InnoDB: Attempted to open a previously opened tablespace

Question

I have been working on a problem for a few days now. Our local mediawiki page that sits on our box account, destroyed itself and we\'ve been working to get it online. Using

Answer 1

Tgr's answer looks appropriate. The message about permissions etc. is a generic one; the actual error message is

2015-11-20 9:50:22 4600 [ERROR] InnoDB: Attempted to open a previously opened tablespace. Previous tablespace phpmyadmin/pma__tracking uses space ID: 21 at filepath: .\phpmyadmin\pma__tracking.ibd. Cannot open tablespace wiki/archive which uses space ID: 21 at filepath: .\wiki\archive.ibd

Your wiki database and phpmyadmin database somehow ended up with the same tablespace ID. Each would work fine if the other wasn't present; as it is now, you'll have to renumber one of them somehow.