stecyk

Thank you Rolf for responding to my question. ??

I have InnoDB as well. Not being a technical person, can I please ask what InnoDB is? Is it non-standard for WordPress installations?

Sometimes servers don’t cooperate as well as we would like.

At least now, you know a bit more about how to troubleshoot this problem again in the future.

I am glad you back up again and running.

Thank you. I will follow-up.

I hope that when WP 4 is released, I don’t have the same issue.

Thank you for replying.

The plugins that I am using are as follows:

• Akismet
• Jetpack by WordPress.com
• VaultPress
• Wordfence Security

I am also using Thesis 2.1 theme.

I am not using Cloudflare.

Fortunately, my blog seems to be functioning fine. It’s just during the installation process I was greeted by an abrupt and unfortunate error message.

Previous upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1 worked fine.

I don’t want to move my blog from its blog directory to the root directory, which is what your link suggests. As far as I know, my settings are correct. However, I suspect that there’s a glitch in the installation process.

Moreover, my about.php file is correct for the new version 3.8.2. So it knew where to install the latest version of the file (yes, it was changed with 3.8.2), but didn’t know where to call it at the end of the process.

I think there’s a bug.

I don’t use FileZilla, but I don’t think that matters. As long as you have an FTP program or some other means to access your files on the server, you should be good to go. Some hosts allow you to access your files through your account control center or panel.

How did you install your software? I am assuming you used some method to upload your files to the server? Whatever method you used, use the same method to browse your files on the server.

Once you find your way to your files, you want to find your blog’s root folder and look for the file wp-config.php. Your blog’s root folder is likely one of the two following:

www . yoursite . com
or
www. yourite . com / blog/

My blog follows the second pattern. So on my host’s server, I find a directory called ‘public_html’ and then beneath that directory is my ‘blog’ directory. Inside my blog directory is the configuration file ‘wp-config.php’. That’s the file that WordPress uses to access your database.

You want to have your host confirm that the database settings are correct. Assuming that the settings are correct, then is the database server working? If the settings are incorrect, then you need to change them.

If you want to contact me offline, my email is just my name beside my post and gmail.

You should be able to narrow down your issue regarding your database settings without too much difficulty.

Use an FTP program to examine your wp-config.php. Copy the contents or simply download the file to your computer. Then, check with your host to see if the settings for your database are correct.

Occasionally, my site won’t load and it’s because a database server is not functioning properly. So it might be as simple as your host fixing its database server.

Your first step should be to verify that your settings are correct and that the database server is functioning.