Localhost Joomla Website Uninstall and Deletion

It is safer to assume that there is high probability of making mistakes while installing your joomla 1.5 website in localhost environment. Should this happen, then it is important that you should be equipped with the right knowledge or technical information to work around the problem and restart with fresh installation of joomla 1.5 CMS in your localhost environment without any hitch.

Therefore, in this tutorial, we will go through a detail instruction on installing your joomla website the second time after failed initial installation.

Rational on technique to for pre-reinstallation of your localhost joomla website
To err is human and that does apply to us when we try to install joomla cms on top of your WAMP server. What make thing worst in the event of fail installation is that we couldn’t find out the whereabouts of the problem that trigger nuisance error. Luckily, you wouldn’t need panic because you can just perform reinstall. In reinstallation process, most joomla user will encountered another error messages prompting that the database created cannot being used to perform reinstallation, corrupt installation files and few other problems. At the end of this technique, you’ll clean-up your database and prepared new installation files in order to wipe out the problems of joomla 1.5 reinstallation processes.

Cleaning Up The Database

• After launching your Wampserver, go to phpMyadmin. Now, click on the database name (at the right column) used for the installation.

• Then go to Operations tab and click it.

• Once you are in table view of your database, scroll down to the bottom of your browser then click on ‘Check All’ link. This will result in color change to orange for all tables view.

• Look at the drop-down box at the right side. Select ‘Drop’ to drop/remove all the selected tables.

• A confirmation page will appear and list of all tables will be viewed for your reference. Don’t mind on that, just click ‘Yes’ button to proceed.

• Finally, a success notification will be generated informing you on the success of deletion of all tables inside the database. Now the database is empty and ready to be used again.

Removing and reinstalling the installation files
At your Root Folder, totally remove the Joomla installation folder. To locate the Root Folder, refer to Joomla Installation Tutorial.

Restart your Joomla installation
At this point, you are already prepared for the reinstallation process. Proceed with the installation as you can find in Joomla Installation Tutorial.