delete old joomla template and install a new one

[cs071372]

Hi all,
i want to change the template of my website. Thus, i installed a new template. My problem is that all the menus, items, modules etc. appear in the new template. I want totally to erase everything from the previous website and start working on the new templates with the items that the new own gives me.

Any idea how i can totally delete everything?

Thanks in advance
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[Per Yngve Berg]

Wipe everything and start with a fresh installation of Joomla.

The Template is just the look of the site. Content, Menus and Modules are not part of it.
You can get a Quick Start Package that contains full Joomla, Template and Sample Data.

http://docs.joomla.org/Portal:Beginners

[cs071372]

Ok, thanks for the reply! And how can i wipe out everything? you mean to totally unistall joomla?

[Per Yngve Berg]

Delete configuration.php. Upload from the distribution package. Then run the install. Select the option to drop the old database tables.

[cs071372]

Hi,
i managed to delete my old website, but i think i did some more that i shouldnt have done. When i installed the new joomla for my website, an error popped up that the database already exists and joomla cannot be installed. So, i thought i should delete tha database. After i deleted the database, the new joomla app was successfully installed but wherever i want to go into the plesk panel i get this error:
ERROR: Zend_Db_Adapter_Exception: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory (Abstract.php:144)
And this is what appears when i open my website:
Error displaying the error page: Application Instantiation Error: Could not connect to MySQL

Apparently, i shouldnt have deleted the database.
any ideas how i can fix that ?

thanks again