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1. kinsfire
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I've just installed WP 2.0.5 to my website (http://www.kinsfire.com ) and it will not show any of the themes as ... well, you read the topic title. *smile*

   COuld this be connected to the fact that this server is on a Dynamic DNS? One day my IP might be 71.164.155.109, and tomorrow or next week it could be 71.164.171.213. (By the way, it also requires a Port 80 redirect - the site is on port 8080.)

   If the Dynamic DNS ISN'T the problem, then what might be? If it IS, is there a way around it? Do I need to edit the files and have them point to the http://www.kinsfire.com URL or do I need to deal with something else?

   Thanks in advance for any help you guys can give me.

2. reb_76
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   did you install wordpress into the root of your site, or in a seperate folder?

3. moshu
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   What are the two URI values in admin > Options > General?

4. kinsfire
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   reb_76: the root of my site - that's the only thing I intend to use the site for. (I have two other things available in the root dir of the site, but you need to know that they're there to even be able to get to them.)

   moshu: http://www.kinsfire.com (for both of them)

   I'm willing to edit files, if necessary, but I just need to know which ones.

5. kinsfire
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   As an addition, moshu, the values had ORIGINALLY been IP addresses with the port number, but I changed them because the IP changes regularly enough that I don't want to lose the site regularly. (IOW - the two blanks read something like http://71.164.155.109:8080 or whatever the IP was at the time.)

6. kinsfire
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I have moved the site to a sub-directory, following the rules listed at the Codex site (codex.wordpro.org)

   For one brief shining moment, I had a graphical interface - to the admin side, but as soon as I logged in, it was gone for good, it seems.

7. moshu
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   1. You have some ugly frames around your site
   2. The install is still looking for the stylesheet here (in a frame?) - http://71.164.155.109:8080/wordpress/wp-content/themes/tiga-06/style.php

8. kinsfire
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I have definitely discovered the problem - it is the fact that it's trying to do this across port 8080. (The setup requires that - port 80 is being blocked.) Problem is, it's a variable IP address - the address listed in moshu's last post is not the one for today, but the site only works properly if I put the port information in there. (IOW - http://www.kinsfire.com in the URI fields gives me nothing but text, but placing the day's IP addy in there works properly. (http://71.164.155.109:8080 was yesterday's))

   Is there some workaround to allow that? Can I edit something somewhere to tell it that it's always supposed to be dealing with the 8080 port? I really don't want to have to go in and edit the IP every single day.

9. vkaryl
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Well, in wp-includes/class-IXR.php are 3 lines referring to port 80 - lines 463, 468, and 796. In wp-includes/snoopy.php is one line, 46, which ref's that port number. In wp-includes/comment-functions.php is line 697 ditto. In wp-includes/functions.php, lines 904 and 1076. 11 lines in functions-formatting.php, and I didn't look in wp-admin or wp-content plugins or themes.... You'd have to search every file in any given install, and change every instance to 8080, which would mean redoing it all every time the version changes in wp.

   Or perhaps a brighter person than I could figure out how to do this in .htaccess?

10. R2
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I'm having the same problem -- I just upgraded from 1.2 to 2.0 (so I could use Akismet). I'm pretty sure the site has more or less recovered from the upgrade, and it seems to be reading from the database properly. But I'd like to change the site theme, but I'm stuck with the "default" no matter what I do.

    The site is at http://www.intentionallyblank.net (the Blog URI).
    Wordpress is installed in http://intentionallyblank.net/wp (the WordPress URI).

    My comments also appear to be broken, which renders the Akismet upgrade moot, but one problem at a time, eh?

11. Otto
    Tech Ninja
    Posted 5 years ago #

    (IOW - http://www.kinsfire.com in the URI fields gives me nothing but text, but placing the day's IP addy in there works properly. (http://71.164.155.109:8080 was yesterday's))

    Of course. You didn't specify a port in the first one, but you did in the second.

    See, http://www.kinsfire.com is pointing to a no-ip redirector in a frame. This is a problem. With this sort of setup, you'll have to change that address every day in WordPress.

    You need an actual DNS name that points to your IP regardless of what the IP happens to be that day. This is commonly called Dynamic DNS. Several places offer it for free.

    Once you have that name, then you can use that name and tell the blog that it's there, and it will work properly.

    What you currently have is NOT Dynamic DNS. The IP of kinsfire.com is some other box. That box serves a webpage with a frame that happens to point to your current IP. That's not what you want at all. You need a name that resolves to YOUR IP.

12. moshu
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    R2,
    If you were to upgrade from 1.2 to 2.x - you have to convert your "style" into a theme.
    (No, your blog does NOT display the default theme!)
    see this:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrade_1.2_to_1.5

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