When you say ‘remote’, it’s just a different computer than the one running WP? How are you accessing it, with IP or hostname?
Is there a firewall active on the WP host? Is DNS setup properly?
“I’m about to wipe the databases and the install and start from scratch, but before I do — any suggestions?”
You’re jumping to the wrong conclusion. As Class has implied, this sounds like it’s almost certainly a networking issue and not a WP one.
Do you have any issues viewing the default web server test page?
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stewlg
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Yes, it’s just a different computer. Both are behind a firewall, on 10.x.x.x. I’ve tried using http://ip and http://hostname. Firewall on the WP host? Hmm, possible, but I didn’t think so, I’ll have to check to be sure.
I think DNS is set up correctly, but it certainly does seem like that kind of problem.
Most of the *NIX distros I have used the last few years install a firewall by default.
If you can ping the hostname from another computer, DNS is likely ok.
I have a similar problem, downloaded the latest.tar.gz from the download section. Followed the instructions in the readme.html and such, database createion and extraction all went well.
The problem is that the page is displayed without graphics and when i login on the admin page i get “the document contains no data” when i click on links such as “Presentation” .
Perpahs it is a ownership problem or something?
Using Debian stable, phpmyadmin works nicely, mysql proven to works.
Oh btw what is the minimun req. “rights” needed for the wordpress mysql user?
.bobba
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stewlg
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I fixed my issues this way:
1) I added a hard-coded DNS entry for the box in /etc/hosts. This caused the graphics loading stuff to go away.
My admin password didn’t work after that, however, so..
2) I deleted my WordPress database in MySql (“drop database wordpress;” I think) and made another (“create database wordpress;”)
Now things work again. Thanks for all the advice!
