Found out what it was. I can’t explain it fully, but in the end it was quasi the host’s fault (the .htaccess file was messing with it) – if I renamed that file, I could get in and do my thing, then change it back and everything was fine.
Sorry – I’m wrong on that one. That was the solution for a different site – also running on Verio, but the Unix server. The Windows IIS server is still being a turd.
I found another thread that said if I installed an old version of WP and then upgraded, it would solve the issue. So I deleted everything, and uploaded the files for 2.0.11. now I have a totally new issue – it’s finding the files just fine, but now I have the error of:
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method stdClass::hide_errors() in ***\blog\wp-settings.php on line 121
that line says this:
$wpdb->hide_errors();
Man, working on IIS sucks. Anyway, anyone have any ideas for me on how to get this running on Windows?
Okay, I think I have it narrowed down. Line 121 comes after a few references to “WPINC”. When i was trying to install 2.5.1, it didn’t know what “WPINC” was. Changing relative paths for “ABSPATH” would solve some problems, but it would choke when it came to “WPINC” – so I’m guessing that’s the issue here.
Anyone know where “WPINC” is defined? Maybe I need to put in an absolute path to that?
WPINC is defined on line 176 of the wp-settings.php file.
Blargh. So I removed everything and tried re-uploading the files, and ALL NEW errors showed up. So I re-uploaded/overwrote the files that were showing up in the new errors, and now an all-new wp-settings error is here, one I’ve never seen before, but of course, uploading the file again does nothing.
This server is seriously whacked. It’s gotta be that.
Even funnier – if I upload the same file to the same area, using a PC, then I get a different error. Upload using my Mac, and the other error comes back. How weird is that?
OMG – I *finally* got it.
So, here’s the deal. Thank to the wp-hackers lists, I removed ALL whitespace from the end of wp-settings.php. Apparently, my Mac puts in some different EOL characters than Windows does, so that was screwing with some things.
I opened up the php.ini file, and looked for “cgi.fix_pathinfo”. I found it, but it was commented out. I removed the leading “;” and set the “0” to “1”. (While I was in there, I also set the memory_limit to 32 – might as well, right? LOL)
Then – here’s the biggie – when I started the installation, I typically go to sitename/wp-admin and let it do it’s thing. but this time, when I’d enter in my blog name and email address, it would redirect to a 404 “Page Not Found”. BUT – when I actually entered in the path to the installation file (in my case, it looked like so: sitename.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php) THEN IT WORKED!
I had to change the settings to point to the correct location of the files – for some reason it only had “sitename.com” instead of “sitename.com/blog”, so all the styles were lost – but now it works. Ahhh…took me two weeks to figure this out – but man, I’m glad it finally worked. Just thought I’ pass this info along for anyone else who might need it.
