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# emlawrence

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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [FTP Username and Password not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ftp-username-and-password-not-working/)
 *  Thread Starter [emlawrence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emlawrence/)
 * (@emlawrence)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ftp-username-and-password-not-working/#post-4805225)
 * Found it!!
 * [http://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/section/uploading/ftp#ftp](http://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/section/uploading/ftp#ftp)
 * Thanks for the help!
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [FTP Username and Password not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ftp-username-and-password-not-working/)
 *  Thread Starter [emlawrence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emlawrence/)
 * (@emlawrence)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ftp-username-and-password-not-working/#post-4805224)
 * Hi Dandy Plow. Don’t give up on me, but my Site and Profile both have FTP enabled.
   I waited the one to five minutes they suggested but I’m still not getting FTP
   to work! Any other suggestions?
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [FTP Username and Password not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ftp-username-and-password-not-working/)
 *  Thread Starter [emlawrence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emlawrence/)
 * (@emlawrence)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ftp-username-and-password-not-working/#post-4805222)
 * Thank you! I checked and I already set up a username and password. Those aren’t
   the problem. The problem is the hostname. How do I know what to put there? I 
   tried my url (writeornot.com) and I get the error, so that isn’t it. I tried 
   using the Connect to: info that I use to make Fugu (ftp client) connect and that
   didn’t work. Is there someplace I can go to find my hostname?
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Failed to connect to FTP Server lawrencesql.db:21](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failed-to-connect-to-ftp-server-lawrencesqldb21/)
 *  Thread Starter [emlawrence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emlawrence/)
 * (@emlawrence)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failed-to-connect-to-ftp-server-lawrencesqldb21/#post-4749686)
 * I tried typing in my shell to find my home path to wordpress:
    `<?php $path =
   get_home_path() ?>` and I got a syntax error. I just need to find my home path
   and I can’t seem to get it to work. Can anybody help?
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Failed to connect to FTP Server lawrencesql.db:21](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failed-to-connect-to-ftp-server-lawrencesqldb21/)
 *  Thread Starter [emlawrence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emlawrence/)
 * (@emlawrence)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failed-to-connect-to-ftp-server-lawrencesqldb21/#post-4749607)
 * Clarification:
    I’m trying to get WordPress to upload media/themes/plugins and
   it won’t. I get the error ‘Failed to connect to FTP Server lawrencesql.db:21’
   every time I enter my hostname, username and password. They are all definitely
   correct. So I did a search and found the above solutions, but I need to navigate
   to wordpress on my server in order to get them to work. I don’t know how to do
   that.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [WordPress won't let me login](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-let-me-login-5/)
 *  Thread Starter [emlawrence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emlawrence/)
 * (@emlawrence)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-let-me-login-5/#post-4746760)
 * So I bit the bullet and went to my phpAdmin and deleted everything under my database
   with wp in front of it. I left the database itself alone, but everything else
   went. Then I reinstalled wordpress. I lost my two weeks of work (it was backed
   up, i’ll survive) but I can log into wordpress again.
    I’m having other problems
   now, but the login problem is fixed.
 * hope nobody else has to do that…and if you do, i hope you backed up what you 
   wrote.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [WordPress won't let me login](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-let-me-login-5/)
 *  Thread Starter [emlawrence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emlawrence/)
 * (@emlawrence)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-let-me-login-5/#post-4746738)
 * Ok, I tried to uninstall and reinstall wordpress again and now I get a blank 
   white page when I try to open my page [http://www.writeornot.com](http://www.writeornot.com).
   No errors, just a blank white page. What did I do?
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [WordPress won't let me login](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-let-me-login-5/)
 *  Thread Starter [emlawrence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emlawrence/)
 * (@emlawrence)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-let-me-login-5/#post-4746727)
 * I had a bug on the page, something was wrong with my plug ins and nothing would
   fix it. I couldn’t upload any images. So I deleted wp completely using Fugu and
   then reinstalled it and it fixed the bug. Everything ran smoothly for two days,
   then this loop happened.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [WordPress won't let me login](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-let-me-login-5/)
 *  Thread Starter [emlawrence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emlawrence/)
 * (@emlawrence)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-let-me-login-5/#post-4746713)
 * Should I try the phpAdmin thing?
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [WordPress won't let me login](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-let-me-login-5/)
 *  Thread Starter [emlawrence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emlawrence/)
 * (@emlawrence)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-let-me-login-5/#post-4746712)
 * Yes, but not very helpful. The suggestions are to try reinstalling wp (i did),
   to try getting rid of plug ins (i did) and your theme (i did). still looking 
   but need something different…
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [WordPress won't let me login](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-let-me-login-5/)
 *  Thread Starter [emlawrence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emlawrence/)
 * (@emlawrence)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-let-me-login-5/#post-4746710)
 * Thanks Evan,
    I can’t access my dashboard to refresh permalinks…I can find the.
   php file for this but I’m not about to mess around with it unless someone can
   give me some specific info.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [WordPress won't let me login](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-let-me-login-5/)
 *  Thread Starter [emlawrence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emlawrence/)
 * (@emlawrence)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-let-me-login-5/#post-4746669)
 * Hi Evan,
    I tried that six times in a row just now and it didn’t work. Thanks
   for the suggestions, keep ’em coming???

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