{"id":56513,"date":"2015-10-27T04:58:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T08:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/?p=56513"},"modified":"2018-02-09T08:20:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:20:57","slug":"magento-how-to-reinstall-the-engine-without-re-uploading-the-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/magento-how-to-reinstall-the-engine-without-re-uploading-the-files.html","title":{"rendered":"Magento. How to reinstall the engine without re-uploading the files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<p>This tutorial shows how to <strong>reinstall Magento engine without re-uploading the files<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZZxi-UVTpbU?width=1280&amp;height=720\" rel=\"prettyPhoto\">Magento. How to reinstall the engine without re-uploading the files<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>Sometimes it is necessary to reinstall the Magento engine. This should be done, for example, when you are trying to install the template and the sample data after the Magento engine installation. In order to reinstall the Magento engine and the database from scratch, you should do the following:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"inline-banner\">\r\n<img src=\"\/help\/files\/banners\/zmz\/tmh\/en\/1_3.png\" onclick=\"showChat()\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Get access to your database using the <strong>PhpMyAdmin<\/strong> tool or some other one and <i>drop<\/i> all the tables. In case you can&#8217;t drop some tables, <i>empty<\/i> them:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Magento._How_to_reinstall_the_engine_without_re-uploading_the_files_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Magento._How_to_reinstall_the_engine_without_re-uploading_the_files_1-300x181.png\" alt=\"Magento._How_to_reinstall_the_engine_without_re-uploading_the_files_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-56514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Magento._How_to_reinstall_the_engine_without_re-uploading_the_files_1-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Magento._How_to_reinstall_the_engine_without_re-uploading_the_files_1-150x91.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Magento._How_to_reinstall_the_engine_without_re-uploading_the_files_1-1024x619.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Magento._How_to_reinstall_the_engine_without_re-uploading_the_files_1.png 1197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Open the Magento root on your server and go to <strong>app\/etc<\/strong> folder and delete the <strong><i>local.xml<\/i><\/strong> file:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Magento._How_to_reinstall_the_engine_without_re-uploading_the_files_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Magento._How_to_reinstall_the_engine_without_re-uploading_the_files_2-300x190.png\" alt=\"Magento._How_to_reinstall_the_engine_without_re-uploading_the_files_2\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-56515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Magento._How_to_reinstall_the_engine_without_re-uploading_the_files_2-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Magento._How_to_reinstall_the_engine_without_re-uploading_the_files_2-150x95.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Magento._How_to_reinstall_the_engine_without_re-uploading_the_files_2.png 641w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Then open your Magento store and you will see the primary installation page, so you can start the installation procedure:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Magento._How_to_reinstall_the_engine_without_re-uploading_the_files_3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Magento._How_to_reinstall_the_engine_without_re-uploading_the_files_3-300x226.png\" alt=\"Magento._How_to_reinstall_the_engine_without_re-uploading_the_files_3\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-56516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Magento._How_to_reinstall_the_engine_without_re-uploading_the_files_3-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Magento._How_to_reinstall_the_engine_without_re-uploading_the_files_3-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Magento._How_to_reinstall_the_engine_without_re-uploading_the_files_3.png 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Make sure to import <strong>dump.sql<\/strong> first if you want to install the template with sample data according to this tutorial:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/magento-install-template-sample-data.html\">Magento. How to install template and sample data<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<div class=\"inline-banner\">\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/service-center\/\">\r\n<img src=\"\/help\/files\/banners\/inline\/Banner-2-(835-x100).jpg\"\/>\r\n<\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p>Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZZxi-UVTpbU?width=1280&amp;height=720\" rel=\"prettyPhoto\">Magento. How to reinstall the engine without re-uploading the files<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tutorial shows how to <strong>reinstall Magento engine without re-uploading the files<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":56518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[729],"tags":[918,2407,2101,1767],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56513"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84014,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56513\/revisions\/84014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}