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Jon Cave – exactly right, you’re the man. I changed perms on all directories to 777 leading down the path to the ‘/07’ inside the uploads directory, tried the importer again… bam. Done. All the xml’s data is here offline. Now I’ll try further live site replication with some plugins, etc.

And just as you said, longhand, it worked. I had already manually created the public_html/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07 path, I just had to give all of it 777s (which I’ve left alone ‘cos it’s just me working here).

Thank you both for reading and responding to the thread – it has saved a lot of further teeth-gnashing…

I’ll call this ‘solved’ and hope the rest of it goes as well. ;-).

Thanks for the reply, James. I was about to do your fixes when I was given a suggestion to simply eliminate the .php from the standard login url (/wp-login.php) and try that. It worked immediately; I got in, upgraded to 3.0.4 along with several plugins. I logged out and back in to test and all appears to be working fine.

Also, the normal full login url is now working as it’s supposed to as well after doing the abbreviated login that one time.

Don’t know why this made a difference (perhaps you do), but it sure did.

Hi James — sorry for the late response to your post but I had to attend to some other things, but I’ve finally gotten the chance to get back to this issue…

I tried both of your suggestions above with no luck for either one. Renaming both the plugins and the themes directories with .hold added had no effect: I still get a completely blank page at https://mysite.com/blog/wp-login.php, with no fields or page data whatsoever. Strange. The only thing I noticed is that the public site no longer would load anything at all either, no Ten-Twenty theme – just a blank page too.

Any other ideas…?

Worst case, if I have to manually reinstall the entire blog, how would I do that safely? I have a dev version of the site locally in lampp but have never been able to get that nor its plugins to update from my linux home box (some weird linux permissions or FTP access issue I’ve not resolved as yet). And the wp-config.php would have to be adjusted as well, wouldn’t it?

I do have a reasonably current saved database download; after the new installation of WP, how would I then load that into the site?

Sorry fo the basic (and slightly off-topic) questions but as I mentioned, I’m a bit of a WP and php newbie…