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I removed references to iBlog…which is the theme I have on my live site. It has a couple of plugins built in, so any reference to them I found, I disabled also.
I don’t know what I should have put in to replace two of the items, but one was “stylesheet” & the other “template”(options 49 & 50). Both had “iblog” as the option_value. I don’t know what the 2010 theme has there, so I left it blank, hoping it would revert to the default. I’m going to go back in via FTP and re-do the folder name changes again…maybe THAT will do something. It’s picking up my favicon, oddly enough…but still shows nothing but blank white page. ~ sigh ~
I FIXED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT SHOWS UP…I’M SO EXCITED.
I went back and changed the folders, then I looked in the “theme” to see how it was described. One of these two actions (or both) did the trick. 🙂 YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now…to figure out the new theme. ARG! but I did get it going, so perhaps this will help someone else. I’m reasonably sure it was a theme/stylesheet issue…rather than the plug in, but we’ll see.I’ll be doing a LOT of backing up. lol
Wellllll….this is turning into quite the adventure saga. I’ve been mucking about in the database. 🙂 I tried changing the plug-in folder names first via FTP. That didn’t have any effect, so I screwed up my cahones and opened the data base.
I did the option value change as described. While I was in there though, I saw a couple of other things that I thought might be affecting it. Options for site URL, and “home” both pointed to my live site, which of course is from where I imported this information, so at least I know its in there. I changed it to match the folder address it currently resides in, with the appropriate URL change…but to no avail. I suppose I can go back and spend some more time in there…but I really don’t know what I’m looking for. Maybe I’ll just see it? lol.
Hi Tuesday…thank you for your kindness in posting. Unfortunately, my issue can not be resolved as you describe, as the version of the database which I have is not even compatible with V 2.9.2, much less V 3.x of WordPress. There is also a version “issue” with my site, as my WordPress thinks it IS 2.9.2, but GoDaddy says it’s not…that it’s 2.9.1. Whatever, I can’t do an upgrade…it has to be an install with an import…which is where I’m currently stuck. Interesting though, in that they told you to UNinstall the manual upgrade and use theirs…as I was told that the “automatic” upgrade wasn’t functioning, and it was suggested to me to manually install the upgrade on my other WP site. I haven’t tried that one yet. At least it has a compatible data base.
Anyway, it was very nice of you to offer your assistance, and I wish you luck getting yours straightened out too!
To the most patient and kind James….I will attempt to find and alter the files as described…perhaps if I can JUST get into the admin, I can fix it. I wish I knew PHP. Funny…I have been changing my site around to get away from the OSCommerce shopping cart;…because it required too much hacking in PHP. lol. So…here I am. All that we resist…… Thank you for your continued support. I will see if I can get into this thing tonight.
Ok…last night’s installation was finally uninstalled. I installed a new fresh copy a little while ago. I did the restore EXACTLY as instructed in the links above (from James). I got a message that it was successful. And I get a nice blank white page when I try to go to the site.
http://www.stealthpaws.net/wordpressThe information is IN there! I finally found a way to look at the information in the database. My stuff is finally there. So the question is now…how can I get to it? This HAS to be a function of a PHP breakdown somewhere. I’ll be browsing to see if anyone else is having this problem.
Thanks so much for helping me…
It’s shared. I have several sub-domains under my main site, and the test site is under a sub-domain of that site. I know that they host their databases on different servers than the regular hosting files but they said that it SHOULD be a simple export/import.
The last import I did (exported 4.1 database to SQL file, took out the Create/Use strings according to log errors, removed the “drop” function and then imported it to the new clean install database) says that it was successful according to the log…but I can’t SEE the data. There is a blank page when attempting to access index.php Now I’m thinking it has something to do with the theme on the old version?..or maybe that because my paths in the old version (the live site) are altered? My index.php is in the root, with the rest of it in a wordpress folder…but I didn’t think that was stored in the data-base? I thought that was simply a function of PHP.
I’m also admittedly utterly at a loss as to what htaccess does, and how IT functions. Maybe I don’t have the proper permissions set up for wp? I have an htaccess in my root…for the old site, as well as covering some other stuff. Could that be blocking me? AGGGH. Everything ELSE works..and before I did the import I was able to access the new clean 3.0 installation..so I don’t see why that would be a problem.
<— pretty much tearing out hair.
I’m perfectly willing to delete everything and start over…as often as it takes because I really don’t want to lose my site. I’ve just gotten it to a point where I’m getting a LITTLE traffic, and it’s very important to me to keep that up. Thank you again…I should add…the installation of WordPress is an add on to their hosting stuff. They offer any number of additional free services which they have set up to quick-install. 3.0 has been giving them trouble anyway…so I’m really pushing the envelope with this mess.
They do not provide that service. They will help somewhat, however since the database is “inside” wordpress…they won’t really support it. They basically told me… export the old one, and import the new one…but that’s about it. I really don’t know where else to turn. They have tools on their site that actually sort of by-pass phpadmin..but there’s also a access for that service. Other than that, they do nothing.