By poo master on

I had drupal 6 installed on my godaddy hosting my web page for a month now. I decided to host another domain on the same account. Well I decided to do the auto install for the second domain in the process godaddy is saying I cleared the default location and did not enter a folder so it installed in in the root over the existing install

This all seems to be true the only problem is that all my modules seem to be there is this possible?

It does not seem to be the Acquia version either.

Share this, comment notify, and service links are some unique modules that I had installed and are still there. They are only where I had my original site not the other install I did for the second domain. There is also a custom theme I had and that is still there.

I guess I just do not understand how it could erase all my content in the install process but not my modules or a custom theme I had.
Does anyone know what is going on?

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vm commented

Of course it's possible and is a reason NOT to use a one click install on a host to create a production environment for any website. Great for testing of scripts but as you can see, you can have headaches because you have no control over what the install is doing.

what happened is likely that the 2nd installation overwrote your Database which is where the bulk of drupal lives.

beyond that, the install script didn't delete anything it just overwrote all the files that were there with new ones. Thus modules and custom themes would still be there because the installation from the host script doesn't include these modules or themes.

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poo master commented

Thanks
Lesson learned