problems installing

[wcnesmith]

Hey guys,

I am having problems installing SMF (new install).  After I copy the files over to my website/forum and I go to it, it ask me for all my db info.  I put all that info in and it comes up with this after I continue.

The installer has detected another version of SMF already installed with the specified information. If you are trying to upgrade, you should use the upgrader, not the installer.

Otherwise, you may wish to use different information, or create a backup and then delete the data currently in the database.

Click here to try this step again.



After that I can't get back to that screen to input the info (I could if I deleted all the files and recopied them but still get same error)

But after that it comes up with a log in screen (without pictures, all unformatted) and I can't log in with any username and password.

What am I doing wrong??

The sql database I am putting in is a joomla database, but I don't think this is the problem.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers,

Wendell


*note* the first time I tried to set this up it did go to another screen and ask me to put the username and password of admin in, but then firefox crashed.  I don't know what files it overwrote so I can't get to this.  The files were not in the /forums folder because I tried to delete and recopy all of these 3 times.

[webgyrl]

Have you tried deleting all the files off your server using FTP and then starting again fresh?

[wcnesmith]

yes, I deleted all the files under the /forum section and then copied the new files to it to do the process again, and same problem.  Did that 3 times.

[Kindred]

it is detecting the existing tables in your database...

if you want a fresh install for real, go to your database and drop all of the tables that start with smf_

[wcnesmith]

I logged on to my joomla database and all I have is these:
jos_ is the extension my sql db provider has given me.  Should I delete these?  I don't want to mess up the current joomla install that is there.  Thats all that is there, and it doesn't look like any of the following are part of smf (except the jsmf which is the add-in and doesn't have any of the smf db info in it yet)

    * Browse jos_attachments
    * Browse jos_ban_groups
    * Browse jos_ban_items
    * Browse jos_banner
    * Browse jos_bannerclient
    * Browse jos_bannerfinish
    * Browse jos_board_permissions
    * Browse jos_boards
    * Browse jos_calendar
    * Browse jos_calendar_holidays
    * Browse jos_categories
    * Browse jos_collapsed_categories
    * Browse jos_components
    * Browse jos_contact_details
    * Browse jos_content
    * Browse jos_content_frontpage
    * Browse jos_content_rating
    * Browse jos_core_acl_aro
    * Browse jos_core_acl_aro_groups
    * Browse jos_core_acl_aro_sections
    * Browse jos_core_acl_groups_aro_map
    * Browse jos_core_log_items
    * Browse jos_core_log_searches
    * Browse jos_groups
    * Browse jos_jsmf_config
    * Browse jos_log_actions
    * Browse jos_log_activity
    * Browse jos_log_banned
    * Browse jos_log_boards
    * Browse jos_log_errors
    * Browse jos_log_floodcontrol
    * Browse jos_log_karma
    * Browse jos_log_mark_read
    * Browse jos_log_notify
    * Browse jos_log_online
    * Browse jos_log_polls
    * Browse jos_log_search_messages
    * Browse jos_log_search_results
    * Browse jos_log_search_subjects
    * Browse jos_log_search_topics
    * Browse jos_log_topics
    * Browse jos_mambots
    * Browse jos_membergroups
    * Browse jos_members
    * Browse jos_menu
    * Browse jos_message_icons
    * Browse jos_messages
    * Browse jos_messages_cfg
    * Browse jos_moderators
    * Browse jos_modules
    * Browse jos_modules_menu
    * Browse jos_newsfeeds
    * Browse jos_package_servers
    * Browse jos_permissions
    * Browse jos_personal_messages
    * Browse jos_pm_recipients
    * Browse jos_poll_choices
    * Browse jos_poll_data
    * Browse jos_poll_date
    * Browse jos_poll_menu
    * Browse jos_polls
    * Browse jos_sections
    * Browse jos_session
    * Browse jos_sessions
    * Browse jos_settings
    * Browse jos_smileys
    * Browse jos_stats_agents
    * Browse jos_template_positions
    * Browse jos_templates_menu
    * Browse jos_themes
    * Browse jos_topics
    * Browse jos_users
    * Browse jos_usertypes
    * Browse jos_weblinks

[Orstio]

You should never install SMF with the same prefix as Joomla.  They can reside in the same database without the same prefix.

[wcnesmith]

oh, so how do I fix this?

[Orstio]

After I copy the files over to my website/forum and I go to it, it ask me for all my db info.  I put all that info in and it comes up with this after I continue.

At this step, type in "smf_" where you currently have "jos_".

[wcnesmith]

That isn't working some reason.  It looks like it is still using the old information. (the one I set up originally)

[wcnesmith]

Got it working, there was some smf jos_ stuck..  I waited a while and it worked.  Thanks for all your helps!