annymueller

Photo works and avatar works as well. Mind you, I could not get my photo to replace the avatar as the same size and at the same location as the avatar.

Just wanted to add a quick note to those on GoDaddy servers. In the hosting section there is a quick way to change the php version for each hosting package. The highest php version one can choose is 5.3 which is more than enough for WordPress 3.4.

Well!

I upgraded my PHP on Godaddy to 5.3 and had a few minutes to kill so what the hey, I decided to browse to the install.php page. It ran first shot, found the database, installed WordPress and it really only took 5 minutes.

Many thanks to all of you. It looks good so far. I have a challenge ahead to learn the WP functionality as I’m at the beginning of the learning curve. I will be marking this topic as resolved.

Till we meet again.

I simply assumed that my GoDaddy server was on PHP 5 or higher since it’s been out for so long and also since mySQL was version 5.0. Duh! I’ll have to have my site moved to a different server with at least PHP 5.3.3. Thanks, mystery solved. Sorry for all the trouble.

Seondary issue: My home machine is running PHP 5 and mySQL 5 and am able to run the install.php but when trying to connect to localhost (apache server) it does not find my database. It was very late and I tried a few times but I did not have access to internet help so I gave up until I resolve my internet issues. If anyone has a quick idea here, I would appreciate it, otherwise not a biggie. I will repost should I not find a solution by searching the forum.

Okay. I did all that. Same parse error.

I emptied the database.
I deleted all files and folders.
I re-downloaded WordPress 3.4 zip.
I extracted the files.
I FTP’ed all the files and folders to the wp directory.
I browsed the following URL using both Chrome and IE
https://www.dasecho.com/wp/wp-admin/install.php
with the exact same results in both browsers and my original browsing.

I deleted all and re-uploaded now 5 times with all the exact same results:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/content/d/a/s/dasecho/html/wp/wp-includes/option.php on line 225

I’m on godaddy and the mySQL server is different from my website. I don’t think that would cause this.

Any other suggestions besides re-deleting and re-uploading which takes me over half an hour each time?

Sorry, I’m new to WordPress. I just didn’t want an empty database.

I just deleted all files and reloaded them. I get the exact same parse error. You’re welcome to type in the URL and see for yourself.

https://www.dasecho.com/wp/wp-admin/install.php