I am installing an new bbpress forum and the following error happended.

‘An old config.php file has been detected in your installation. You should remove it and run the installer again. You can use the same database connection details if you do.’

How can I resolve it?

[@banago Member 16 years, 8 months ago]

Please!

[@sambauers Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

The installer will throw that error if it finds a file called config.php in either the bbPress directory or the directory above it (i.e. the parent directory that the bbPress directory is in)

Make sure there is no config.php file in either location.

[@ogoog500 Member 16 years, 1 month ago]

this is kind of annoying, and i don’t see any reason for it. i have my forums at /forums but i keep a config.php file in / that contains other config settings for my site. just because i have a config.php in / should not stop /forums/bb-config.php from working..

[@rohan_shenoy Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

If you have a config.php file in an directory above it, temporarily rename that config.php to x_config.php or some other name. Now complete the bbPress installation and then again rename x_config.php to config.php.

That solved my issue.