you (or they) have come with some nice help for me…
 * (Born optimist 😉

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 *  Thread Starter [lifecruiser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lifecruiser/)
 * (@lifecruiser)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-tables-gone-installphp-message/#post-454437)
 * UPDATE:
 * While I was wroting this earlier post it become obvious that my blog is hijacked.(
   still is)
 * How to stop a hijacker in best way?
 * Both now directly and to prevent such happening?

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