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Thanks very much, Aleister, for the helpful information. (I’m always happier knowing where and how to tweak.)

I found the syntax and changed it. For other users who may be curious about the same issue, here are my findings:

I changed syntax to
wp_get_archives(‘type=weekly’);

in three of the theme files (theme adapted from Wuhan):
archives.php
header.php
sidebar.php

But the result is not ideal. The date format in the sidebar is now too verbose to fit in the sidebar:

March 27, 2006–April 3, 2006
March 13, 2006–March 19, 2006
March 6, 2006–March 12, 2006

Doubtless I could change that, but I also see that the archive page title for any given week nows reads a generic “Archive for 2006”.

I also wonder what would happen to permalinks, which are famously finicky. So plain ole monthly listings for archives is best for me, I think.

A related question — what determines how many posts are on the index page and when they scroll off to an archive page?

For instance, if the authors for my blog wrote a total of two dozen posts in one day, they wouldn’t all be on the home page, would they? That would be a long page.

Well, it turns out that when my host set permissions on the wp-content folder to 775, I was able to run WordPRess normally.

The problem is, that’s not a secure setup.

So I will be moving to a host that runs phpsuexec.

Thanks HandySolo for the helpful advice.

Thanks very much for your helpful comments, everyone.

Wait … I was starting to write them with this suggestion, when I realized … I don’t want to be sharing a server with a lot of OTHER hosting accounts that are vulnerable to all kinds of attacks … no, I’m afraid that if I don’t move, I will end up regretting it.

Security breaches, when they occur, are a far bigger headache than moving to a new ISP. I will tell this ISP they were great otherwise and to consider offering servers that run phpsuexec.

What a great idea. I’ll ask.

Thanks very much. To be fair, ANHosting has been great otherwise. Very responsive and competent support staff. Can usually get an email back in less than an hour no matter when you write. Very nice online tutorials and various utilities and extras. If they ran phpsuexec, I would be staying with them.

They offer it for their dedicated servers but not for shared. They say that some php scripts can’t run under phpsuexec and on a shared server, customers complain. I wonder why some other ISPs don’t seem to have the same problem. Oh, well. Next time I’ll know.

Well, I can understand that. I think I will be changing to Dreamhost because they run phpsuexec, which will be much more secure.

Too bad my current host doesn’t run it .. my domain had just resolved. Thanks very much for your input, however.

Thanks very much. I was considering Dreamhost.

Do you happen to know — if you email Dreamhost during off-hours — say 11PM — do you get a response from a resonably competent techie within an hour or so?

If I understand you correctly, the default installation does not work unless you add that folder? That seems odd, although I’m totally new to WordPress, so I defer to you on that.

I was on a different track. I just found out from my ISP that my server does not run phpsuexec and therefore unless permissions re set higher thaan 755 for the wp-content folder (775 at minimum), WordPress will not work.

Are you sure that WordPRess is unable to create the uploads folder itself, assuming it has the necessary server permissions?

I’m going to test setting the permissions higher and see if WP can create the folder.

Thanks for the input.

Thunderlove,

Thanks for the thoughtful and detailed explanation.

The techies at my Host are trying to help, but I’m a new customer and don’t want to stay at this host and set WordPRess up there if it’s not secure.

I asked my host if they ran phpsuexec. Here’s what they said:

“We don’t run phpsuexec but php is running under apache user and that is why it cannot create files in folders owned by you and chmodded to 755. Hope this helps.”

“I can set the folder group to “nobody” and permissions to 775. It will allows apache to write to the folder and it’s more secure then 777 Please let me know if it’s ok for you.”

So, is this secure or not? A WordPress user called podz said that site5 hosting runs phpsuexec but I don’t know whether that is for shared hosting or not and their sales team is not in until tomorrow. Also, I saw no mention of Fantastico auto-install in the Site5 hosting packages. I would prefer to have WordPress installed if possible. But maybe better hosts don’t provide Fantastico auto-install and expect you to know how to install it yourself? Just wondering. Thanks for your advice.

Specifically, do you know of a good ISP for shared hosting on servers that run phpsuexec — ideally, that also offer WordPress auto-install?

Thanks!

And the only plugin is akismet.

I may not be understanding you. I do not HAVE a directory called /wp-content/uploads/

My default, auto-installed, brand-new 2.0.1 installation has a /wp-content directory and under it are

wp-content/themes/
wp-content/plugins/

There is no /wp-content/uploads/

According to this source, it should be 755 or lower:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/64707?replies=7

OOPS!!!!!

CORRECTION!!!

BIG TYPO!!!!

I meant 755 — NOT 777!

Sorry for the mistake.