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1. hannahlevbarg
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   I successfully upgraded my few client sites (mostly hosted on the same server as the problem site) to 3.2 in the past week, but http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org was giving me errors at first when I would try to make the upgrade, and wouldn't install successfully. I updated one plugin and tried again today, backing up the site first (via a plugin), and tried again to upgrade to 3.2.

   The upgrade was successful, then returned `Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp() in /home/cptf/public_html/wp-blog-header.php on line 14
   when I clicked on "Dashboard".

   I have no idea what the problem is, and I am not a programmer. I would reinstall the whole site, but am not sure how to get at the backup that was made and plug that back in. I can't get to anything in the WP site because it all calls this header file error.

   I have to reset the site to display a temporary index.html page but the fatal error posted above is all that appears when index.php is on.

   Anything at all would be appreciated, this is really frightening me.

2. hannahlevbarg
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   And, I totally failed to make notes of the errors WP called when it failed to install 3.2 initially, which was stupid, and probably held the keys to whatever buggered this up.

3. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Your upgrade did not complete successfully.
   Try:
   - switching to the default theme by renaming your current theme's folder in wp-content/themes using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides.

   - resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin.

   - re-uploading all files & folders - except the wp-content folder - from a fresh download of WordPress.

   - re-running the upgrade manually using wp-admin/upgrade.php.

4. hannahlevbarg
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Okay, thanks - right now, I've just started trying to upload the files from my backup zip, via DreamWeaver, though I'm a little anxious as to why it's not asking me if I want to overwrite stuff or not. I'm going to stop that and try one of your last two suggestions. I'm loathe to switch themes as I think I'll have to go back and do a lot of work in Atahualpa if I turn it off and on again, or at least that's what I remember from past versions. But I'm willing to do what I have to.

   Thank you for taking a moment. I'm not an idiot but, as I said, I'm not a developer, and this sort of thing is extremely unnerving for me, nice to even have moral support.

5. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 10 months ago #

   FWIW, I haven't seen any issues with Atahualpa in WP 3.2

6. hannahlevbarg
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Thanks - me neither! I really feel bolshi about not wanting to mess with it in this site! I use it for, uh, everything these days... That is, ALL my other recent sites are running on ata and 3.2 and no issues.

   In trying your "upload everything sans wp-content" suggestion, I noticed that there was a config-sample file still sitting in the top level - not sure how that happened, though I remember getting interrupted or something the day I set up this site, and I'm not sure that that or some other related screwiness in original file loading hasn't been screwing things up. We'll see, thanks again.

7. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 10 months ago #

   I noticed that there was a config-sample file still sitting in the top level

   A wp-config-sample.php file is shipped as part of the core install for those of us who like to hand edit our own config file. Don't worry about it.

8. hannahlevbarg
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   So, from a clean 3.2 download, I overwrote the top-level wp files (renaming/replacing the config file), and the admin and includes folders + their contents. I am now getting:
   A user login request and then a 500 Internal Server Error, even for my index.html page. I'm not sure what the hell I've done now. I have logged into my file manager in the control panel, but don't see a lack of "read" priviledges. I also went and reset db user permissions to "all" (one had somehow switched off), still screwed up.

   I am considering uninstalling everything, or even wiping this account off my server, doing a clean reinstall and replacing the wp-content folder with the backup I have from earlier. Is there a serious danger in doing this? Is all my content in my backup? I am sure I'll have plenty of cleanup to do but am wondering whether this will work, period...

9. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Is there a serious danger in doing this?

   Not if you've got a decent backup. Does this site have its own php.ini file? Anything unusual in the .htaccess file?

10. hannahlevbarg
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    duh, so, I have an 881K sql file in the backup that is obviously the db backup, and I realize what I'll have to do is restore THAT to have my content, of course, and I'm uncertain of how to do that restore. I am going to do some searching on here for tutorials on that.

11. hannahlevbarg
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    huh. as I hadn't modified .htaccess, I hadn't looked. Here's what it says, though (this is the top-level .htaccess file, haven't looked at the ones in any of my server's _vti_ files, and it doesn't have a php.ini file, btw), which doesn't mean anything to me:

    # -FrontPage-
    
    Options None
    
    <Limit GET POST>
    order deny,allow
    deny from all
    allow from all
    require group authors administrators
    </Limit>
    <Limit PUT DELETE>
    order deny,allow
    deny from all
    </Limit>
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName cellphonetaskforce.org
    AuthUserFile /home/cptf/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
    AuthGroupFile /home/cptf/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

12. hannahlevbarg
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    Duh again - thought to compare this to the .htaccess from a working client site, and have amended it to reflect the settings from that one.

    That fixed the internal server error, and all is well, thank you so much! The replacement thing WORKED! I'll have that big glass of red now, yes, thank you. Cheers to you, Esmi.

13. esmi
    Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
    Posted 10 months ago #

    Glad I could help :-)

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