Re-installing concrete5
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I am a novice to concrete5, is it possible to reinstall concrete5 by just dropping the database tables and not deleting the whole upload from the server and uploading it again?
Great, thanks for that, my host seems very busy today (sunday!) so it is taking ages up loading the zip each time.
While developing on a host, I keep the zip in the site root directory. That way I can simply unzip it again (and Again) if I need to scrub and start again. I only delete the zip when I need to get the space back.
Great idea, thanks for that!
- You need to make sure the database is completely empty of tables.
- Remove any c5 specific parts of .htaccess (often just delete it)
- If you have uploaded any files, you may want to clear out the /files directory to avoid an accumulation of inaccessible files.
- You will need to delete the config that contains the database information. Have a look at the zip and check which config files are not in it (but are in your current install), those will the the file(s) you need to delete. The core looks for the config to decide if it is already installed or not.
That varies between 5.6 and 5.7, and I think there may be some variation between earlier and later 5.7 (not sure on that).
By the time you have gone through all of the above, it may be easier to just scrub all and unpack the zip again.