Gotta love playing Polish Mine-Detector, but problem resolved.
- Downloaded a fresh copy of 4.2.4
- Logged in to my hosting service and copied the following to the downloaded copy:
- wp-content/plugins
- wp-content/themes
- wp-content/uploads
- made a backup of the existing WordPress installation
- deleted the existing WordPress installation from the server
- reset the MySQL user password and waited for the database to update
- ran install.php and pointed it to the existing database
- logged in to the site (the dashboard loaded and worked just fine)
- updated all plugins and themes
- checked that everything else looked good (it did)
Keep fingers crossed that I didn’t mess it up. On the bright side, it’s just ones and zeroes and I’ve got backups of everything.
I ran into this issue during my last installation. There is a “clone $newvalue” issue on this line. The solution suggested in another thread was to add parentheses to make it “clone ($newvalue)”. Clone also appears down on line 306, so put “$value” in parentheses at that location, too. Those two changes unstuck my install and I was up and running. Hopefully it will work for you, too. Good luck.
