dgrady

Hot dog! Thanks, guys, that’s a big help. Sorry I missed that other thread; I wouldn’t have had to bother you all. Much appreciated.

As a specific example, if I were to type the following code in the page editor,
<ul>
<li>1</li>
<li>1</li>
<ul>
<li>2</li>
<li>2</li>
</ul>
<li>1</li>
<ul>
<li>2</li>
<ul>
<li>3</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>2</li>
</ul>
<li>1</li>
</ul>

the code that WordPress generates is
<ul>
<li>1</li>
<li>1</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>2</li>
<li>2</li>
</ul>
<li>1</li>
<ul>
<li>2</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>3</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>2</li>
</ul>
<li>1</li>
which is incorrect.

The problem seems to be WordPress and not the WYSIWYG editor; no matter how I type a list in, with the editor or with the plain HTML editor, WordPress changes the code I put in. I’m running WordPress 2.0.1; is there any way to get around this?

Let’s talk about this problem some more. I’ve been having the same issue, haven’t been able to find any comments on it. If you use the WYSIWYG editor in 2.0 to create nested lists, WordPress does not appear to be correctly generating the code. What’s more, if you manually correct the code and then save, WordPress seems to be breaking it again. Are we overlooking something simple, or is this a larger problem?

Okay, I found this information on the Information Technology department’s site:

“The W&M web environment is hosted on multiple Sun Solaris servers sitting behind a Cisco load-balancer that takes care of secure connections (SSL). The web servers run Apache v.1.3.x and PHP v.4.3.x with PEAR, gd, ldap, and both MySQL and Oracle database libraries installed.

PHP is configured with register_globals turned off (the default for PHP v.4.3.x). PHP utilizes the open_basedir directive on each top-level folder to provide one layer of additional security compared to the old web server’s configuration. PHP is restricted from executing shell or command-line code via exec, proc, or shell commands.”

I don’t know a whole heck of a lot about web hosting or how WordPress works- can anyone tell if that setup is going to cause problems with WordPress?

I am using http to run the install script. I’m not sure how the permissions on the file are set; my college provides every student with some webspace, and I just have this mapped as a network drive that I access with Windows Explorer (sad, I know). Incidentally, the address is
https://people.wm.edu/~dcgrad/wordpress/
which, it suddenly occured to me, might be helpful. Thanks for the comments, though!