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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: All pages blank!Ah, thanks again, Peter.
Copy your old blog to blog-orig and copy blog2 to your old blog directory.
With new files except for the same wp-config file? That would have been easier. 🙂
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: All pages blank!@petervanderdoes
The rights need to be:
Owner: Read, Write
Group: Read
Public: readNow you can delete the file
Found a way to do that. Still wouldn’t let me delete the file.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: All pages blank!Never mind. Got it. It’s running the install right now. Matter of a different username for some reason.
Oops.
Oh, well.
Already Installed
You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.This is insane. How do you people do this every day?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: All pages blank!ARRRRRGH. Now it tells me, after I installed the new files in a /blog2/ directory and went to it with a browser, that it wanted to setup the wp-config.php file. When I put in the same values that were in the original wp-config.php file, I get this message:
Can’t select database
We were able to connect to the database server (which means your username and password is okay) but not able to select the myname_wordpress database.Are you sure it exists?
Does the user myname have permission to use the myname_wordpress database?
On some systems the name of your database is prefixed with your username, so it would be like username_wordpress. Could that be the problem?
If you don’t know how to setup a database you should contact your host. If all else fails you may find help at the WordPress Support Forums.The database IS there, so I don’t know what the problem is. I have permission to use it. The username (my name + _wordpress) is, actually, correct, so I don’t know.
Could I upload the old wp-config.php file into the new /blog2/ folder and make that work?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: All pages blank!Actually, I apparently don’t have shell access on Powweb, but I can get in on FTP. I don’t know where to find the rights, though.
Right now the upgrade files are all loading through my FTP client, so I’m going to have to wait until that plays itself out.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: All pages blank!I’m trying to create a /blog2/ directory for now and put the new files in there.
I probably have shell access, but I have long since forgotten how to do that. Telnet? Sorry to be a nudge.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Parse error…help, blog downI’ve gotten through the first few steps and am at the point where I have to delete certain files before re-installation.
But it won’t let me delete them with FTP. Says I don’t have permission. Have my permissions been messed with?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: All pages blank!What will I lose if I reinstall everything?
My database is somewhere else on my hosting company’s server, right? I’m trying to figure out how to do that.
I remember chmod 755 but I haven’t done that in a long while and have no idea how to go about it.
Thanks, though. I was due for an upgrade anyway and was just loathe to do it.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Parse error…help, blog downMichaelH, thank you. But my eyes glazed over at Steps 1 and 2!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: All pages blank!I’m having the same problem. Just this morning.
Internal pages still exist on the server and I can get to the dashboard, but when I try to write a post, I can put the subject in, but I can’t click in the text box to add text.
Friend of mine says “black hat SEO f***er” after seeing the wp-blog-header.php file.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Parse error…help, blog downOh, I got the same thing. There’s been a hack. I have that same bunch of garbage text at the top of my wp-blog-header.php file.
I can’t find my .htaccess file at all.
I have backed everything that I have up (won’t that be garbage-ified, too, though?). How do I do a fresh install?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Where have my bullets gone?I know WordPress loves to close certain tags, but I’ve always thought (and was taught) that some are superfluous. Closing a paragraph tag is superfluous. Closing a LI tag is superfluous. I’ve never understood why WordPress code insists on being so cluttered with extraneous text.
What’s strange is, the bullets show up in Safari on an iPod Touch, and in Firefox on a PC running Vista, but not on Internet Explorer.
If it’s that some browsers will display it and some won’t, is there a way to ensure that most garden-variety browsers will? I can’t believe a browser like IE wouldn’t recognize a simple LI tag.
Thanks.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Did the registration blacklist plugin kill my blog?Well, that worked. Thank you.
So, apparently I’m using 2.5. I had enough trouble getting what I’m using up and running – is there a more recent version?
My original thing was I just wanted to ban those with @komatoz.net emails from registering. I get about one a day or so, but I’d rather automate the process of deleting them. Is there a solution for the version I’m using?
Thanks again.