Funky Server Error ?

  • This morning I deleted a testblog in my ISP space, and dropped all the tables. Nothing of WP was left there at all.
    (I’ve done this next bit 6 times now, with identical results each time)
    Create new directory.
    Upload WP
    Upload wp-config
    Run install – all goes well
    BUT
    1 – When I view the new install, I see an old stylesheet I used.
    2 – If I go to wp-login.php, and hover the ‘Back to blog’ link, that points back to my real site (Tamba2) and logging in takes me to Tamba2
    3 – Viewing source shows my tamba2 url in there
    4 – My testblog there did not have any link to Tamba2
    BUT
    Thinking I had messed up the version I uploaded (I have several versions of mingus laying about the place), I downloaded the latest nightly (which I have not used before) and used that as the full upload. The same behaviour is apparent, but it *is* the index.php from 1.3pre-a.
    Tech support are mystified.
    If I download wp-layout.css, it is the default one. Yet looking at the blog, it’s not.
    Each time I have tried, I have used a new directory name.
    Each time I have tried, I have used different table prefix’s after dropping the previous table.
    It’s probably an issue with something on my machine, but it’s a wierd one.
    Unzipper: winrar
    Ftp: FileZilla
    Any ideas ?

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  • Now podz. This will be no help to you at all but I have experienced similar *mysterious* XFiles type persistence in the face of all reason and logic. Is it a cache thing? I am stumped.

    Thread Starter Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    I pondered cache……but where ?
    I downloaded FileZilla to use instead of the ftp I used first thinking that may do it (odd that an ftp would though)
    Website ? Could be .. I have no access to all the folders which I do on my domain.
    Gremlins ??

    Thread Starter Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    On the 13th, I deleted everything from the wp install. All files. The database. Everything.
    I just downloaded the latest nightly.
    Installed it.
    I see an old stylesheet.
    The login page leads me to my real domain, not the ISP space where this blog is installed.
    I cleared the cache, and tried again. In the activity bar (bottom left in FF) I see my ISP address flicker a few times, then it goes straight to Tamba2. I have no redirects from ISP to T2.
    Can anyone think of something I could try to solve this ?

    podz have you got IE 6 installed by any chance?

    Thread Starter Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    It’s in the machine …… wife uses it sometimes, and I only ever do to check CSS.

    I have just had a really mysterious experience with supernatural file persistency. If I publish the details the forum will think I have lost my marbles (if they dont already). But a new installed index file seemed to have a kind of memory of what it was like before and reordered the menu. Nothing to do with CSS. Wierd.

    Thread Starter Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    There is much strangeness surrounding this ….. I’ll try an install from a different machine later and see what happens.

    Thread Starter Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    Sorted :))))
    Somehow, the site url was being entered into the _options table as my tamba2 address. I altered that to the correct one, and all is good.
    Odd though – it ‘guessed’ everything correctly when being installed.
    Right, I’m off to play then ??

    Thread Starter Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    Cookies.
    Clear all the cookies, and the problems go away.
    (Mind you, so do all the logins you’ve got on a zillion other sites ?? )

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