Wordpress -- Yikes. Install issues

[Crops]

Hey guys...

New member here, fresh from signing up and registering a new domain and account. (You're looking at the owner of "www.dogsoverlava.com"....)

Anyway - came here specifically to use Wordpress. From what I gather, at the moment I have a temporary URL while waiting the 24 to 72 hours for the actual one to take affect.
It's "http://dogsoverlava.temp.powweb.com/". Now from the main OP section, the wordpress javascript to auto install does not work (I'm assuming because it is configured for the Permanent URL.)

So I decide to do it from scratch...
First I create a database in mysql.....
second I download WP1.5
I setup the wp-config as per the instructions, configuring it for my newley created database and username with correct password.
I upload the WP files to the htdocs folder using my FTP client
I then access the "install.php" file using firefox through the WEBftp gateway.....
I get the following errors.....

hide_errors(); $installed = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->users"); if ($installed) die(__('
Already Installed

You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.
')); $wpdb->show_errors(); switch($step) { case 0: ?>

Now I've done nothing to the database -- it's empty
I've deleted all the files and re-uploaded everything...
always the same error.

What am I doing wrong?

Any Help would be great.
Rob

[alphadesk]

Hi Rob ...

You will need to wait till your domain name propagates. Until then I would FTP to your server delete the wordprss files, drop/delete the wp_ tables in your DB

Then try a fresh install. If you can't get it to work then come on back and I'll do a manual install for you. Takes about 15 minutes.

[Crops]

LOL... I just sent you a PM.... Thanks for the input. I guess I'll just have to be patient. Many Thanks.

[Crops]

OK... here's what was wrong. I had done everything right, EXCEPT when I originally edited the wp-config.php file, I saved it as a .txt file instead. This is why installation failed and I got the weird message. I spotted the error while browsing the files and remembering my seseme street "one of these things is not like the other..."

So I have alphadesk and big bird to thanks. Many thanks.