llorch

What you need is a copy of your original MySQL database. Did you ever download a backup of it. if you did you should be able to restore it locally by running phpmyadmin, or whatever database administration tool bitnami came with.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by llorch.

I presume your trying to run wordpress on a windows machine. did you install WAMP to set up Apache, MySQL and PHP. Or are you using some other package. Or are you using a different OS, like Linux. In which case you would install LAMP. If you haven’t installed your web services and have not confirmed that they are functional that is the first step.
First you should run your mysql utility to confirm mysql is running and being accessed correctly. also you may need to define the port number for the mysql database host as well. it should be port 3308.
If that is not the port mysql is running on you will not get Apache mysql or php to function correctly. and will need to name the correct port number along with the host name IE: localhost:3308 if that is correct.
if you have not installed wordpress yet because of the database issue. you need to make sure that the database is up and running first. By using phpmyadmin or what ever mysql administration tools came with your web services setup. I’m assuming Wamp. Also, when mysql is originally created the admin user Name and password are as follows:
UserName: root
Password:
usually there is no password you must change that password once you are logged in to secure the database.
You will need to create a new Database from Within Mysql that is not connected to the other databases originally created by the mysql install. you will need to create a new user account so your data will be protected, a site user name(so the new wordpress site can communicate with it), a password, and set permissions so that the site will have complete control you can restrict a bit, later.
Then you should be able to simply open localhost in a web browser. If your using the latest version of wamp local host should display your Server Configuration. It is recommended that you create a virtual host (ie: http://www.example.com) that is at the root of one of your drives and place the wordpress files in that location.
ie; D:\www\location of wordpress files and folders.It is also recommended that you move the files directly into the root folder. wordpress normally comes in a folder titled WordPress. It is ok to create you root folder as D:\wordpress\ it will work from there as long as it is the root folder you chose when creating the virtual host location. then your just need to unzip word press at the root of D drive.
Once you have started your WAMP server and restarted the dns services you should be able to access the famous wordpress 3 minute install by going to http://www.example.com and answering the questions that follow. if this does not happen Let us know. and include details just saying you word press can’t connect to the database doesn’t offer enough information to discover root cause of the problem.

It appears that you are running into alot of problems due to lost files and folders. if you are using an ftp program to upload your file with I would down load the latest version of word press and open it up in a new folder on your pc and then upload the entire package to your site to restore files to their original locations but you do not want the wp-config file to be over written so make sure not to have it in the upload. in your FTP program you will go into the folder you placed the unpackaged install of wordpress and highlight everything in the route of that folder and upload to the root of your site or the location you have declare as the root of your sight.this should rebuild eveything required to get your site up and going again if you want to include you theme you should first add it to your local wordpress install wp-content/themes folder. then upload and wordpress should be restored to original specification and you should be able to get past the errors.

Thanks for the tip Ipstenu I’ll check it out when our servers upgrade to Php 5.3 or greater. right now it would cause to many errors on our sights. Just trying to help out another user get back into his WP. and there are a great number of twitter plugins. thanks though.

your getting that error because the plugin is calling again for the header which is an illegal action. you need to access your account on your host via FTP or through what ever file manager they offer on their systems so you can manage your hosted account. once in the file manager you will want to go to the wp-content folder and rename the folder “plugins” to something else this will disable all plugins and allow wp to function properly and let you in. barring other issues. but unless you are running this on your own server you will have to use an FTP software to connect to your account folders or use the file management capabilities offered by AT&T. we don’t use AT&T so I don’t know their configuration but they should have a way to access your files that will give you more access then you presently have.

disable your plugins by renaming the plugins folder if the site opens without error start reintroducing your plugins it looks like backupwordpress plugin my be corrupted or conflicting with something else. hope this helps, let us know.