BillSmart

MichaelH,

I went ahead an added .css extensions to the list of extension to use ASCII transfer mode.

All is now well.

Thanks…Bill!

MichaelH,

I’ll try this ONE MORE TIME, but this will be about the 10th time I’ve done it.

I’ve always downloaded the .zip file and then use WinZip v9 to unzip, Notepad++ v5.6.8 to modify and Ipswitch WS-FTP Professional 12.2 to upload.

I’ll try 7-Zip, but I’m getting really discouraged at having to install all kinds of different tools just to get started with WP.

I’ll let you know what happens.

…Bill!

Samboll,

That worked!

I decided to try to do everything as vanilla as possible:
1. deleted everything both locally and on my web server
2. re-extracted from the v2.9.2 zip file to my PC
3. FTP’d everything to my remote web server
5. DID NOT create a wp-config.php, but let the WP software do it for me
6. left the DB_HOST as the default: ‘localhost’
7. left the $table_prefix as the default: ‘wp_’
8. did not create unique KEYs or SALTs.

Questions:

1. How important are the KEYs and SALTs?
2. Do I have to delete and then reinstall WP to add them? Or is there a way to do that now, after the install?
3. If I install another instance of WP in this same database (using a different prefix for the tables), do I have to use the same KEYs and SALTs on all instances of WP?

Thanks…Bill!

Samboll,

I tried ‘localhost’ and ‘localhost:3306’. I get the same error. Also, when I set up MySQL I used ‘www.billsmart.com’ and it worked okay to set up the connection. My web hosting service is meccahosting.com. The instructions they sent me when they set up the MySQL database are:

Your MySQL database account login information is:

Username: (username) (same as my email and works with MySQL Workbench)
Password: (your account password)
Database: billsmart_com
Hostname: http://www.billsmart.com

I’m not sure this is causing the PHP Fatal Error. The server error on this specifically references a function in wp-setting.php:

Server Error: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_wp_error() in /wordpress/wp-settings.php on line 289

The function referenced (I think) in wp-settings.php is:

$prefix = $wpdb->set_prefix($table_prefix);
if ( is_wp_error($prefix) )wp_die(/*WP_I18N_BAD_PREFIX*/’ERROR: $table_prefix in wp-config.php can only contain numbers, letters, and underscores.’/*/WP_I18N_BAD_PREFIX*/);

It looks to me like the set-prefix function thinks $prefix is a ‘bad’ prefix. In wp-config.php I have set this up to be:

$table_prefix = ‘wp1_’;

…but have tried it with just ‘wp_’ and still get the same error.

Any other suggestions?
…Bill!