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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: No comments on pages – .htacess file?ive got kind of the same problem. At the bottom of my theme’s page.php, i inserted the code:
<?php comments_template(); ?>
so the comment form is there, and i can enter in comments, and they even register in the database and show on the dashboard under the recent comments. They just don’t display on the page…
anyone have any ideas? ill keep playin around with it, and if i find anything ill let ya know.Forum: Alpha/Beta/RC
In reply to: what does file upload actually do??you click on the thumbnail picture, where it says “using as thumbnail” you click and it becomes “using full size”, then when you drag and drop it, it uses the url for the full size pic. i didnt get it at first either, but it seems pretty cool.
what i cant find anymore is the options for the upload directory..?Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: installation doesnt recognise mySQLhuh, apparently i dont get the whole code in the backticks thing… lets try posting that link again
http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?11,6400,6701#msg-6701Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: installation doesnt recognise mySQLokay I got it running. Please let me clarify a couple points moshu… I totally appreciate your help, and I’ve dug through a lot of old posts looking BEFORE I posted my own to try and minimize my stupidity in this (which I’m completely new to). The gibberish in my original post was simply an error on my part: trying to access the file through my file explorer instead of through my web server, which was why PHP didn’t work. (In other words, just ignore the gibberish part, cus I was bein dumb)
The solution to the original problem was the new versions of php and mysql (whichever one it was, I don’t know because I changed them both at the same time). Simply downgrading them fixed the error: “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.”As far as the “Error establishing a database connection”, I found the solution here:
a href="http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?11,6400,6701#msg-6701"http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?11,6400,6701#msg-6701/awhich basically said to use this function:
SET PASSWORD FOR ‘user’@’host’ = OLD_PASSWORD(‘password’);so for me it was: SET PASSWORD FOR wordpress@localhost = OLD_PASSWORD(‘password’);
I have no idea what this did, but it works now. Thanks again for both of your help, it’s very much appreciated.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: installation doesnt recognise mySQLsorry moshu, but i wasnt asking for help setting up the server, which worked fine. anyways, I went back and reinstalled php and mysql with the earlier versions (minus a couple hitches here and there, it’s working now). But now I get a different error, although a little more promising (which leads me to believe the biggest problem was indeed the newer versions):
Error establishing a database connectionThis either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host’s database server is down.
I know mySQL is up and running. I made a database with the name wordpress. I’ve tried it with root and the corresponding password and tried creating a wordpress user with a corresponding password, but either way, it fails to recognise the service.
Anyways, thanks for the help. I’ll keep at it and if I manage to get it working, I’ll post the solution on here.