Wrong path? Posts & media uploads fail…

  • My shared hosting service “upgraded” my web site and their database servers to new servers, causing some previous WordPress paths (e.g. DBbackup plugin) to fail. Was able to correct some, but when I attempt to publish a post or save a post draft or upload media, these operations all fail back to the dashboard.

    Moving my blog to a new host with a new WP install and importing the database contents caused this problem to move to the new host (I may have used a poor workflow to do the move). So now the same problem exists in both blogs on both shared hosting domains.

    All paths in my DB tables look good, so the bad path must be in some php file. Couldn’t find any bad paths in config.php or settings.php. Where else can I look – or is there another fix?

    Thanks All!

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  • Admin/Settings/Miscellaneous/Store uploads in this folder. Should be wp-content/uploads

    Thread Starter jimcoe

    (@jimcoe)

    Thanks esmi – but it is already, and I tried the field below that with both an absolute path and blank.

    Actually, attempting to upload images (via media > add new with flash method) does not fail to the dashboard like attempting to post or save a post draft, as I stated above. It does “crunching…” for a long time than nothing more – no image editing or such. Image is NOT added to the library.

    On the old blog, the media library could not access existing images, now it can.

    Also, I just used Dreamweaver edit/replace to search all WP folder files for parts of the bad server path and only found one .xml file in a video plugin – which I corrected. That had no effect on the problem.

    It does “crunching…” for a long time than nothing more – no image editing or such. Image is NOT added to the library.

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/164999

    You may want to check with your host that the GD library is available.

    Thread Starter jimcoe

    (@jimcoe)

    Good idea esmi!

    Turns out I never did the shared hosting control panel process to create a new php.ini file for this new domain. Did that now, and confirmed that GD extension is in there – but that didn’t fix any WordPress problems.

    Thread Starter jimcoe

    (@jimcoe)

    More stuff which didn’t help:
    1. Followed procedures on:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_The_Site_URL
    2. Changed to default theme (no help, so changed back).
    3. Deactivated all plugins (except wp-dbmanager).
    4. Edited database again – fixed paths in wp-options and wp-posts
    Anyone have more ideas?
    5. Downloaded fresh version 2.8.6 zip file, unzipped and uploaded all files (with overwrite – but didn’t delete any files first).

    Thanks All!

    Thread Starter jimcoe

    (@jimcoe)

    After deleting database and WordPress folders and starting over from scratch, then importing the edited database, things are only a little better. By the way, this allowed the ultimate test of my plugins, because with a brand new default WP installation I had only the default plugins and those were not activated. I’ve installed a few plugins again.

    Still fails back to dashboard on attempts to post or save draft.

    On “Media > New”, it now uploads, with no editing provided and the images can be seen via ftp on the server, but only images from before the problem started are displayed in the library. The December folder is there, with the latest small .jpg images, but “December” does not show in the media library month filter drop-down.

    Also, saved the blog under “Tools > Exports”, before deleting it, using the .xml file format. It’s small, but still times out on trying to import it again – so that also failed.

    Tried everything I could find here so far and all previous advice.

    Any more ideas?

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