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Hotdiggity dog, it works! yea! dreamweaver had weird characters in for the line returns.

Thanks for your help!

I used Dreamweaver to create the file, uploaded it via the Cpanel. I don’t see any settings on the Cpanel for uploading options. Cpanel lists it as a text/x-generic file.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]

This is what I copied and pasted from WP to the .htaccess file. Since I don’t speak code, I do not know what the typo would be.

update on the above. I have found how to change the permissions on the .htaccess file thru Cpanel. However, that hasn’t changed the problem of getting the 500 error with that file uploaded, and without it, the 404 error on pages with the pretty permalinks.

Where do I go from here?

I did do the reading, but following the instructions got me to this point where I can’t log in any more.

I THOUGHT i had a blog thru WordPress.com, but they rudely informed me that since my blog was self-hosted, I could only get support from these forums.

So there you have it – no support from these forums either, except for referring me to items I’ve read and followed. So don’t give me your attitude – this may be basic stuff for you but not for all WordPress users. All I want is to use this stupid program, and not have to go into .php files and change things I don’t understand.

I have the old database still on the server but I have no idea how to access it. If my old blog was working properly I could have exported the files, but since it was corrupted, I wasn’t able to log into that one either.

Maybe this is all just a sign that I should not use WordPress?

This argument is a moot point now – I deleted the whole blog folder from my server and started fresh with a new program. This means that I’ve probably given up any chance of saving my old blogs. But at this point I’d just be happy with a blog that worked and would let me log in. As I posted yesterday, https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/364011?replies=2#post-1394242, I can no longer log in to WP.

And if I over edited that one file, why would i have had the same problems if I reloaded the old file, unedited by me at all? But, as I said, this is a moot point, I’ve moved on from trying to fix that problem. I have new problems now.

oye vey – too much for this late on a Friday- my brain is already fried!

I tried changing the WP URL and blog URL to the old database, just got to my error page. Tomorrow I will attempt the PhpMyAdmin route. I may be back. Thanks for your patience!

I used a different database name. How would I retrieve the content from there?

If WP had worked right I could have saved the database I guess, but since it wouldn’t let me in to change anything, and just had one error after another, No, I don’t have a database backup. I think. I do have the whole folder that was on my server copied onto a dvd as backup, but I have no idea how to get just the database out of there. The content – uploads folder is the only one that had current dates on it for when I made my blog posts. If the database is in that folder, I have no idea what it would be named – there is no database listed in the file names.

I also can’t find any file for wp-content directory. I did look at the permissions info, but it states that if I uploaded WP myself I would probably not need to change the permissions. So much for following directions.

This is SO NOT EASY!

No, I had to take the old blog down in order to get the new one running. The old one had all sorts of problems so I ended up doing a total clean sweep.

I do have my content files uploaded, can I just reconnect to them?

when I tried to import I got this message ” Unable to create directory /home/jsphotof/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

Again, how do I figure this out? Or if the old blog is down, is this a moot point?

Ok, I’m in. Now, can I import previous WP blog content to the new version?

Oh, doh, gotta change to my personal domain, don’t i.

Did that but can’t log in with the user name and password, am getting yet another password sent.

so much for a minute install – it’s been about 5 hours now. getting dull around the edges…

Firefox can’t find your link.

Ok, I checked to make sure there were no spaces before or after in the wp-config.pho file and the we-login.pho file, which is the one listed on my log-in page as the problem. Now my blog page reads “Error establishing a database connection”

So that didn’t work as planned.

And this was from the files downloaded from the net, not my backup files. So if the files I’m using that I downloaded from WordPress are wrong, now what do I do?