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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Changing PHP versionI will do that.
Thank you very much!Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Wrong video displayed in main page.Yup. That worked. All is well.
Thank you.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Wrong video displayed in main page.I think so.
It was displaying incorrectly on my desktop, my iPad, and my Android phone before all of my attempts to fix it this afternoon. So something was definitely wrong. I did all of my troubleshooting on the desktop and it just kept displaying wrong, but I never re-checked the other devices. I just looked at my phone and iPad and they were both still displaying it wrong. Then I reloaded them and they now both display correctly. But the desktop does not. So maybe the persistence of the problem was actually a cache problem.I hate clearing my cache. Maybe I’ll just put up with it until I make another posting and hope the new version will be cached correctly.
Thank you for your help!- This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by 1fatbear.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [SlimStat Analytics] Strange entries in my access logThank you Jason. I actually have no idea what that means, but it sounds like it’s not some hacker or something.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Site disappearedWell it’s back. I think something was wrong with the database. I contacted support about a different issue (couldn’t get phpMyAdmin to come up) and when they fixed that the site suddenly started to work again. Tell me it ain’t magic….
Thanks for all the help. Since they didn’t tell me what was wrong (or if I caused it) I may be back.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Site disappearedYes. Both were working. Then they both weren’t.
This morning I completely removed the PHPBB files and deleted the database. I started over with a new database with a new username. I uploaded their installation files and tried to install. It wouldn’t even start. I contacted the aplus.net support and they just told me they were escalating it. Maybe something is wrong with the database that is affecting both sites. Anyway, let’s let this ride for a bit until they sort out the database and maybe everything else will work, too.
Thanks.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Site disappearedYes, index.php is from WordPress.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Site disappearedI went to the control panel and tried to use phpMyAdmin. I’ve used this occasionally since 2005 but not since they installed the latest cpanel. It doesn’t work, either. So I will have to sort that out.
But here’s something that might have screwed it up. I was looking at the .htaccess file and noticed that there is also a .htaccess.OFF file which was apparently the original or default one or something. I ran them through UltraCompare and a section has been added to the bottom that starts with the line:
# for PHP7-CGIThe .htaccess file is mod-dated at around the same time that my site stopped working. And at around that time I may have changed the php version on my site. I went into the PHP Manager in the Control Panel. It didn’t say what the default version was and it looked like I needed to select one in order to “manage” it. The choices were PHP V7.1 or V7.2. I selected V7.2.
I just tried changing it to the only other option: V7.1 and that doesn’t fix the site, but I still suspect that I did something really wrong here. Is this recoverable? I have a few days invested in the WordPress part of the site and I’m not on anyone’s payroll, so I could just scrap the whole thing, delete my database, and start over from scratch. But if I can fix it without too much work I would prefer to do that.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Site disappearedThanks. I’ll check into those things when I get back from the actual Kayaking For The Birds…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Site disappearedI should add that before installing WPForms I also installed PHPBB in a subdirectory of my site. I used the same database username, but created a separate database for it. It “should” be a completely separate thing and I’ve made no effort to integrate it with WP. (I understand that is a bad idea.) PHPBB also worked for a while, but is no longer working, either.
The last thing I actually did, though, was the WPForms install and partial creation.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to plan a WordPress siteThanks. I will try it out.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to plan a WordPress siteAlso, how hard is it to remove a plugin once you’ve installed it? Can it break anything when you do?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to plan a WordPress siteThank you, Joy. I think that gets me pointed in the right direction.
Wordpress is beginning to look very DIY to me. For example, I tried to find a good forum. I found lots of screenshots of admin screens, but I want to know what they look like to the outside world. I can see it is going to take a lot more time than I thought before I even start the installation.
So is it possible/practical to embed a PHPBB forum into a WordPress site?