Sites visible, but adding posts broken

  • TheOneAndOnly

    (@theoneandonly)


    18 years, 9 months ago

    I went on vacation from my WP sites, but on the road I discovered I could no longer log in to add posts. Something broke. Here’s the message:

    “Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/username/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/functions-formatting.php:418) in /home/username/public_html/wordpress/wp-login.php on line 42”

    I’m probably not running the most recent version these days. If a rule of thumb would be to simply upgrade, feel free to say so.

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  • Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    18 years, 9 months ago

    That’s an odd error to just appear – did you edit either file mentioned ?

    If not, delete them both (just the two mentioned) and upload new ones from your zipped download.

    Thread Starter TheOneAndOnly

    (@theoneandonly)

    18 years, 9 months ago

    I tried this and it replicated the situation immediately. Weird, ey? I should say I have three WP blogs, and they all went this way at once. My pea brain therefore believes something ‘bigger’ happened, up a directory. I’m going to speak with my hosting company. If anyone else has any ideas, please feel free.

    Thanks for your efforts Podz.

    TechGnome

    (@techgnome)

    18 years, 9 months ago

    90% of the time this happens is because of a white space char that got into a file either before the opening <? or after the final ?>…. might want to double check for that…. especialy in the wp-config.php file.

    Tg
    -i’m still not here and this is still a figment of your imagination-you still haven’t seen anything.

    Thread Starter TheOneAndOnly

    (@theoneandonly)

    18 years, 9 months ago

    But TG:

    What are the odds that three blogs on one server suddenly develop this ‘space’ issue of yours* while I (the only one that can alter them) is on vacation? To have three go at once indicates either:

    1. Something intentional and malicious (unlikely)
    2. Something universal changed with my server folks (although I’m not sure how likely that is either)

    * (I did find that one of the three files indeed had your space issue. Correcting it didn’t change anything. Strangely: all sorts of notation within the file indicating a lost password…)

    vkaryl

    (@vkaryl)

    18 years, 9 months ago

    Check with your site host. Ask if they might have “upgraded” something recently….

    TechGnome

    (@techgnome)

    18 years, 9 months ago

    or possibly a recently upgraded/installed plugin?

    Tg

    Thread Starter TheOneAndOnly

    (@theoneandonly)

    18 years, 9 months ago

    Vkaryl:

    Just heard back from iUselessWeb. Whoops, sorry, I mean iPowerWeb. Their response: since WordPress is 3rd Party, they could careless. Normally I’d understand, but this is rather unique. Again, I was away on vacation when suddenly all 3 blogs on 1 server stopped working properly. Since I hadn’t changed anything, and iPW was in the midst of a change over, the finger kinda points their way. There are even two different versions of WP between my 3 blogs, which again would suggest something universal has changed.

    TG: Haven’t recently upgraded or installed anything.

    So what’s the next step guys? Do I try installing a new WP on my server space and moving things over to it?

    Michael Bishop

    (@miklb)

    18 years, 9 months ago

    I would definitely backup all databases involved, and any custom theme files.
    Try a clean install and and see it works, and one by one add items.

    vkaryl

    (@vkaryl)

    18 years, 9 months ago

    And leave ipw as soon as is practicable – their response indicates to me that they know exactly what the problem is but aren’t going to admit they are the ones who screwed the pooch….

    Thread Starter TheOneAndOnly

    (@theoneandonly)

    18 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks for you’re help y’all. I’m having something in the real world being fixed today (my plumbing), but after that I’ll try some clean installing. See what’s what.

    Thread Starter TheOneAndOnly

    (@theoneandonly)

    18 years, 9 months ago

    *********************************
    Okay, Codex is backup and today I attempted a clean install to fix my login errors. I still couldn’t find instructions on how to do a clean install on Codex but only upgrade advice, and so I figured I’d just wing it.

    Wing It Defined:

    1. I backed up my entire broken blog folder to my desktop.
    2. I then erased it from my server.
    3. I uploaded the current version of WP and then gave it the same name as the previous folder.
    4. I put my altered theme back.

    Results:

    A. The login issue is gone, but~
    B. ~ something new broke. (I’ll get back to this…)

    What I then did:

    In an attempt to fix the new issue, I moved my old wp-admin folder from my computer to the server and overwrote the ‘new’ wp-admin folder. This caused the login issue to return. So I went piece meal through the files to find the culprit. It was:

    admin-functions.php

    I chucked it. (Sorry guys– if I had been thinking, I would have saved it for you, but I’m still so new to this code world.) I replaced it with the new and improved and the login issue went away.

    However, the new issue remains, and at present, I don’t know if it’s really the ‘old’ issue revealing itself in a new way. If you could do me the favor and look at the page in question:

    http://www.macliberals.com/heapblog/

    You should see this error message:

    [i]WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘time_modified’ in ‘order clause’] SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE post_status = ‘static’ ORDER BY time_modified ASC[/i]

    That isn’t supposed to be there. Neither is the green. Nor the tops of the letters cut off as they appear.

    1. So what’dya think?
    2. Was my ‘clean install’ decent or doomed to create such issues? If so, where are the clean install instructions.

    Thanks folks. And know that someone else is having a similar error message assaulting them as well:

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/39037

    P.S.

    This blog isn’t launched yet. I had a post in it that I removed from viewing. You shouldn’t be able to see it, but my Mac’s Firefox browser REFUSES to clear it from cache. This makes me wonder if I have a cookie issue, and if– perhaps– this cookie issue is what makes the sites have a login error message. I’m going to test this by attempting to login to my blogs from an alternative browser.

    THANKS FOR ALL HELP DUDES AND DUDETTES

    Thread Starter TheOneAndOnly

    (@theoneandonly)

    18 years, 9 months ago

    I fixed the Mac Firefox browser issue with a clean install. It was very cool because I also fixed an arrow issue.

    So what I need help on is:

    What’s with that new message?

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