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Someone on the NearlyFreeSpeech.net forums directed me to a tutorial on sarahpin.com, I think it was, which involved changing loads of group labels and file permissions in one go. Now everything works fine, the permissions are secure, things upload properly and I’m on the rigt server. I’m away from home and posting from my iPod, so I will find the link and post it here when I get back. Thanks for your help, everyone!

Hmmmm, I am with NearlyFreeSpeech.net and I switched my account to a Flex instead of a Fast Apache server. The permissions are all still on 775 so I think that’s good? But someone on the NFSN forums said that WordPress blogs don’t usually need the Flex type of server. I’m using ComicPress, if that’s at all helpful.

Sorry if I’m explaining badly, it’s almost 3am where I am!

phillip peet, I got an email notifying me of your reply, and it said the message was “test” – but I can’t see anything on this page. Not sure if that’s significant?

I’m on 777 right now, and using the theme Twenty-Ten, and I get the same result. So I guess it’s not theme-specific.

The weird message in the “Right Now” box on my Dashboard is gone, though!

Confused.

I worked out how to do that, hurrah! But now it won’t even let me on to the header uploading page, and there’s a weird piece of text in the “Right Now” box on my Dashboard:

Warning: array_keys() [function.array-keys]: The first argument should be an array in /f5/polyinpictures/public/WordpressPiP/wp-includes/theme.php on line 513

I’ve no idea if it’s related, it might be something I faffed with earlier. :/

Success! I’d missed a step in creating the database. Bless the Error page for assuming I’d done everything right so far!

For the future reference of people trying to set up a WordPress thing on NearlyFreeSpeech.net, I used this handy tutorial: http://dantoday.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-install-wordpress-blog-on.html

Thank you both for your efforts. 🙂

I’m with nearlyfreespeech.net, who for some reason say that I should never use localhost, only %. Voila the info from the FAQs: https://members.nearlyfreespeech.net/lottelodge/support/faq?q=DSN#DSN

The DSN, or hostname, for connecting to MySQL is the name you gave when you created it, followed by the extension .db. The full connection information can be found in the email sent to you when you created your database. Never use localhost as part of your database connection information.

And this: https://members.nearlyfreespeech.net/lottelodge/support/faq?q=MySQLUserHost#MySQLUserHost

The MySQL “user” table that controls who can access your MySQL process contains a “Host” field that controls what hosts can connect as that user. No matter how you create MySQL users, when using our service, you should always use make sure the “Host” field winds up containing only the % character.

Since we use a clustered network with specialized nodes for hosting and specialized nodes for MySQL, you will never connect to your MySQL process from the server it’s actually running on. Since things move around, you won’t even know in advance which server will originate the connection. Using the % character allows connections from any of the servers on our network, which is the only way you will be able to connect. Using “localhost” or any other value will lead to connection problems.