How do I properly uninstall and reinstall SharePoint 2013? (Avoiding 503 Error) - sharepoint-2013

I have looked in quite a few places but all the information I have seen does not address my scenario. Please note that I can probably just make a new server for my SharePoint 2013 installation but I think this might be one of those gems for people who do not have that luxury and facing the same problem.
SCENARIO:
I uninstalled a functional SharePoint 2013 setup by
uninstalling SharePoint 2013 on the SharePoint Server and
manually deleting the databases on the remote SQL Server.
When I tried to reinstall SharePoint 2013 though I kept getting a 503 Error on the Central Administration page which appears to be due to the Central Administration AppPool stopping.
SUGGESTIONS I HAVE TRIED:
Check the password of the account running the AppPool service.
I did that and the account have Domain Administrator privileges and is capable of logging into the SQL Server without issue using the same password.
Try uninstalling IIS.
I uninstalled and reinstalled IIS and it made still gave the 503 error.
I read on a blog post (let me know if I can send the link) that "[he] need[ed] to clean up the content db, virtual directory and app pool properly next time."
I believe I did this but I may be missing something and that bit of stuck information is probably what is causing the issue.
Any thoughts?

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Can anyone please help me with this problem?
We got the error message All the IIS sites are already configured by some other version of ColdFusion. when switched to another Coldfusion version. We tried many of the solutions which didn't work out for us.
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EDIT:
After the installation it asks to launch the instance, which I do. When I navigate to YOURSITE/sitecore the page doesn't load and just says "The Page cannot be displayed" standard IE error message when the site cannot be resolved.
Make sure that you have your site in hosts file. However I wonder why it could be absent there. As installer and SIM should modify it.
E.g.: for site "testinstance" you should have next record:
127.0.0.1 testinstance

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I have a redmine instance running on windows (Bitnami Redmine). I've exported the database (a dump using mysqldump).
I have a new Ubuntu Server installed on another computer with another redmine instance (just installed).
I opened a phpmyadmin session on the new Ubuntu Server, made a backup of the new redmine database and then restored the backup from my original server.
I then logged into redmine using my original server user/pwd with no problems.
I can move through projects, and issues perfectly, However, every time I press the "New Issue" option, or Settings in a project the following error appears:
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An error occurred on the page you were trying to access.
If you continue to experience problems please contact your Redmine administrator for assistance.
If you are the Redmine administrator, check your log files for details about the error.
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SharePoint 2013 Search Service Application

I have built a SharePoint 2013 environment and everything was successfully setup. Then I had to disconnect the SharePoint 2013 server from the Farm, then I reconnected it to the farm again using the SharePoint 2013 products configuration wizard, then I re-run the AutoSPInstaller script I used to install SharePoint 2013 originally and this time the search service application was not successfully provisioned (already provisioned during initial install via AutoSPInstaller).
In search service application search administration page, I get the following message under "Search Application Topology":
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Has anyone come across this issue before? how was it resolved?
I have installed the required/additional hotfixes: KB2472264, KB2554876, KB2708075, KB2765317...
Would deleting the Search Service Application and the database (data) associated with it via central admin, then running the AutoSPInstaller script again fix this issue? has anybody tries this method?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated... I am tearing my hair out at this minute...
Thanks in advance
After much researching on the internet, the one thing that resolved this issue was to delete the search service application via central admin altogether and then re-provisioning it again. In my occasion this was provisioned via "AutoSPInstaller" which did the trick and resolved the message:
"Unable to retrieve topology component health states. This may be because the admin component is not up and running"
1.Remove corrupt search service applications:
http://pointsforsharing.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=5
2.Run powershell script:
$hostA = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity "YourServerName"
Start-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $hostA
$UP = Get-SPServiceApplicationProxy | where {$_.TypeName -like "Usage*"}
$UP.Provision()
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance –Identity $hostA
$hostA
I've gotten this working by installing these updates BEFORE INSTALLING SHAREPOINT. If I install these updates after installing SharePoint, I don't have much luck with this..

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I had created a Team Project Collection and added a team project on TFS 2010 which was a created on a VMWare space. Of late my system administrator copied the image of the server and recreated it on to a new VMWare server due to space shortage.
Not sure if the given issue is occuring due to that but post the movement I am getting this error when trying to create a Team Project on TFS 2010
Error TF24023:
Team Foundation Server Configuration Failure. The New
Team Project Wizard work item component could not connect to the Team
Foundation Server \
Explanation
Contact the administrator for the Team Foundation Server
\ to confirm that the
server is available on the network. Also, you might find additional
helpful information in the project creation log. The log shows each
action taken by the wizard at the time of the failure and may include
additional details about the error.
User Action
The Project Creation Wizard was not able to connect to
the Team Foundation Server \. The reason for the failed connection cannot be
determined at this time.
The server is accessible and am able to work with my earlier created Team Project, but not able to create a new one as it tries to look at the servername\projectcollectionname instance as the server name. Can someone help to resolve this.
Tried searching the error number and the log related solutions and other forums but could not get any specifics related to my issue.
What is in the log files? Do you have SharePoint or SSRS configured? And are those configurations still valid?