Moved a Wordpress Blog - now it wants to Reinstall

Question

I moved a Wordpress blog from one server to another. I was able to import the database through PHPmyAdmin and the files are all in place but instead of the expected home page I am getting the following at the end of the URL:

wp-admin/install.php

Edit: my apologies. I imported the wrong database. Need to close out the posting.

Answer 1

Look for a config file, and make sure that it's pointing to the right database.

Answer 2

Look at your database with phpmyadmin and be sure you got the tables and database imported OK.

Did you follow these instructions?: Moving WordPress « WordPress Codex

Answer 3

Could be you need to set the $table_prefix in your wp-config.php file to the correct value. Look at your database that contains the WordPress tables. If the posts table is called wp123_posts then your wp-config.php should have this:

$table_prefix = 'wp123_';

Note: If WordPress sees a new $table_prefix it tries to do an install.

Answer 4

My apologies to everyone. I made an error in uploading the wrong database. Thanks for all the help.