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Thanks chaaban gave full permission and it finished installing without a hitch.

Thanks againg.

Forgot, this is a copy of the current sidebar code:

<div id=”sidebar”>

• <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/searchform.php’); ?>

<!– Author information is disabled per default. Uncomment and fill in your details if you want to use it.

• <h2>Author</h2>
  A little something about you, the author. Nothing lengthy, just an overview.

–>
<h2>About Me</h2>
My Background

• <?php /* If this is a 404 page */ if (is_404()) { ?>
  <?php /* If this is a category archive */ } elseif (is_category()) { ?>
  You are currently browsing the archives for the <?php single_cat_title(”); ?> category.

  <?php /* If this is a yearly archive */ } elseif (is_day()) { ?>
  You are currently browsing the “><?php echo bloginfo(‘name’); ?> weblog archives
  for the day <?php the_time(‘l, F jS, Y’); ?>.

  <?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (is_month()) { ?>
  You are currently browsing the “><?php echo bloginfo(‘name’); ?> weblog archives
  for <?php the_time(‘F, Y’); ?>.

  <?php /* If this is a yearly archive */ } elseif (is_year()) { ?>
  You are currently browsing the “><?php echo bloginfo(‘name’); ?> weblog archives
  for the year <?php the_time(‘Y’); ?>.

  <?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (is_search()) { ?>
  You have searched the “><?php echo bloginfo(‘name’); ?> weblog archives
  for ‘<?php echo wp_specialchars($s); ?>’. If you are unable to find anything in these search results, you can try one of these links.

  <?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (isset($_GET[‘paged’]) && !empty($_GET[‘paged’])) { ?>
  You are currently browsing the “><?php echo bloginfo(‘name’); ?> weblog archives.

  <?php } ?>

<?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=<h2>Pages</h2>’ ); ?>

• <h2>Archives</h2>

<?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly’); ?>

• <h2>Categories</h2>

<?php wp_list_cats(‘sort_column=name&optioncount=1&hierarchical=0’); ?>

<?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>

• <h2>Links</h2>

Peak Oil Portal
New York Mercantile Exchange
International Petroleum Exchange
Tokyo Commodity Exchange
Yahoo Oil & Energy News
Google Oil & Energy News
MS NBC Oil & Gas News
Disclaimer
• <h2>RSS/XML/ATOM</h2>
  
  <img src=”http://www.peakoilportal.com/crudeoil/wp-content/energy/crudeoil.gif&#8221; class=”left” alt=”RSS”>

  <img src=”http://www.peakoilportal.com/crudeoil/wp-content/energy/energy.gif “class=”left” alt=”XML”>

  
  <img src=”http://www.peakoilportal.com/crudeoil/wp-content/energy/energy1.gif&#8221; class=”left” alt=”ATOM”>

  
  <img src=”http://www.peakoilportal.com/crudeoil/wp-content/energy/energy2.gif&#8221; class=”left”

  
  <img src=”http://www.peakoilportal.com/crudeoil/wp-content/energy/energy3.gif&#8221; class=”left”

  
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  <img src=”http://www.peakoilportal.com/crudeoil/wp-content/energy/energy14.gif”class=”left&#8221;

  <?php get_links_list(); ?>

  <?php wp_meta(); ?>

<?php } ?>

</div>

Thanks for that. Sometimes our stupidity can make things much harder that there really are.

Ok never mind I actually managed to fix that one on my own. However, it was by accident!!! But its a workin!!

However, I thought this was causing two problems. It has fixed the first one but has not fixed the second one.

I’m trying to edit my sidebar. I go to Manage > Files on the admin panel. It will allow me to view the sidebar file but it dosen’t seem to want to let me edit it. I can make changes to the file but there is no button to save those changes. Additionally, I leave come back and the file its back to its good old self without the changes I need. Also it also says at the bottom of the file, not in the box with the code thought directly below:

If this file was writable you could edit it.

So how can I go about editing files online in this section without haveing to use a text editor and FTPing those bad boys to my hosting server?

Ok I read the Changing File Permissions. When I log into my user panel it has the following options for this directory

Change permission of wp-admin

Owner S R W X (R W X are Checked)
Group S R W X (R W X are checked)
Others T R W X (R X are checked)

I checked the W and saved the changes but it still says

It doesn’t look like you can use the file upload feature at this time because the directory you have specified (/home/peakoil/peakoilportal-www/crudeoil/wp-content) doesn’t appear to be writable by WordPress. Check the permissions on the directory and for typos.

However, do I need to reboot my computer and log-in again or is this not the problem?

OK I have added the proper changes but still can’t get it to work. Although, this was certanily a problem at least im one step closer to getting this thing running, I think, so thanks for that part.

This is what the config file looks like now:

// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘peakoilportal_com’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘*****’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘*****’); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

The only other think I can think of that may be a problem is how I have WordPress set up on my computer. I had to fool around with the directories to try a get the proper url for my blog that I wanted. At least that is what I was attempting to do.
Wordpress files on my computer
C:/crudeoil
wordpress
wp-admin
wp-content
wp-images
wp-includes

When there uploaded on to my hosting server under the www directory it goes:

www
crudeoil
wordpress
wp-admin
wp-content
wp-images
wp-includes

With the attempt of my blog being located at: http://www.peakoilportal/crudeoil

But then again this could all mean nothing or maybe it is vital to getting this thing working any imput at this point would be so appreciated.

Thanks,

When I log-in to my control panel under the MySQL section it has the database name as peakoilportal_com

I copied what you had above with the the name as peakoilportal_com but I still can’t get it to work.