2.6 has broken my website!

  • Hi all,

    I upgraded to 2.6 and my site reverted to default/empty. If you typed in the URL it showed a 404 message in the default WordPress template. Furthermore, if I tried to log in to WordPress with the default ‘admin’ username and my password, it returned ‘Invalid username.’ Not a problem, I thought, I’ll just delete this directory and get my old 2.5 one back.

    My site is hosted by DreamHost who offer a one-click install/upgrade option for WordPress on their servers. When you upgrade WordPress it archives your previous install by tacking ‘.old’ onto the end of it and creating a new directory with the new version of WordPress in it. I deleted the new directory and knocked the ‘.old’ off the end of my original install. However, to my surprise, the problem hasn’t gone away: it has remained exactly the same. Any suggestions?

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  • Hi,

    I had some problems since upgraded to 2.6. After two days working and searching in this forum I “downgraded” to 2.51 and now I am a happy man!
    regards from Brazil.

    a “one-click” installation is different than a regular one. Sounds like you didn’t change the options – if it was in a new directory, then it would have put the DB settings to point to the new one. You’ll probably have to log into the database via phpMyAdmin and change your settings to point to the right installation.

    Moving WordPress

    Thread Starter Dion

    (@pyxelfish)

    Ok, I had to uninstall and reinstall to get anything to work. ??

    They should withdraw 2.6, it clearly has permalink issues. I’m glad i have a dev site to test on before trying it live

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