michaelvsprague

Downgrading MAMP to 2.x worked. Not sure why, but I was able to open up PHPmyAdmin and change the URL, etc. so that I can now admin it all and, in theory, edit the PHP/HTML/etc. to tweak the site.

But first, I am updating to WP 3.9…

Yes. I have posted there. My thought was perhaps someone here is doing what I am trying to do, and might have knowledge about this.

So, thanks.

Now I have downgraded to MAMP 2.x and, when I go to the wp-admin/install file, it tells me ” To reinstall please clear your old database tables first”

Which I do not know how to do.

Anyone want to make a recommendation?

Thanks for the response. I have had Akismet installed since day one, so I haven’t had a lot of spam messages to clean up.

After I posted here, I installed a captcha utility, and the new registrations halted for a short while. They resumed, after some time, but are not coming as fast and furious as they had for a while.

This seems like a good protection mechanism, though. Akismet to hold spam, captcha to reduce the number of bot registrations.

It’s only a matter of time before there is captcha defeating tech out there, so keep your ears open and your eyes peeled. We can’t keep ahead of bad actors on the internet, but if we stay even we can make it time-consuming enough that they will, on occasion, lose interest in us.

Success is sometimes all about modest expectations.

Thanks, Scott.

I am not having a problem with too many comments, and I do not require registration to comment, anyway. I do not believe I have ever had the Users must be registered and logged in box checked. It certainly isn’t atm.

I have had Akismet on my site since day one, but I will look into a mechanism like re-captcha. Thanks for the recommend, and the link.

As for deleting all the registered users, why exactly?

Thanks again for your time and help.

mvs

I called my hosting provider, who reset the permissions on the .htaccess file, which allowed me acccess. I deleted all the files and the directory, recreated the directory, and uploaded all the files again.

The update me message is now gone.

Now I am back in. I wish I knew more about this stuff.

I am also unable to log in again.

It’s very unlikely that PHP is suddenly not running on my server at pair.com. According to the online documentation, the version currently running on new servers is PHP 5.2.13 and phpMyAdmin is running and saying that my database is available.

I have been changing the permissions on this .htaccess file and testing this half the day now. I finally deleted the .htaccess file, and it did not improve or degrade performance at all. After reading you message, I recreated the .htaccess file (/mysite/blog/.htaccess) and set permissions to 644. Now I am not able to log out.

I get:

You don’t have permission to access /blog/wp-login.php on this server.

My brain hurts.

text like this

‘ . __(‘Aside from the default theme included with your WordPress installation, themes are designed and developed by third parties.’) . ‘

‘; $help .= ‘

‘ . __(‘You can see your active theme at the top of the screen. Below are the other themes you have installed that are not currently in use. You can see what your site would look like with one of these themes by clicking the Preview link. To change themes, click the Activate link.’) . ‘

is showing up more and more now.

Does anyone here know what the meaning or significance might be?

given that my /blog/ directory is in the middle of my web site, accessible to anyone, should my .htaccess file permissions be “-rw-r–r– (644)” or something else?

I clicked on the “please attempt the update again now” link at the top of the page where it said “An automated WordPress update has failed to complete – please attempt the update again now
” in the admin area.

The page changed to say that my WP is up to date, that I have the latest version of wordpress, that if I need to reinstall version 3.0 I can do so automatically, that my plug ins and themes are up to date, but that sentence with the embedded link at the top of the page is still there, the one that says “An automated WordPress update has failed to complete – please attempt the update again now
“

Thinking I probably needed to log out and in again due to years of conditioning applied by various IT departments and cs reps during lengthy phone calls, I tried logging out and back in again. After logging out my screen filled with lots of what I presume is code, starting with:

element. * @param string $message Optional. Message to display in header. * @param WP_Error $wp_error Optional. WordPress Error Object */ function login_header($title = ‘Log In’, $message = ”, $wp_error = ”) { global $error, $is_iphone, $interim_login, $current_site; // Don’t index any of these forms add_filter( ‘pre_option_blog_public’, ‘__return_zero’ ); add_action( ‘login_head’, ‘noin…”

and continuing. This made no sense to me, and so I typed in the path to my web pages’ admin area, which came up immediately with no authentication required or requested.

My old friend “An automated WordPress update has failed to complete – please attempt the update again now” remains present at the pages top, just under the page title bar.

This is frustrating.

ok, so I created the file in my /blog/ directory and the only info in it is “AddType x-mapp-php5 .php”

I will now try again.

ok. I installed wp in a subdirectory. Having looked for a file like that, I find none.

No such file as .htaccess in my home or web folders, or in my /blog/ folder.

I looked with Filezilla and using pair.com’s web based file manager.

Could this be part of my problem?

It is hanging each time I try to install or update a theme or plug in.

The two themes that I had from the previous version are gone, but the admin area seems to at least be available, so this is a great improvement.

Still, I am having some difficulty making this over in a way that makes me happy.

So, when I have finished deleting, then replacing, all the WP files, successfully logged in to the wp-admin panel, and then clicked on the link to “attempt the update again now” link at the top of page where it said “An automated WordPress update has failed to complete – please attempt the update again” …

How much time to I give it before I presume that it has broken again?

esmi,

thank you. I hope to have this fixed soon now.