GoDaddy and INSERT INTO wp_postmeta issues

  • Hello,

    I am in the process of transferring a website I built for a friend from my server to his (unfortunately hosted on GoDaddy). I moved the installation following the easy instructions outlined here (https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_to_a_New_Server)

    The site worked perfectly on my server. And at first blush seems to work well on his, but upon closer inspection I noticed when editing existing posts I get this error…

    WordPress database error: [Lost connection to MySQL server during query]
    INSERT INTO wp_postmeta (post_id,meta_key,meta_value) VALUES (’70’,’_pingme’,’1′)

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/s/h/y/shystie/html/wp/wp-includes/wp-db.php:102) in /home/content/s/h/y/shystie/html/wp/wp-admin/post.php on line 122

    After going back to the index the posts are updated to reflect the changes, but the error is unnerving. When I enter an entirely new post, there is no issue.

    I did some research and saw a few posts related to extra whitespace in the file causing the “headers already sent” error. I checked wp-db (in Notepad 2) and there was no extra whitespace.

    If anyone has any tips or pointers it would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks,
    Shoshanna

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  • I have WP 2.0.1 and run on GoDaddy and was having the same problem. I found a plugin that seems to fix it. Its the No Ping Wait plugin available here:

    https://somethingunpredictable.com/wp-no-ping-wait/

    Just upload and activate and your all set. Apparently its timing out when pinging other blogs. I don’t have any trackbacks on my blog yet but it sure did the trick for me.

    Thank you oh so VERY VERY MUCH, hovercrafter!

    It works! No more “White Screen of Death”!

    Yes, thank youse veby veby much!

    I transferred to WP websites to a new host. One transferred fine, but the other gets the “preg_match(): No ending delimiter ‘!’ found in…” I tried the no_ping plugin but it didn’t fix the problem. I’ll let you know if I find anything that does.

    I’ve got no idea what I fixed, but this is what I did. I dropped all the tables in the database and reinstalled them from the file I had backed up at my old location. The “preg_match” error was still showing up. I updated my permalink structure and the error message magically vanished. I’ve got no idea why.

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