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1. PRH Consulting
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Let me start by saying I'm not particularly tech savvy. I had a blog at http://prhconsulting.com/blog hosted on my Yahoo web page. One day the blog just stopped working (it would seem to work, i'd go to post and after clicking "post" it would disappear and never post).

   I attempted to make a back-up of my blog entries by going into my yahoo website files and copying out all the blog entries. I opened them in frontpage and the entries were there so i thought it was fine. Then i deleted wordpress and re-installed the newest version (2.8.2). Opening my "back-up" i found only html links that apparently were still linking to the files i "checked" but now no longer worked.

   All previous blog entries seem to be gone, I tried to restore from a previous snapshot through yahoo but was unsuccessful - no files seem to be present (did the new version wipe out the old existing files? is there any way to restore them?) Where are the entries stored - on wordpress servers? is there any way to contact them or have them locate the files on their servers so i can relink to them or something... If anyone has any suggestions I'm open to trying anything.

2. ZGani
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Your posts and comments are stored in the databse and if you are using the same dabse then you should still have them.

   Did you somehow delete the config.php file too and then setup a new one with a new dabse?

3. PRH Consulting
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   its possible i did, im not really sure.

   What i did do was "deactivate" and then "install" using controls provided by yahoo.

   Would that have overwritten the config.php file? how do i get to the old database?

4. ZGani
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   It shouldn't have overwritten it no, but then again never used yahoo so don't know how their system works. When you say "using their controls" I take you are reffering to the cpanel and most likely fantastico right?

   You can access your database through your contrl panel by going to MySQL and sellecting MyPhpAdmin and log in with your credentials. While there check to see if all the tables are still intact.

   If you went through fantastico I can only assume it did a fresh install by wiping out everything. I don't recommend it for installation at all let alone upgrading (if it has the facility).

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