Re-running install.php - howto

[Gazley]

Hi there,

I'm just in the middle of installing a PW site on a live server. I pointed the browser at the domain before I had called the install.php script. An error message occurred that I failed to record 

However, I pointed the browser at the site specifying the install.php script but I get the following message in the browser:

"This installer has already run. Please delete it."

It most definitely hasn't presented the installation options or anything like that. My question is whether and how I can re-run the install.php script?

I have since renamed htaccess.txt to .htaccess

If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd be very grateful indeed! 

Cheers

--Gary

Edited July 13, 2013 by Gazley

[diogo]

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[Gazley]

Thanks diogo!

[diogo]

You don't have to point the browser to the installer. Look, this is the line in index.php that decides if the installer should be run:

if(!$config->dbName && is_file("./install.php") && strtolower($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) == strtolower($rootURL)) {
        require("./install.php");
        exit(0);
    }

So, if there isn't a $config->dbName property yet, and the install.php file is there. You will get to the installer. So, that error message doesn't have anything to do with you calling the index instead of the installer.

Can you confirm in your config.php file if you have a $config->dbName directive?

Edit: anyway, you can always just replace the content of the config.php file buy the original content and delete the db table and create another one. 

[Gazley]

Hi diogo

Thanks for replying

The $config->dbName directive is in the file. However, this will be from my localhost that I pushed to GitHub and then cloned into my Root folder on the live server.

So, the DB isn't installed in MySQL even though it is specified in the config file.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

--Gary

[diogo]

hm, I'm not sure what you are trying to do. But the error message comes from this line in the installer:

if(is_file("./site/assets/installed.php")) die("This installer has already run. Please delete it."); 

...so, I guess you would have to remove that file from the assets folder.

[Gazley]

Hi diogo,

Boy I'm confused now. I deleted the installed file and copied a new version of config.php. This then allowed me to go through the install procedure. Happy days, it went through fine.

I tried to load my index page but immediately, PW logged an error:

Error: Exception: Unable to install module 'TextformatterVideoEmbed': Table 'textformatter_video_embed' already exists

I don't know why PW is trying to install this module because it is already installed?

When I load the site in admin mode, I see a new "standard" page tree configuration of PW and not the page tree configuration that I restored into the DB. However, if I check the DB, I see my restored DB on the live server. In config.php on the live server, it is indeed pointing to the correct DB so I don't understand why PW admin mode isn't loading the page structure from the DB?

Just to give some background (your earlier comment suggested I wasn't clear enough in describing what I had done):

The site has been developed on my MAMP localhost.

I have the site folder on GitHub

I cloned the site folder from GitHub into the document root on my live server

I restored the associated DB from my local MySQL onto my live server's MySQL

Any ideas?

Thanks

--Gary

[Gazley]

Problem resolved. I renamed the "site" folder and re-installed from GitHub. I ran that against my DB and it all worked. Seems that "installing" PW is not really required when you have an existing site that you can "copy".

If my assumption isn't correct, I'd like to be corrected so I can understand this situation better

Thanks for the help!

--Gary

[diogo]

If you only want to move the website, you don't need to run the installer again. All you need is to import the database, move the files to the server, adjust the necessary permissions if needed, and update the database permissions on the config file.

Edit: Oh, I didn't see your last post. Sorry that I understood what you wanted wrongly. I thought you were doing some weird experiment