WordPress not recognizing folder that files are placed in

  • sportsman885

    (@sportsman885)


    16 years, 3 months ago

    Here is the backstory…

    I have a membership site using the software wishlist-member…I was told to install a new version, but it made my site just like a white page. If I uninstalled it, everybody could access content that was behind the membership wall.

    So I thought upgrading to WP 2.9.1 from 2.8.6 would fix the problem. But it didn’t. I had save my wp-config file and wp-content folder and did a complete reinstall of 2.8.6 because 2.9.1 was doing funny stuff to my site. So I completely reinstalled 2.8.6 and then reinstalled the files/folders I had backed up.

    And now my site I see as being completely unstyled…one thing I noticed is that when my site was normal, the files were in a /WordPress/ folder and now they’re not.

    I can see in my file manager that all the wordpress files are in a WordPress folder, but it’s not being recognized. How can I fix this problem?

    Also, do you think that is related to when I try to access my dashboard, wordpress redirects me to this:

    http://www.baseball-intellect.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.baseball-intellect.com%2FWordPress%2Fwp-admin%2F

    That then takes me to my unstyled site.

    So this would be huge if anybody can help me out. Thanks.

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  • s_ha_dum

    (@apljdi)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    Something is very wrong– lots of 301 redirects and 404 errors. When you were installing and reinstalling things did you also reinstall your database? I believe that 2.9 makes database changes which means that a database altered by 2.9 may not work with 2.8.6.

    Switch off all of those plugins and revert to your default theme first. Maybe something has gone wrong with one of those components.

    Thread Starter sportsman885

    (@sportsman885)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    No, I didn’t reinstall my databases…since I’m currently on version 2.8.6, should reinstall my backed up database?

    Or could I just go back to 2.9 and leave the data bases alone?

    s_ha_dum

    (@apljdi)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    What I’m worried about is that since you upgraded to 2.9, you would have (pretty sure, not 100% though) altered the database. If you’ve gone back to 2.8.6 then you now have 2.8.6 running on a database built for 2.9.

    If you have a good database backup from before the upgrade to 2.9.1, at least your basic content is safe. I lean toward saying go back to 2.9. You are going to need to eventually anyway.

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