How old is this domain? It can take several days new domains to stabilize.
the domain ryandrews.co.uk is about 4 years old. MySQL was activated about 3 months ago
Ok. Then something is timing out. I can’t guess at what because I can’t the page to load at all.
As far as things you can do, I’d suggest that first you make absolutely sure that wp-config is correct and that all of WP’s files are in place and in the right place, then if that doesn’t help disable all of your plugins. Since you can’t get into wp-admin, backup your plugin files to disk and then delete them from the server. You can also back up your theme and delete it from the server. WP should default to the Default theme so you have to make sure that that theme is on the server.
However, this really seems like a server problem, especially since I got a 500 error one (but not all) of the times I tried to load the page. I’d contact Easyspace if I were you.
Thanks for the response. I have contacted Easyspace to see what could be causing the issue. I have since re-installed WordPress, deleted plug-ins and the only other theme that had been installed.
In the meantime I have uploaded a test.php page at the same location with just the text
<?php phpinfo(); >?
in it (as seen in a similar Topic). When you view the page in a browser what should be shown?
Just found out the following:
“It does not allow use of the mod_rewrite module but this is not essential for wordpress to work.”
Text should read in post 2 above:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Without mod_rewrite you can’t use pretty permalinks, but WP should work. Have you set any permalink settings– Settings->Permalinks?
Without mod_rewrite you can’t use pretty permalinks, but WP should work. Have you set any permalink settings– Settings->Permalinks?
No, because I haven’t been able to log in to make any changes since re-installing. Is there a way to change these manmually within phpmyadmin or in the wp files themselves?
Managed to log in briefly and found that Permalinks is set to default:
e.g. http://www.ryandrews.co.uk/blog/?p=123
The default permalink setting should work in all cases, as far as I know.
phpinfo() should spit out a long formatted list of PHP configuration values.
Has Easyspace responded to you? This really really really seems like a server problem. The server seems to be timing out on some (most, maybe) requests but not all. That suggest poor configuration or massive overloading, in my not always so humble opinion.
Thanks for all your help apljdi! Easyspace were “unable to provide individual diagnostics blah blah…”
I changed the default Permalink setting to Numeric, ensured all plug-ins were deleted and this seems to have fixed the majority of the problems with not being able to access anything – I’ve actually managed to post stuff!
However there is still this timing out issue which you are noticing as well. I had noticed other posts regarding WordPress being slow after installing 2.7.1 so it may be a combination of this and a server problem as well.
That’s too bad. This doesn’t really seem like a matter of ‘individual diagnostics’ to me. I’d maybe start looking for another host.
Downgraded to 2.6.5 and everything seems to be working fine. I guess there’s some settings within 2.7.1 that don’t agree with my server/dbase somewhere.
