Newbie just hosed WP

  • stutes

    (@stutes)


    17 years, 12 months ago

    Newbie to wordpress. Had it up and running and it was telling me a new update was available, and I followed the link and downloaded the zip file.

    Granted, I should have read how to update.

    Instead I backed up my ENTIRE website (at least I think I did), and then uploaded the WP download over what was there.

    Well, as I’m sure you know, it didn’t like that. I was no longer to see anything but an error when I went to my domain.

    So I uploaded my backup and overwrote the new install (so I thought).

    That didn’t help any. Different errors now.

    Now I’ve deleted all WP files (so I figure), and have uploaded the latest WP download.

    Still not working, thought the errors are different this time. When I go to my website http://www.drewmark.com it is just blank.

    When I go to where my WP login should be, I get these error messages

    Warning: main(/export/home/dr/drewmark/public_html/wp-config.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /export/home/dr/drewmark/public_html/wp-login.php on line 2

    Warning: main(/export/home/dr/drewmark/public_html/wp-config.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /export/home/dr/drewmark/public_html/wp-login.php on line 2

    Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/export/home/dr/drewmark/public_html/wp-config.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/php4cgi/lib/php’) in /export/home/dr/drewmark/public_html/wp-login.php on line 2

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  • Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    17 years, 12 months ago

    Those warnings usually indicate that all files are not there.
    Also, are you using the same database prefix in the wp-config.php.
    You might want to change that to get a clean install. Or delete current database and recreate.
    Of course if you have a lot of posts or mods, you might want to use the previous db.
    Start by deleting all of your files and starting over (except for modded theme files and wp-config.php if you want to have your posts back.

    Hope that confused you enough. :>)

    iridiax

    (@iridiax)

    17 years, 12 months ago

    You need your original wp-config.php file.

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