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Thanks for that! that makes sense. I had some success with unchecking the “download and import” box – seemed to get everything, though it told me a long list of stuff it things it didn’t do… I also found that this site, which I hadn’t touched in a while (uh, my mom’s… so not a “paying” client, ha!) needed more server space allocated to it, duh. A combination of that and unchecking the box seemed to work.

skippix, I’m assuming you FTPd these broken down XMLs into a folder in “uploads”? If so, how then did you proceed with the import? I’m trying garydarling’s strategy now but I’m kind of frustrated. Also, when I opened the xml file in dreamweaver, its color coding showed me it didn’t like all the characters (like apostrophes and stuff) that are also part of PHP etc. Wondered if that stuff not being commented out or whatever could screw it up. But I’m so not about to do a fix on THAT for 250 blog posts!! garr. Also, any tips for media library transfer would be much appreciated…

Duh again – thought to compare this to the .htaccess from a working client site, and have amended it to reflect the settings from that one.

That fixed the internal server error, and all is well, thank you so much! The replacement thing WORKED! I’ll have that big glass of red now, yes, thank you. Cheers to you, Esmi.

huh. as I hadn’t modified .htaccess, I hadn’t looked. Here’s what it says, though (this is the top-level .htaccess file, haven’t looked at the ones in any of my server’s _vti_ files, and it doesn’t have a php.ini file, btw), which doesn’t mean anything to me:

# -FrontPage-

Options None

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
require group authors administrators
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthType Basic
AuthName cellphonetaskforce.org
AuthUserFile /home/cptf/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/cptf/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

duh, so, I have an 881K sql file in the backup that is obviously the db backup, and I realize what I’ll have to do is restore THAT to have my content, of course, and I’m uncertain of how to do that restore. I am going to do some searching on here for tutorials on that.

So, from a clean 3.2 download, I overwrote the top-level wp files (renaming/replacing the config file), and the admin and includes folders + their contents. I am now getting:
A user login request and then a 500 Internal Server Error, even for my index.html page. I’m not sure what the hell I’ve done now. I have logged into my file manager in the control panel, but don’t see a lack of “read” priviledges. I also went and reset db user permissions to “all” (one had somehow switched off), still screwed up.

I am considering uninstalling everything, or even wiping this account off my server, doing a clean reinstall and replacing the wp-content folder with the backup I have from earlier. Is there a serious danger in doing this? Is all my content in my backup? I am sure I’ll have plenty of cleanup to do but am wondering whether this will work, period…

Thanks – me neither! I really feel bolshi about not wanting to mess with it in this site! I use it for, uh, everything these days… That is, ALL my other recent sites are running on ata and 3.2 and no issues.

In trying your “upload everything sans wp-content” suggestion, I noticed that there was a config-sample file still sitting in the top level – not sure how that happened, though I remember getting interrupted or something the day I set up this site, and I’m not sure that that or some other related screwiness in original file loading hasn’t been screwing things up. We’ll see, thanks again.

Okay, thanks – right now, I’ve just started trying to upload the files from my backup zip, via DreamWeaver, though I’m a little anxious as to why it’s not asking me if I want to overwrite stuff or not. I’m going to stop that and try one of your last two suggestions. I’m loathe to switch themes as I think I’ll have to go back and do a lot of work in Atahualpa if I turn it off and on again, or at least that’s what I remember from past versions. But I’m willing to do what I have to.

Thank you for taking a moment. I’m not an idiot but, as I said, I’m not a developer, and this sort of thing is extremely unnerving for me, nice to even have moral support.

And, I totally failed to make notes of the errors WP called when it failed to install 3.2 initially, which was stupid, and probably held the keys to whatever buggered this up.

SUCCESS! And one possibly useful final note:

I followed the fix instructions in the css.php file (above and from original thread in bfa forum), and got bad and weird results – namely removed all the styles! – and when I switched it back (I combed over my syntax very carefully and tried this all several times, both via DreamWeaver upload and via the editor in WP), the site displayed a blank page. Don’t know if there’s some issue I’m missing on my local end, but it just wasn’t working.

So, I downloaded the file offered at the end of that BFA post – css.php.zip, and first erased then replaced the css.php file with the new one, no opening or editing, and all is VERY WELL now. Use the repaired file they’re offering if you have any issues doing the simple css test repair.

Thanks to all for your input.

thanks for the notes, chjmdm & alchymyth, I will follow that up and see if the CSS fixes it. I thought of looking through their code, but honestly, the idea of finding the one line that might be causing this was not really within my abilities for working hours, ha.

And for what it’s worth, I either retype, or run through a .txt file in Dreamweaver or Notepad – and clean up there – any Word copy I get from clients. And this was broken in this manner from step 1 install, with only clean WP install + new activation of theme and minimal text (you could tell, because navigation titled “SOMETHING & SOMETHING ELSE” would come out looking like “SOMETHING &SOMETHINGELSE”).

Very hopeful this will cure it, and will also see what comes back from the BFA forum – thanks all!

Oh, and nrepair, I was just wondering, too, what your site is?

Yeah, exactly, I’m not remotely interested in coding hard spaces through a whole site, AND this will NOT be useful for the Atahualpa footer text and any other automatically generated content. Could do the search and replace, but jeez, this is a really popular theme, and flexible, and I would THINK they would either know the fix for this new release or get on it really fast – it’s a really bad one! Doesn’t render the site useless, but sure makes the designer look like di*k.

I have managed to post in a hopefully appropriate thread over at Bytesforall and will update here, nrepair, if I get any joy from them (or otherwise).

What a pain – and no other replies – I would think this would be a pretty major issue… Tried to sign up for the Atahualpa forums but couldn’t get any access to actually POST anything.