thinbluesmoke

Awesome!!! Thanks for the links Steve and Luke. Looks like I should be able to prevent trouble before it starts. I appreciate it!

The thing is, none of these users with the mailcatch addresses are leaving any comments, they’re just registering and moving on. That’s what had me concerned.

Only registered users can submit comments.

OK, thanks. I was more or less wondering if anyone else has seen a trend of mailcatch registrations and if it meant anything unusual.

Ok, it looks like I’m back in business as far as the blog home page loading. I contacted my web host and they changed the URL path and my blog home page loads from the web root name; https://MySiteName.com. I have no clue where they made the change or what it was changed to but I assume it resolves to the WordPress directory.

That part of the mission is accomplished but my one and only post won’t load when clicking the link. I remember seeing a note about this is the instructions for changing the web root location. I’ll see what I can do and if I have any further issues I’ll create a new topic here at the forum.

Thanks Mark for riding this one out with me.

Ok, Before I do any further damage I think I’ll submit a support ticket to my web host to see what gives. I honestly don’t know how that URL resolves to my WordPress blog when the folder hierarchy is so convoluted. What you’re suggesting makes perfect sense to me. Thanks!

Hey, I just noticed something. There’s a .htaccess file under /webspace. It’s evidently protected because it won’t let me view or copy. I wonder if that’s got anything to do with all this???

By the way, shouldnt you be checking what’s in /webspace/httpdocs/thinbluesmoke.com/ ? That’s where WordPress is looking for the files..

That’s where I copied the index and htaccess files. Originally it was some default HTML that displayed some page the host came up with.

Did you see my screenshot? https://www.flickr.com/photos/29329161@N08/26888258846/

I’m on a shared hosting plan and I essentially “auto-installed” WordPress via a utility. I assumed that they renamed the WordPress folder to WordPress-60594 for some reason that helps them keep track of things. The hierarchy is there that you pointed out.

Here’s a screenshot; https://www.flickr.com/photos/29329161@N08/26888258846/

https://mywebsite.com/wordpress/

That was the URL to get to my WP blog via a browser.

I’m looking at the folder structure with FileZilla and it shows the path to wp-blog-header.php as; /webspace/siteapps/WordPress-60594/htdocs/wp-blog-header.php

That file is in the htdocs folder

WordPress-60594/htdocs

I actually did that initially per the instructions. I just tried it again to no avail. Then I tried the actual file path.

I get this;

Warning: require(/usr/local/pem/vhosts/121764/webspace/httpdocs/thinbluesmoke.com/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/pem/vhosts/121764/webspace/httpdocs/thinbluesmoke.com/index.php on line 17 Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required ‘/usr/local/pem/vhosts/121764/webspace/httpdocs/thinbluesmoke.com/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/libexec/php4-cgi/share/pear’) in /usr/local/pem/vhosts/121764/webspace/httpdocs/thinbluesmoke.com/index.php on line 17

I apologize, I said that I moved them. I did not. I copied them. It’s been a long day.

Yes, I performed step 2