Blog can’t connect outside server

  • Resolved jonmrich

    (@jonmrich)


    16 years, 4 months ago

    I’ve had all sorts of problems with my new blog. It started when I tried to us WPAU to go from 2.5 to 2.6. Got all sorts of errors, so I tried to start from scratch and upload everything. Good installation. Added in my plug ins and that’s where the problems started happening.

    What I finally figured out is that my blog can’t connect to any other site but what’s on my server. For example, the plugin update notifcation bubble doesn’t show up, I don’t have the option to automatically upgrade any of my plugins on the plug in screen, when I try to post Google XML Sitemap plug in tries to notify Google and I get all sorts of errors. I don’t even get a feed from the development blog or any other feed on my dashboard.

    I have changed all the permissions, opening them to 777 for everything just as a test. Everything else functions correctly (creating posts if Google XML sitemaps is off works fine) unless I have to connect outside of what’s on my server.

    It’s not my host, as I have another blog there with no problems and the same settings and plugin.

    Ideas?

    Thanks,
    JMR

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  • Thread Starter jonmrich

    (@jonmrich)

    PS: This is an issue in both FF and IE. I’ve tried clearing cache turning off and on plugins etc to no avail.

    Thread Starter jonmrich

    (@jonmrich)

    Well, I handled this one on my own. My site is hosted at Go Daddy, so this may apply to them. I don’t know for sure what actually worked, but it did.

    Permissions had nothing to do with it. I ended up deleting my hosting account and starting completely from scratch. This time, I matched the configuration of another blog I have hosted at Go Daddy. Of note, I picked PHP 4 instead of PHP 5 and also picked the less recent MySQL version option (not sure of the numbers though right now).

    Worked like a charm. Installed WordPress and upgraded using the plug in and everything’s working fine.

    Does WP not support PHP 5 perhaps?

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