mzimmers

Well, it appears that I’ve taken a step backwards. My fooling around with the settings page have made the control panel inaccessible to me. What’s the quickest way to restore this? I have access to phpMyAdmin, and can directly enter the path in there…if I only knew what the right format of the path is.

Edit:

The error message I’m getting is:

The requested URL /wordpress/index.php was not found on this server.

and again, the url in my database is:

https://localhost:8888/Volumes/1_TB_HD/Users/mzimmers/ScopedIn/wordpress/

Ibullock: in response to your disappearing reply, I checked the DB, and it matches what’s in my settings page. The pathname I provide for the WordPress Address (URL) and the Site Address is:

https://localhost:8888:Volumes/1_TB_HD/Users/mzimmers/ScopedIn/wordpress/

I’ve tried it with, and without the final backslash.

Now, 8888 is the port to Apache; that’s as it should be, right?

I’m continuing to make progress. I can now get to the admin area of my local installation. I’d like to change the Site Address setting, but I don’t seem able to leave it blank. (I thought you could do this in earlier versions.)

What is the proper address format to use here? I’ve tried various things, and they either weren’t accepted by the page, or resulted in a 404 error.

The pathname to the WP installation (I think) is:

https://localhost:8888/Volumes/1_TB_HD/Users/mzimmers/ScopedIn/wordpress

Thanks.

Aha! The problem was that there was indeed a password for the SQL account. (Verified by the MAMP start page.) Apparently, I now get into the database, because I no longer have an error message. But, my site is almost totally unformatted. Now I wonder if the php is getting properly processed.

Still, it’s progress.

ib: I don’t know why, but for some reason, some of your posts aren’t displaying for me. I get the email notification, but that’s it.

In answer to your question:

Do you have the WordPress install in the root of your localhost?

I changed the document root to my WP install. Maybe that was the wrong way to do it, but since MAMP gives you the option of changing your document root, I figured I’d try it. Do you think I should move it under htdocs instead?

Thanks, ibullock. I did that, and the results are the same. If I understand your suggestions, I can’t do the latter until I can at least log in.

I used phpMyAdmin to change the URL for the database, so I don’t know what else to try now.

OK, I’ve made a backup of my online DB, downloaded it, and imported it into a new local DB. (The import appears to have been successful.)

I followed the directions in the link above as best I could, but I didn’t get very far. When I go to my localhost:8888, I get an error:

Error establishing a database connection

What might I be doing wrong?

We have child themes now? Excellent! I should probably try to stay abreast of WP developments a bit more.

I don’t suppose that by chance we also have a way for me to experiment with a new theme on my system, while keeping it the same for everyone else?

Sure does. Thanks, Esmi.

Wow…now, THAT is slick. When did this feature become available?

Minor update: I’ve experimented with different themes and gotten the same results, so it’s not theme-specific. Accordingly, I’ve removed the “zenlite” tag from this thread.

Hi, Steffen –

Just to be sure I made myself clear, I do want an image (not text) to appear when I hover over (or click on) a cell in my table.

I also only want it to work on selected items, not globally across my site.

Given this, I’m not sure tooltips are the right approach.

Ahhhh…!

Initial observation is that it’s much faster. I’ll let it sit and try again in the AM (it seems worst when it’s been sitting for awhile).

Thanks, James. That stuff (one of them, at least) should be bundled with the core software.

OK, thanks, James. I just got off the phone with my hosting provider. He thinks the problem is in some database inefficiencies. Does WP have any tools yet to clean out a DB? I notice that my posts table keeps records of changes to posts/Pages; that can’t be helping performance. What can be done to “clean out” the DB?

Thanks.

Wow…it turns out it was a *commented out* call in my theme. Deleting the lines altogether eliminated the problem.

So…I’m not sure I’m clear on this whole preview/deploy thing. How do I know it’s actually turned on?