Did you update your permalinks?
I started over. I emptied the database and reinstalled wp. The installation went fine. My own theme works fine. I can add material and everything is fine. I made .htaccess writeable and updated the permalinks.
Next. I imported the data I had exported from my other installation of wp. Perhaps the problem is with the backup plugin that I am using. I am using “On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Scott Merrill.”It seems that something is imbedded in the backup that has the direcory path to my /xx/ directory hard wired. Although this makes no sense to me.
In any case, thhis is now when chaos begins. For example, if, with the new data in the database I try to update permalinks at:
http://williamrubel.com/wp-admin/options-permalink.php
I get this error message.
The page isn’t redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
* This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
cookies.
Thank you
In the old database you have the two URI values (usually set in the Options > General) probably pointing to the old address/location.
Check it by following this tutorial:
http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/
Dear Moshu:
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You guided me in the right direction. When I opened the new installation with the data from my old installation the blog address setting from the options was brought along with the other data.
I followed your suggested link and from that was easily able to change the incorrect value in the Options field.
I will add to what you have suggested. Once I did that I was able to get back into the options page through WP. I had only been able to change one value for the directories — wp root and blog — in MySQL. I was able to change the other one manually.
Also, the password that I needed to get back into my new installation was not the password that WP assigned –but rather the password to the old installation. So, using the old passoword I got back in, and changed the password!
These were minor bumps on the road. I had spent hours and hours and hours doing stupid things trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. So, once again, thank you for identifying what I had done wrong in a way that let me solve the problem.
