rustindy

But “probably” is not “definitely”, so if someone does have the time and skill to help Amiantos, they should.

Other users have noted this behaviour in the past, so it’s not an isolated incident, and does appear to be a bug. It’s never happened to me, personally (unless I actually do block the referrer field with my firewall), but I believe that it happens to him.

Since it works fine for most people, it’s probably a server configuration issue, but exactly what that might be is very hard to tell, which is why he’s offering a copy of his installation for download – so someone can install the exact files on their own server and try and duplicate the problem.

I think that’s by design. If you want to give people a hint about it, open the file with the comment fields in it (usually comment.php and comment-popup.php – at least in 1.5) and add value="http://" to the URI input box.

PHP4 does not like MySQL 4.1 because MySQL 4.1 uses a newer authentication than PHP4 has.

To workaround, either downgrade to MySQL 4.0 (if you can), upgrade to PHP5 (if you’re using the 1.5 betas – WP 1.2 doesn’t like to install with PHP5), or perform the following (using PHPMyAdmin or directly to the database itself):

In your MySQL ini file (usually this is called “my.ini” I think), in the [MySQLD] section, add old-passwords on a line by itself.

Now restart MySQL and connect to the database (command line, PHPMyAdmin, MySQL Query Browser – whatever tool floats yer boat), and:

use database blog;
SET PASSWORD FOR -> "root" = OLD_PASSWORD("changeme");

Assuming that works (it did for me – had this problem getting Mambo to work, but I run WP1.5 on PHP5 with MySQL 4.1), your blog should start working 🙂

And please don’t use “root” to login. Create a new account. If you create a new user after restarting MySQL with the “old-passwords” line in “my.ini”, you won’t have to do the second step above (I don’t think – if it doesn’t work, then do the query).

Good luck 🙂

The 9th is holding strong for me so far – tested everything that someone is likely to use and no problems yet 🙂

Locate the wp_list_cats command in your “index.php” file (or whichever file shows the thing – in v1.5 it’ll be in the “sidebar.php” file instead) and add the command children=0 to it.

For example, it might look like this:
<?php wp_list_cats('children=0'); ?>

That’ll show only the main categories.

Oo, good idea (IMHO).