franko1497

Thanks for that. The theme was the problem. Followed your advice and all’s well now. Strange because I’m already using the problem theme on another site without any problems. Will trouble shoot the download next week but for now, the site is back up and running. Many thanks.

Found the problem. It was Akismet. Disabled it and everything OK.

Seems to have posted twice for some peculiar reason. <sigh> I hate software.

Ok, so I now have three wordpress xml files on my server. These are wordpress.2012-04-09.xml, wordpress.2012-04-09.xml_txt and wordpress.2012-04-09.xml_1.txt. What gives? How come wordpress can’t recognise it’s own files.

Is it possible to import a file that’s on the web server. It looks like the upload function of the ‘upload and import’ form is working ok, but the import part isn’t for some reason. Baffles me.

Well, it certainly should have. Unfortunately, these things never work the way they’re supposed to, do they. I did everything I’m supposed to, exported the content into a .xml file. Went to import and got the message that a .xml.txt file (where did the .txt come from?) was missing. Reset permissions to 777. Tried again. Now I get the message, “Sorry, there has been an error.
This does not appear to be a WXR file, missing/invalid WXR version number.’ The file name is wordpress.2012-04-09.xml That’s what WordPress exported so WTF isn’t it a valid wordpress file????????

This is all just too hard. Think I’ll try Joomla and see if that works.

Well, it certainly should have. Unfortunately, these things never work the way they’re supposed to, do they. I did everything I’m supposed to, exported the content into a .xml file. Went to import and got the message that a .xml.txt file (where did the .txt come from?) was missing. Reset permissions to 777. Tried again. Now I get the message, “Sorry, there has been an error.
This does not appear to be a WXR file, missing/invalid WXR version number.’ The file name is wordpress.2012-04-09.xml That’s what WordPress exported so WTF isn’t it a valid wordpress file????????

This is all just too hard. Think I’ll try Joomla and see if that works.

No worries oprc. I’m already sorted so it’s fine with me.

oprc if you read my post carefully, you’ll notice that we had to change permissions from the document root up. Even the home directory had to have 755 permissions. Not saying this will solve your problem but give it a try.

Issue resolved! It turned out to be a bug in Solaris in relation to php and wordpress. Solution was to loosen up permissions even on the home directory to 755. Working just fine now.

Anyone else having the same problem and running a different *nix variant might want to try this solution also.

wpsaranr wrote:

@franko1497,
Hi, its seems wordpress installed fine but there is no wp admin area found in your server, that what I found
You may login by using :https://unlimitedmarketing.net/wordpress/wp-login.php this url but you can’t access this url : https://unlimitedmarketing.net/wordpress/wp-admin/ which means that there is no wp-admin folder or there is no complete wp-admin folder,
check wp-admin folder in server, there is a problem

The wp-admin folder is there and contains 80 files and 7 directories in Filezilla. The admin.php (containing 238 lines of code) is present as are admin-ajax, admin-footer, admin-functions, admin-header and adin-post (*.php). So wp-admin appears to be all present and correct, just won’t display in any browser (tried FF, Chrome, Safari, Opera and <shudder> IE all with the same effect.)

Kionae – no, view source just shows an empty page. Nada…

Thanks Kionae. I’ll look into it.

Have you tried simply turning on the DEBUG option in your wp-config.php file so that any PHP error displays when you’re accessing the blank page(s)? That would at least give you a starting point for tracking down the problem.

Done that. No errors appear. Neither does the dashboard.

Removed 3.3.1 and installed 3.2.1. Same effect – that is, I can log in but nothing appears when I do.

Not that simple I’m afraid. My sites all run on Sun servers running Solaris. Never put a site on a Windows server in 16 years of designing web sites.

Tim, please read the thread. I cannot access the dashboard – IT DOESN’T APPEAR!