franko1497

To be honest, I can’t be bothered. The site I’ve taken over will just have to be maintained through the dashboard which means I can’t really do anything to make the site better from a design perspective.

Pity, there’s so much I don’t like about the design but if all I can do is what the dashboard lets me do, it’ll just have to stay the way it is.

Ok, downloaded a fresh zip file. Cleaned out the server and did a fresh install from scratch. Still the same effect.

It seems to me that v3.3.1 is not ready for prime time yet. Is there an archive of backward versions? I can try with 3.3.0 and if that doesn’t work go back to the release before that and so on until I find a stable one.

Re the MySql php thing. Why on earth would anyone develop and application that relies on a databse but which isn’t built with the components the databse actually has?

Next step is to deleted the wordpress folders from the server, re-download wordpress 3.3.1 from www.ads-software.com and do a complete, clean reinstall once again. Starting now…..

Ooops. Ok, well that’s not it then. I get a full readout when I run phpinfo.php on the server, and I use php to process form info for a number of sites running on that server, so I’m sure php is installed ok. I ran a ‘hello world’ just to make sure.

Govpatel – I replaced the wp-admin folder but just to make sure I deleted it from the server and have re-uploaded it from the extracted zip file on my workstation.

Still no luck. In case it was a browser setting I’ve tried with FF, Chrome and even [shudder] Internet Explorer. With Chrome and IE I get a Server 500 error; with FF I get nothing at all.

That’s for /wp-admin/ I can login ok with all browsers so wp-login is working ok.

Tim, you hit it in one. WP 3 requires PHP 5.2.4 whereas my ISP is running PHP 5.2.17. I’ve asked them to upgrade but that’s for sure the issue.

Govpatel – thanks for the time you spent trying to resolve my issue.

Yeah, as I said, I can login ok but once I’ve logged in all I get is a blank screen, no dashboard.

I meant index.php; there is such a file in my wordpress root. However, it does nothing either. I also have an index.php in the wp-admin directory. Again, nada.

I installed wordpress 2 without any issues at all previously on the same server with the same settings. But wordpress 3 doesn’t seem to want to play at all.

Working for me with that URL also. And also now if I input https://www.unlimitedmarketing.net/wordpress/index.html. Login works ok, too. But still no dashboard.

I’ve done as you suggested and replaced the wp-admin directory on the server from a new downloaded zip file but still no luck. Unfortunately I have to take over management of a site that is currently hosted on wordpress and I need to learn it inside out pronto but it’s not helping that I can’t get a test install working. I don’t want to have to rebuild the site from scratch in another application but it just may come to that if wordpress is so flaky.

I find I cannot run any of the .php files from the browser address bar. Makes me think that wordpress isn’t finding the php interpreter. Is there somewhere one can configure the path to this? I would have thought that wordpress would have had to establish a connection to the interpreter before completing installation. Or could it be something else again? All I get is blank screens in my browser window when, eg, I run https://www.unlimitedmarketing.net/wordpress/wp-admin/index.php which should surely bring something up?

I deleted everything wordpress from my web server. I then installed a newly downloaded copy of wordpress 3.3.1 by unzipping it and uploading all the files to the web server. I then created a new mysql database and edited the wp-config file with the new database’s parameters and uploaded that to my web server. I then ran the install.php on the web server. I got the message everything installed ok, got the login screen, logged in ok but then only got a blank screen instead of the dashboard. So yes, it was a clean install to the server.