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  • Resolved rudyard

    (@rudyard)


    (insert much screaming and gnashing of teeth here)
    Caveat- I don’t know what I’m doing

    Site was installed on NW Solutions using the default install. Wrong in so many ways. The install went into httpdocs/wordpress1. The designer changed the address in the Dashboard to get rid if the ‘/wordpress1’ in the URL (and added www)… it broke, and broke hard. I copied the whole setup to a new folder, httpdocs/sanctuary

    I edited the dbase in myphp, in xx_options I changed
    “siteurl” to http://sanctuarysupporters.com
    and
    I changed
    “home” to http://sanctuarysupporters.com/sanctuary

    It was still all wackadoodle, the theme didn’t display right so I deleted .htaccess and created a new one based on info from the WP website (and still get “If your .htaccess file were writable,” argh! but that is the least of my worries but may be indicative. It sits in the ‘sanctuary folder’ there is no .htaccess in httpdocs.

    So I finally got it to work but two things- the photos aren’t coming up but more critically, in the Dashboard> Settings> General, WordPress address and Site address are all cattywampus…

    WordPress address http://sanctuarysupporters.com
    (but it’s actually in http://sanctuarysupporters.com/sanctuary)

    Site Address: http://sanctuarysupporters.com/sanctuary

    Isn’t that all bass-ackwards??? AHHHHHHHHHHRGH!!!!!!!!! >:(

    I want to get that right, which may fix the photos AND the permalinks thing THEN update WP to 4.0.

    thoughts anyone? Thoughts?? (ripples just under the surface of the water and some bubbles come up)

    -Rudyard

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