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if you are not working locally, how can you change the permissions for IIS_User?

The same information is probably valid, just use the ftp to site rather than copy to local directory. Basically a manual upload of the files. If you need to change permissions for files to run be careful, many filesystemes don’t allow 777 and don’t work – usually forcing you to use 775 or similar

http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Changing_File_Permissions

http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/wordpress-file-permissions?replies=6

might help

The connections in wp-config form the connection string, so basically that is all you need to worry about at installation.

If I have connection problems to Mysql I generally run phpmyadmin from the control panel and connect to the db. Make sure the database has the correct name (silly but it has caught me out before) and then check the DB name, and the login details. If you can connect with the right information through the control panel then you have proved the DB connection and WP should connect as well.

I clicked on ‘college basketball’ and ‘MLB’ in your tag cloud and went to a post without a problem. No problem with the categories either.

Looking at the page source code it would look like everything between the the <iframe> tags have been removed. This might have happened in the transfer, it is hard to guess. Try copying the specific <iframe> code from the source of the old page and pasting into the page of your new site. Don’t forget to swith to html view.

As fonglh says, you only need to create one database, it is the connection to the database you set up within the wordpress setup.

I think that the http://localhost:36955 you are using is a non webmatrix, direct via web host connection as the number is a port number, so apache or IIS is looking to that port to run something. If webmetrix was setup then use the webmatrix interface. If you mix the two then some parts of the process may be missed out. I have no idea what webmatrix actually does – beside use a load of disk space – but if you have installed wordpress via the webmatrix route then it has installed IIS not apache and it’s own versions of mysql and php (as you pointed out) but also probably sets them up to use in a non-standartd way. For example Mysql usually sits on port 3306, webmatrix could have linked it to port 3308 or any other one it fancied.

If you are using webmatrix then as far as I know you may be able to go into the wordpress folder by looking in the inetpub/wwwroot directory, but yet again, only if webmatrix set thet directory up as the web ‘root’.

I have webmatrix, I loaded as a way to help on another query on this forum and I hate it. It was supposed to do everything I needed but all it has done is loaded a whole load of rubbish and screwed up my working Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP setup. But my wordpress install works!

Open yor wp-config.php file in the wordpress root folder and set the WP_DEBUG to ‘true’, just change the false to true and save. (Remeber to change this back again when you have the site working!)

Go back and run the install again, log into the localhost/wordpress site, don’t go into install.php. The WP_DEBUG option will show any error messages from PHP on the screen. See if any come up when you try the installation.

I always double check through the windows administration > services interface that both apache and mysql are actually running.

The files you copied from your ipage root are the framework of WP. Your actual data, the text, pages, comments etc. that appear on your web site are in the database.

In order to see your site you will need to backup your ipage database and then restore it into your local site. Even if you get a local site running you will never see your old data unless you do a backup and restore. I would make a backup as a priority, that way you know you have your data. The files that you downloaded can be replaced from the wordpress site, but your data can’t.

If you are installing WP locally then try reading this http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Installing_WordPress#Installing_WordPress_on_your_own_Computer and load the required software.

I would sugest that somethiong is wrong (obviuosly) as it should be comment under post.

However, if you have a page with show latest comments then the latest comments will show in that area, no matter what post they relate too. It is difficult as you didn’t post a URL so I can’t see what is running where.

So check – are you displaying ‘Latest comments’ rather than comments.

If you are using a theme other than the default then change back to the default (usually twentyten) and check what is happening with the posts on the default setting.