You did not err.
Yahoo Tech Support know as much about ‘tech’ and ‘support’ as I do the process of plate tectonics. They are a bunch of complete idiots. Seriously.
Best advice? Move to a different host.
That doesn’t get you blog fixed though, so we’ll do that.
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Database – do you still have the database on the site? You didn’t alter that at all?
What was the goal in changing things? Upgrade?
I can tell you to do various things but the above info will help us get you the correct advice.
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bbkld5
(@bbkld5)
Good to hear and appreciate the help.
Every file from my old blog is in the folder /oldblog including the data bases. It has not been touched. Another backup is on my local PC, so if the /oldblog gets destroyed, we have the copy down on my PC.
The bottom line is I want to end up with my blog on a subdomain, which is hat I should have done in the first place.
Thanks/
Okay … don’t do anything unless you are clear and confident 🙂
Your blog is at http://www.example.com/oldblog
Yes?
And you want to move the blog to oldblog.example.com
?
If the above is the case, do this:
Login to http://www.example.com/oldblog
In Options there are 2 addresseds. Change them both to
oldblog.example.com
Save the page.
Move all the files to their new location.
Login
That should be all that is required.
If the subdomain does not yet work, neither will the blog.
Additionally, if you had any links that used the full old address they too will break (they are fixable bu it’s last on the list).
If I’ve got the wrong end of the stick, or there is anything not right, do say 🙂
Thread Starter
bbkld5
(@bbkld5)
Yoursteps are clear, but I must be missing something.
When I try to log into example.com/oldblog, I get:
“Sorry, the page you requested was not found.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.”
bbk – it would actually be example.com/oldblog/wp-admin where you log in
(not to interrupt podz’s helping you here, just thought it might clear it up so you can proceed quicker)
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bbkld5
(@bbkld5)
This is an excellent forum, seriously. You guys are incredible.
But I mucked this up beyond belief. I’m now getting all sorts of ugly errors and displays with no presentation headers or footers.
Any mistakes or misunderstandings are mine alone, and not the fault of the experts.
Would it be best if I wiped both blog folders clean and restore it from my PC?
And delete all the pertinetn subdomains at the same time.
If so, what would be the next step in restoration?
yahoo hosting is crap, to be honest. I’m doing some work for a lady on their hosting, and their control panel is approximately far and away the worst bit of software of any sort I have ever used
bbkld5 – can you get out of your deal with yahoo?
If you can, http://www.asmallorange.com and http://www.bluehost.com never get mentioned here in any complaints and they use cpanel (which is a Good Thing).
If you cannot …… I’ll have a go for you?
here’s a link to a mini how-to for a yahoo subdomain
http://blog.alanguilan.com/2006/02/21/wordpress/93.html
it may be better if you wipe clean and then install a blog and then try to import the old blog.
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bbkld5
(@bbkld5)
Based on the above:
– I have wiped out all other blog directories.
– I created a new blog directory under /blog following the link provided by headlessspider (btw, ew) above.
– The old blog is still there under /blog1.
– When I try to login into /blog1/wp-admin/, I get the infamous:
“Can’t select database
We were able to connect to the database server (which means your username and password is okay) but not able to select the blog1 database.”
– I searched the documentation for importing the old database into the new one, but must not be using the right keywords.
Your help and patience with this newbie is deeply appreciated!
I’m with the other guys… can you get out of your yahoo hosting? Yahoo’s notorious for borking up user sites… back to the days when geocities was the only free web host.
Thread Starter
bbkld5
(@bbkld5)
Unfortunately, I am stuck with Yahoo. 🙂
fair enough….
“We were able to connect to the database server (which means your username and password is okay) but not able to select the blog1 database.””
means that when you made the db, and made you as a user, you didn’t ‘connect’ the two.
You need to add the user to the db somehow.
Thread Starter
bbkld5
(@bbkld5)
After some long comtemplation with my good friend Jack Daniels…
This is getting more and more complicated, so I’m going to start over. I will mull and continue to read the documentation, and will return if I have more questions.
I appreciate all of the help!
(well, not Yahoo Tech Support, that’s for sure.)
trust me, I’ve spent about six hours over the last week wrestling with Yahoo. I’d like to think I have a fairly advanced knowledge of wordpress, and wordpress theming. Yahoo has me thouroughly stumped. It’s been randomly deleting pages, screwing up themes, and the like. It’s just not useable
