[TYPO3] Typo3 4.0 Install Problems

[Christoph Koehler]

> Thanks for the helpful post Christoph :)
>
> But it seems I just made a fatal mistake from just "trying" as others  
> suggested.  I pressed import, and selected the tables, and now I lost  
> the whole database and all its data.  I had exported a backup of the  
> database before I tried this, but now there seems to be problems when I  
> try to restore the backup.  So I completely lost my website that I spent  
> 2 years on.  I hope my host has a website backup...  but this is what  
> you get from just "trying" I suppose... :-/

:) Don't worry, it will all work out.
What's the problem when you try to import the database that you exported  
before? If you have cpanel, you might have backups of the database. My  
host creates them every day, so if I try to download a full backup, or  
site backup, don't remember, it gives me a link with the backup file.  
Changing the date on that link gave me the files for previous dates. Try  
that.

If you did a full export of your database, you should be able to import  
it. Let me know what the error is.

Christoph