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  • Forum: Installing WordPress
    In reply to: The version 2.6 will not work! Dont install!
    todd-smith

    (@todd-smith)

    17 years, 10 months ago

    I have been trying to upgrade for over a week. I’ve been scouring the forum here and have tried many things suggested but still have had no luck. I did successfully upgrade one blog, but my second is not working.

    I get error 500 when I try to install at /blog/wp-admin/install.php. I have not seen any part of my blog during this time (including the admin page). There is no way to login.

    I am on a Linux server hosted by Lunarpages.com. I tried the usual upgrade procedure as detailed on the WordPress site. I tried removing the .htaccess file. I tried creating a new .htaccess file with permissions 777. I tried a clean install (removing all files from the root folder) and uploading the new files from WordPress 2.6. I even went as far as to change all permissions to 777, just in case there was a problem there.

    Then I tried removing the database and database user from the server and creating a new version of the database. In all these cases, I get the same error 500 (Internal Server Error). Still no way to login, and no blog pages visible to the public.

    I have not tried reinstalling the old version again. Other than that, I don’t have any idea what more I can try.

    Any help would be much appreciated.

    Thanks,
    Todd

    Forum: Installing WordPress
    In reply to: WP 2.6 upgrade results in “database connection error”
    todd-smith

    (@todd-smith)

    17 years, 10 months ago

    I tried making a new wp-config.php file using the version from 2.6. This didn’t help either.

    Forum: Installing WordPress
    In reply to: WP 2.6 upgrade results in “database connection error”
    todd-smith

    (@todd-smith)

    17 years, 10 months ago

    I have the same problem. what happened??

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: RSS Feeds
    Thread Starter todd-smith

    (@todd-smith)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    I don’t know how I missed that… Thank you!

    How do i send you an ecard, if I don’t have your email? 🙂

    Todd

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: my category links are not working…
    Thread Starter todd-smith

    (@todd-smith)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    Hi Haochi,

    Thanks for the link. This helped a lot. I posted a response there, but I’ll summarize it here:

    After reading the post, I realized that this could be a problem with the .htaccess file. The .htaccess file had the wrong permissions (it was not writable) so WordPress could not update it. Wordtracker did however place the code it would have written to .htaccess in a text area at the bottom of my Permalink Settings page. I simply updated my .htaccess page manually by copying and pasting this code and changed the permissions to 777 so that WordPress will not have similar problems in the future.

    The problem began for me when I changed the Permalink settings to “Day and Name.” This change would have been written to the .htaccess file but the file was not writable. So when WordPress went looking for my permalinks (Categories), I got a “page not found” error in my browser because it was looking for the links with a different URL. Now it’s working fine.

    Thanks again,
    Todd

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: “Category” Permalinks are Dead Links
    todd-smith

    (@todd-smith)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    I had the same problem with version 2.5 (the links to the Categories did not work on the actual site). After reading your experience, I realizedthat this could be problem with the .htaccess file. In my case, the .htaccess file had the wrong permissions (it was not writable) so WordPress could not update it. It did however place the code it would have written to .htaccess in a text area at the bottom of my Permalink Settings page. I simply updated my .htaccess page manually by copying and pasting this code and changed the permissions to 777 so that WordPress will not have similar problems in the future.

    The problem began for me when I changed the Permalink settings to “Day and Name.” This change would have been written to the .htaccess file but the file was not writable. So when WordPress went looking for my permalinks (Categories), I got a “page not found” error in my browser because it was looking for the links with a different URL. Now it’s working fine.

    I think in your case, when you chose “topics” as your Category Base, WordPress rewrote the instructions to .htaccess so that links were working again. This is just an educated guess, as I’m very new to WordPress.

    You might double check your .htaccess file using an FTP program (you may have to “show invisible items”). Just be sure that your .htaccess file has read and write permissions (I don’t know if you need execute–I don’t think so).

    Hope this helps. Your post certainly helped me.

    Thanks,
    Todd

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: my category links are not working…
    Thread Starter todd-smith

    (@todd-smith)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    Hi Haochi,

    Thanks for helping me.

    I can see the links in my admin, and I see the links on the site, but when I click on a link, I get a 404 error (page not found).

    Thanks,
    Todd

    Forum: Installing WordPress
    In reply to: potential installation conflicts
    Thread Starter todd-smith

    (@todd-smith)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    thanks! 🙂

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