I clicked on the 'Update WordPress' link in the admin dashboard of my WordPress site, and I am getting this error:
"The file 'wp-config.php' already exists. If you need to reset any of the
configuration items in this file, please delete it first. You may try installing now."
When I try to click the "installing now" link, it seems that WordPress is installing fresh. I want to keep all of the content of my WordPress installation.
I have tried to change the name of the wp-config.php file but that didn't do anything.
Is just a browser cache.
On first URL load, you are redirected from domain.ext to domain.ext/wp-admin/setup-config.php
If you are on Chrome, just open the developers console, go to "Network" tab. Reload the page and right click anywhere in the console, and hit "Clear browser cache".
Now refresh again and you will see your website
I ran into this same issue while I was transferring a site. The issue ended up being with the .htaccess file. I fixed it by resetting my permalinks. There may be other causes to this issue but this worked for me:
Click on General => Permalinks
Click Save Changes (to reset permalinks)
Try to display the website first on the incognito tab. If it works correctly, clear the browser cache.
Once the page refresh has been completed, the website will appear.
You can use the following shortcuts to clear the browser cache.
Windows: Ctrl + F5
Mac OS: CMD + Shift + R
This usually happens when you use an old version of Wordpress files or old database, and you use partly new files of Wordpress.
All you need to do is to delete all WP files and install a fresh Wordpress (new files unzipped from a new version of Wordpress) and use an empty database.
If you're planning to migrate or move from another website, you should use the export/import function built in wordpress.
he file wp-config.php already exists. If you need to reset any of the configuration items in this file, please delete it first. You may try installing now.
Answer:- Please Clear Your browser's cache.
Did I miss the party?
Today I have a problem like what you experienced 5 years ago. The solution is: Remove all caching plugins (Cloudflare, Jetpack, Litespeed).
Maybe you could try to delete 'wp-config.php' file, or take a backup of this file in different folder and then try again.
If you are using bluehost and did not do the one click install :
I solved this problem by deleting the default error pages 404.php 500.php etc...
I do not know why exactly this was causing this issue... Sorry for the sloppy answer but tried clearing cache and recreating the .htaccess file it didn't work.
I removed the added spaces that the Wordpress's own web 'easy installer' created in the wp-config.php file to help me out.
Guess the Wordpress's own wp-config.php ?checker? isn't compatible with Wordpress's own installer. Wow.
Once the added spaces were removed, site comes up fine. I simply modeled the spacing that is in the wp-config-sample.php file.
Because you just installed wp.
Just hit ctrl+F5 done!!!
More likely it is cache issue and this error comes when we try to install one Wordpress inside of another sub folder of the cpanel in the same Wordpress installation and it will be mostly resolved when you try to check it in the private window or another browser
For me it was file permission set to 666 changing it to 664 worked.
If someone is still for a solution.
This happened to me on an existing site while trying to update.
the problem was following line in wp-config.php near the end.
/** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/setup-config.php');
Removing this fixed the problem.
Hope this helps.
RESOLVED: I had the same problem. post hack situation on other account, shared hosting and server NUKED. Luckily I had the backup files from one of the WP plugins but the main page didnt load, I could only go to 404 and from there to other pages but not main page, the error was wp-config eists...install...blah blah blah.....so I tried everything, multiple re-installs, changed the wp_prefix as per previous install on the fresh install and nothing helped, even ordered paid support from the backup plugin developer as I was sure that it fooked because I had Opencart also installed there but the backup was intended for WP only, my web developer also did something, perhaps removed the OC bits from DB, but thank god i managed to resolve it on my own(and justhost),. so I contacted the justhost for the SECOND TIME and they told me that the account is on VARNISH i.e. some sort of automated cache limit, so I told them to take it off and they wanted to know what have I done to reduce the LOAD to the server, so I told this and that and two seconds later everything loaded perfectly. took me about 20 hours to get main page loading, plus probably it will take 10 hours for fine tuning of the site. anyway if you contact jour host make sure you ask them if they are not blocking cahce as the first time I got in contact they couldnt help me.
