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Turned off safe mod and this fixed the problem!

Hi mark777, first, thanks for the FAST reply, you are a great asset!

installed testession.php script and ran it. Here is the response:

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 10003 is not allowed to access /tmp owned by uid 0 in /var/www/vhosts/mywebsite.com.co/httpdocs/testsession.php on line 2

Fatal error: session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: Failed to initialize storage module: files (path: ) in /var/www/vhosts/mywebsite.com.co/httpdocs/testsession.php on line 2

My current thinking is I did not do the chmod correctly, and am looking at the linux chmod command.
here is session file info:

ls -ld
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 26 07:27

marak777..thanks for the post. I found you post and think I am having the same problem as circumstances are the same as mine.

I was installing a magento system on my vds, plesk 9.3 and needed mcrypt on the sever. using putty and yum, I managed to installed it without much of a problem but apparently I yum also upgraded php to 5.3.8. This has not been a problem for my other non-wp sites.

The one wordpress site I am running shows the fp fine. BUT any navigation via the menu or other links resulted in a white page. I have turned on error reporting and while some tipico php notices there is no hard error.

I chmoded /php/sesssion to 777. This did not resolve the problem.
Session file permissions after I did the chmod:

# ls -ld
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 26 07:27

I opened a ticket to my server support group.

Summary…all the ‘theories’ on moving wp are pretty much just that theories. The only proper way, and one that works every time is uploading the DB and changing the embedded url’s.

We have completed the project with ZERO downtime.

thanks for the splitter idea…to bad it just wont spew out the entire db and then one could split the xml by hand…

MichaelH…thank you…I have seen this recommended but when I uploaded the root/db to a subdomain…when I say try to get into wp-admin, it doesn’t execute the php code…it just displays it on the page…

so I haven’t been able to try that method…and it’s a important detail that I should have stated…my bad

I have a wordpress blog I built for an Spanish speaking artist. I work in english but want to turn over the wordpress to him in Spanish. I see the WPMU doesn’t work for the regular wordpress 2.8.

I am not sure how to get the admin portion of wordpress to work in Spanish for him…and english for me….should I install MU and then just gen his site in Spanish?

Thanks in advance for the time to advise….