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Back to the original subject…

Yahoo be back.

Yahoo Speaks!

Hello Bob,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Web Hosting. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to assist you.

I understand that the blog installed in your account is unable to connect to the MySQL database.

Thank you for reporting us the problem you have encountered and I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you.

We have been just informed by our engineers that there is some problem with our MySQL servers and you may encounter one or more of the following problems with the MySQL server:

* Unable to connect to the database
* Can’t connect to MySQL server on ‘mysql’ (61) [Using hostname – mysql]
* The system is either busy or unavailable Please try again later
* #2003 – The server is not responding error message.
* Error connecting to the blog
* Error making database connection

Our Engineers are looking into any difficulties you reported and I again apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced.

Currently there is no time frame for this problem but I am sure that we will come out with a resolution very soon. Once this problem is resolved you will be notified.

Should you wish to contact us regarding this issue, please refer to case number: XXXXXXX

Our engineering team is working on this issue and soon you will be able to access the database.

I appreciate your patience in this regard.

Please do not hesitate to reply if you need further assistance.

Regards,

Flavio
Yahoo! Customer Care”

After some long comtemplation with my good friend Jack Daniels…

This is getting more and more complicated, so I’m going to start over. I will mull and continue to read the documentation, and will return if I have more questions.

I appreciate all of the help!

(well, not Yahoo Tech Support, that’s for sure.)

Unfortunately, I am stuck with Yahoo. ??

Based on the above:

– I have wiped out all other blog directories.

– I created a new blog directory under /blog following the link provided by headlessspider (btw, ew) above.

– The old blog is still there under /blog1.

– When I try to login into /blog1/wp-admin/, I get the infamous:

“Can’t select database
We were able to connect to the database server (which means your username and password is okay) but not able to select the blog1 database.”

– I searched the documentation for importing the old database into the new one, but must not be using the right keywords.

Your help and patience with this newbie is deeply appreciated!

This is an excellent forum, seriously. You guys are incredible.

But I mucked this up beyond belief. I’m now getting all sorts of ugly errors and displays with no presentation headers or footers.

Any mistakes or misunderstandings are mine alone, and not the fault of the experts.

Would it be best if I wiped both blog folders clean and restore it from my PC?

And delete all the pertinetn subdomains at the same time.

If so, what would be the next step in restoration?

Yoursteps are clear, but I must be missing something.

When I try to log into example.com/oldblog, I get:

“Sorry, the page you requested was not found.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.”

Good to hear and appreciate the help.

Every file from my old blog is in the folder /oldblog including the data bases. It has not been touched. Another backup is on my local PC, so if the /oldblog gets destroyed, we have the copy down on my PC.

The bottom line is I want to end up with my blog on a subdomain, which is hat I should have done in the first place.

Thanks/