I also meet with same error and Mr Pierre R is right its just a cache. Just clear your cache or check in private window. All fine.
if someone have still this error..
goto->admin->setup.php (delete this file error will be solve)
hope this will help.
I copied my files for opencart store from my host and the db to work localy using xampp, but iam experiencing a little problem, the menu in the front end is broken it doesn't look structured.
The links works perfectly fine, i did change the config files to point to the correct folder, rewrite_module is on, changed #RewriteBase / so the links works fine.
I did even update opencart to make sure all files is there, but nothing i have tried is working.
Can someone please help me fix this problem? Have tried everything i can think of.
Iam using Opencart 1.5.6.4
you can see on the following image how the menus look bazaargadgets.com/corrupted menus.jpg
The CSS file isn't being loaded properly (or not at all).
Check to see If it does exist and not corrupted. Re-download anyway just to make sure.
If that doesn't solve your problem, look at the http headers to see exactly what's going on (press F12 in your browser to see dev tools - IE, FF & Chrome)
you may switch to default theme first,
if working fine, the image link might be broken of your current theme
check the image link
Ok I didn't see this anywhere and Google isn't helping it keeps directing me how to create a folder.
So my issue is this, I have a login page that I'm trying to test. When I hit f12 to show the page in a browser (on my localhost) some how dreamweaver is creating a new folder within a folder and placing the file I just saved in a completely different folder in there and renaming the file with random characters.
so in effect it is doing this :
file name is login.php, folder location is admin, so my page should show as this in the url
admin/login.php
but instead it is showing this
Mysite/Mysite/admin/KOyilwoe.php
is is actually creating these folders as well so it is showing in my dreamweaver folder structure as
Mysite/Mysite/Mysite/admin/KOyilwoe.php
Of course when it does this it breaks all links to images and any connections I'm trying to make to the database.
I am using Dreamweaver CS4 does anyone know why it would do this? I have tested many sites before on my localhost and never had this issue until this website. Is this possibly a setting in dreamweaver itself or would a javascript be causing it? I did try removing the javascript and it was still creating the new folders.
So I posted a similar question on Adobe's forums and they responded with this and yes it does fix the issue.
Dreamweaver creates a temporary page. It's created specifically for previewing.
You "should" be able to turn it off in the preferences...
Edit > Preferences >select Preview In Browser > uncheck the "Preview using temporary file" checkbox
EDIT: OOps, forgot the Preview In Browser selection.
I've been playing about with this plugin over the last few days, customising it and setting it up to work exactly as my site requires. I got it all working fine on my localhost server, with no errors/bugs. However, when I try to upload it to my Plesk server, no files are shown onload (even though there are images in the target folder), and when I try to upload im presented with the " Empty file upload result" error. Oddly.. the file upload seems to work even though its displaying the error, and the relevant images appear in the folder. So it seems to only he having a problem with reading, but not with writing?
I've checked the permissions of the files and thumbnails folder, and set them both to 777, so that cant be the issue.
I really cant see why this is working on my localhost server but not my Plesk server. Any help would be much appreciated.
Finally solved this issue. The problem was that my Plesk server was running a very old version of PHP. Updating it to 5.3 seems to have cleared up my issues.
After doing some changes to my plugin amtyThumb, I realized that there is some problem to access imgsize.php. But i dint change anything in imgsize.php.
If i put this script into some other folder other than plugin folder on my site, then everything is working fine. I am keeping file permission 644 on both places. Folder permission is 755 on both places. It is working fine if i run it locally on my PC.
I had checked .htaccess for hotlinking. But it is not enable.
visit article-stack to view the problem. If you open page in IE or chrome, you can see broken image sign or cross sign in place of images which should be appear just before the post title in sidebar.
In addition, I am using previous version of this plugin on my one of the sites where it is working fine. visit thinkzarahatke. All images in footer bar and sidebar, are being displayed through amtyThumb 1.0.
For debugging : I added some code to write to a text file (just to check). But even that code is not getting executed :(
After a long time i found the silly mistake i did. I actually was calling script resides in "amtyThumb" but the actual plugin url was having "amtythumb".