Johnb81

Can you confirm if after posting a page the .htaccess does not change, or it does change?

So in that case the best option is to contact the hosting provider. I’ve seen several cases before where it was a misconfiguration from their end.

Sorry we cannot help more.

Did you try to upload a fresh install of WordPress? Backup your website first to be on the safe side.

Are you using any plugins related to permalinks? Start by disabling those and see what happens.

If you have access to the WordPress MySQL database via phpMyAdmin you can check what is the exact Admin username and reset the password from there. Refer to https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Resetting_Your_Password#Through_phpMyAdmin.

Once you sort this problem out you can sort the rest.

Do you mean you are getting a whitescreen or what? Can you send a screenshot?

The problem seems not to be incorrect incorrect details in the wp-config.php file but it seems more of a MySQL configuration.

Are you using the same MySQL username to access more than 1 database? It seems that the user you are using or has access to multiple databases or does not have access to the database you are using.

Ideally you should use 1 MySQL user for each database and set the WordPress database as a default database for the user.

If you would like to move WordPress from the /wordpress folder to the root of the domain, you can refer to this document:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress

As Brandon suggested the WordPress installation is not able to communicate with the database. So basically as the error states you have a wrong username, password, database name or host.

In this case contact the support at tiscali and ask them to confirm that the details (username, password, dbname and host) are the correct ones because your WordPress installation is not able to connect to the database using these connection settings.

Can you let us know the old and new URL?

What do you mean it will not work? Are you getting any errors or so? To make life easier why don’t you upgrade the 2.2.1 to 3.4 and then export the blog posts?

That is because you didn’t change the URL in the settings of WordPress from the dashboard.

you can do so manually from the database form the wp_options table. You should change the value of the first row, with option name siteurl.

Refer to this document for more information: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress

This applies to your scenario as well: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress

yes that might be an issue since it seems your theme was using pagenavi script instead of the actual divs.

Maybe you can write your own divs then and try them out?

Hi Andrew,

What about WordPress upgrades? There is nothing to activate when you upgrade WordPress manually unless there is a db change. Does it still fail?