bearhawk903

Hey – thanks.

Turns out the email *IS* working. Just wasn’t sending to one address that I use, but that could be due to the fact that it autoforwards. Might be something else, too, but I deleted my test user account, re-registered using a different email and NO problems now. WOO HOO

It helped that I had someone else testing, too. The emails worked for them so I knew it was working in general… hence my delete/re-register thing.

Testing alone is a big hassel. It’s nice to have a community here to draw on, and – at least in my case – also nice to have a network of people to test the site & it’s features.

Community – the key to so many things! 🙂

So – to wrap up: all of my ‘wordpress’ problems were rights issues at my end. Word to the wise for all other newbs to both Linux (SuSE in my case) and WordPress. a) it WORKS. b) get the file/dir permissions right (even if that step isn’t in the 5-minute docs) in my case:
chmod 755 each directory
chmod -R 644 * (gets all teh files)

If there is a mistake there let me know – that’s what I did and it worked for me.

thanks again to all

jamie

Ok – looks like I’m on the path of rights discovery.

‘fixed’ the rights and now the installer loads. Very cool, except now I’m trying to sort out why the main blog page is blank.

Sigh.

Maybe more rights?

jamie

chmod’d the blog dir with 644 and now the download problem has gone away.

BUT – I now have shifted into another problem – when I try to run the install.php script I get:
Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access /blog/wp-admin/install.php on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.0 (Linux/SUSE) Server at http://www.peicpsg.ca Port 80

I think I’ve gone somewhat over the 5 minutes.

lol

I’m my own host… maybe that’s the problem? 😉

jamie

Thanks for the reply.

I tried it but didn’t find anything.

jamie