michael-drinkwine

OK, I have been able to install the phpMyAdmin onto the server (no one bothred to say that it needed to be installed, everyone seemed to assume it was just already there).

Now I can get the login page, however, it won’t let me in, it says

#2002 – The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server’s socket is not correctly configured)

I have not been able to find someone with a similar situation (most of the posts I have seen show a local host).

Verizon assures me everything is fine on their end and they are able to login and see the files, database etc using terminal.

If I know that the login credentials are correct, is there an easy fix that anyone knows of for this in the configuration files?

OK, I downloaded everything from the server back to my PC from the website, which should include all of the data stored in the Blog (in theory).

Since it is looking like I cannot access the phpmyadmin, I am thinking it might be worth while to try to do the install again as it is asking for now. The only holdback I have is how this came to be in the first place, I don’t want to do it ovr and over again if something in thee is messed up.

I spent several hours on the phone with Veriozn (the first hour an a half without any help as it seems that not too many of their help staff know you can build your own site without using thier software and just uploading it to thier server), however, when I did get someone in the hosting tech support area, I was told that they can assist restorin the file structrue of the website itself, but they don’t support things like Blogs that you add to their server (other than them adding PHP support for recognition of the files, like Front Page Extensions).

OK, I have not been able to get to much of anything as it comes back to the install page when trying to get to anything else.

Verizon dos have a way of looking at the files (FTP) and some features, but I did not see an applet that gave me access to phpmyadmin. I will go back and try. If I have to reload, is there a file (or setof files I should pull back off of the serever that have our posts? I don’t want to lose them.

I also contacted Verizon (our site is hosted by them) to see if there is anything going on at their end of things. They saw the same problem and said that there seems to be a problem with the index page and that it comes up as missing or blank.

We don’t mess with any of the settings on the Blog and only post to it, so I don’t understand how it could get messed up.

In looking through the “folder” on the server, I can see the pictures and such from the posts, but I am not familiar enough with the file structure to see the actual posts.

I would really like to get the Blog back up and running, but I don’t want to obliterate anything by just reinstalling.