# Issue with Wordpress install on Yunohost saying an instance is installed when its not

**URL:** https://forum.yunohost.org/t/issue-with-wordpress-install-on-yunohost-saying-an-instance-is-installed-when-its-not/24499
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** english
**Created:** [April 23, 2023, 11:51pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/issue-with-wordpress-install-on-yunohost-saying-an-instance-is-installed-when-its-not/24499 "2023-04-23T23:51:37Z")
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### Author: ![ryand1994](https://forum.yunohost.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e9a140/32.png) [@ryand1994](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/ryand1994)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2023, 11:51pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/issue-with-wordpress-install-on-yunohost-saying-an-instance-is-installed-when-its-not/24499/1 "2023-04-23T23:51:38Z")

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My YunoHost server

**Hardware:** VPS bought online  
**YunoHost version:** 11.1.5.5  
**I have access to my server :** Through SSH | through the webadmin  
**Are you in a special context or did you perform some particular tweaking on your YunoHost instance ?** : no

### Description of my issue

Since updating the server to 11.1.5.5 i have been getting an error message

“Failed to read info for wordpress\_\_2 : Unknown error while trying to read file /etc/yunohost/apps/wordpress\_\_2/doc/DESCRIPTION\_fr.md (reason: ‘utf-8’ codec can’t decode byte 0xe9 in position 64: invalid continuation byte)”

I have tried going through SSH and Filezilla to access it but it doesnt exist, the wordpress instance doesn’t show up but when i try and restore from a backup it says it already exists, its weird.

![image](https://forum.yunohost.org/uploads/default/optimized/2X/b/bc1dda63daf2877ea48fcd380630a832d9c0df03_2_690x42.png)

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### Author: ![Aleks](https://forum.yunohost.org/user_avatar/forum.yunohost.org/aleks/32/1704_2.png) [@Aleks](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/Aleks)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2023, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/issue-with-wordpress-install-on-yunohost-saying-an-instance-is-installed-when-its-not/24499/2 "2023-04-26T15:37:20Z")

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> [@ryand1994](#):
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> but when i try and restore from a backup it says it already exists, its weird.

Then can you share actual details about this ?

Anyway you’re running 11.1.5 which is old and should upgrade to the newest version to fix the issue regarding DESCRIPTION.md’s encoding.

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### Author: ![system](https://forum.yunohost.org/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f59fe8e3ee6b100b4f574d30d6e30479c68b89f0.png) [@system](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2023, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/issue-with-wordpress-install-on-yunohost-saying-an-instance-is-installed-when-its-not/24499/3 "2023-05-26T15:37:36Z")

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