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Well I’ll be doggone…the site is working. Thanks Josh!

Hey Josh — thanks. That worked to create the table, for sure. Site still isn’t showing up. I don’t even know where to go from here. Any suggestions are welcome.

Got it! Media Temple resolved the issue for me, which was contained in the WP database. See: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/246243?replies=7

There is another solution as well (although not as easy as Lil Chris’ advice). If you examine your db files and see this string…

/nfs/c01/h03/

…and you’re familiar with working with phpMyAdmin, replace that string in any table that contains that string with:

/home/

If you follow Lil Chris’ advice, you might see that string in your “Store uploads in this folder” note at the top of the page…simply change the first string to home if you see that code in that input box, and it should work.

Got it! Media Temple resolved the issue, which was contained in the WP database. See: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/246243?replies=7

There is another solution as well (although not as easy as Lil Chris’ advice). If you examine your db files and see this string…

/nfs/c01/h03/

…and you’re familiar with working with phpMyAdmin, replace that string in any table that contains that string with:

/home/

If you follow Lil Chris’ advice, you might see that string in your “Store uploads in this folder” note at the top of the page…simply change the first string to home if you see that code in that input box, and it should work.

There is another solution as well (although not as easy as Lil Chris’ advice). If you examine your db files and see this string…

/nfs/c01/h03/

…and you’re familiar with working with phpMyAdmin, replace that string in any table that contains that string with:

/home/

If you follow Lil Chris’ advice, you might see that string in your “Store uploads in this folder” note at the top of the page…simply change the first string to home if you see that code in that input box, and it should work.

I haven’t tried it yet, but you might check out Community Submitted News at https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/community-submitted-news/.

Let me know how it goes…

Hey rosschapman – did you ever discover the issue behind the “Too many levels of symbolic links” problem?

Hello Reddwarf16 – I, too, am receiving a note that I have too many levels of symbolic links. I posted a request for help several days ago to no avail. I’ve even searched the Web for help beyond WordPress to no avail. But, I’m getting this glitch on all sites where I or my clients have use the automatic upgrade to WP 2.8.4

Can anyone help Reddwarf16 or me with this issue?

Ok – I shuffled some things around so the code isn’t on the front page anymore. You can see it at https://www.appomattoxhistory.com/category/feature. This code also is showing up in my WP backend under the Media tab.

Sure would appreciate any help at all.

In addition – I discovered the code in the back end of WP in the “Media” tab – the repetition of the code was everywhere. How to eliminate?

I changed the engine for the theme and it eliminated the code on the front page. However, my DB shows a number of repeated links in both the taxonomy and relationship tables. Anyone else have this problem? Do you suppose it’s generated by the theme?

It’s one domain among many on a server at media temple. But, I own and serve up all the domains on that server.

Yeah – lost the whole Web site and had to start over.

You saved my life with that link. Thank you!

MandM – I had the same problem and was up all night trying to resolve it. I know exactly what you’re going through. Thank the goddess this blog was a ‘test’ blog of sorts and I hadn’t posted there in a while – because it appears gone with the wind. From what I can tell, version 2.3.1 erased access to my password in MySQL; I then needed to create a new user and password to try to access the site. That worked, but my database can’t be reached. I’m getting the same error messages as you, where there’s no logic in the lack of connection. I’ll be anxious to hear if anyone else had this problem…

UPDATE: Ok, I resolved the problem. I created a new user and password in MySQL and gave it all privileges to the database. I changed the username and password in the wp-config.php file, and voila! It worked. So I deleted the former username and then went back and added it in again, but with a new password. I once again changed it in the wp-admin.php file. Voila! It worked again. I was able to then delete the second username and password I had created to get into the database in the first place.

Now – to figure out why version 2.3 eliminated my link categories. Hopefully someone else had that problem as well…