tonyhir

3.1.3

The only tick is for ‘Comment author must have a previously approved comment’. But I have commented umpteen times…

My ISP treats this as a WordPress problem. Has noone any solutions??

What do you mean by ‘folder ownership’ please?

It’s there now, in the wordpress folder.

Thanks for your help.

With the kind help of Nik Roberts, my site is now back and running with the default theme. I am not quite sure how it all happened; but I still need to know whether to (re)create or modify .htaccess as described above. I still cannot see .htaccess anywhere on the site!

I should have mentioned that the following instructions appeared when I last edited the Permalinks:-

You should update your .htaccess now.
If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Should .htaccess contain these lines?

Thank you. Steps taken so far:-

2. I have renamed the theme directory via FTP.

3. I have also re-saved the Permalink structure. No manual instructions appeared.

The result is that the site is completely blank.

FTP indicates that there is no .htaccess file in the httpdocs folder, the one immediately above the wordpress folder. Will it help to upload one from my computer: if so should it be blank or what should it contain?

1) I deactivated all plugins before the upgrade and reactivated them afterwards without incident.

Excuse my ignorance on the following items:-

2) How do I switch to the default theme? See 4).

3) I don’t really understand Permalinks or the .htaccess file. .htaccess should be in the folder httpdocs, but in my FTP programme (Directory Opus) I can only see .htpasswda3, which is empty. Does this mean that .htaccess is missing? If so do I need to upload it, and what should it contain?

4) I can no longer log in as administrator. “Error establishing a database connection”. This may be a temporary glitch, in which case I shall have another go in the morning.

It is the same in 2.9.2. But I have ceased to read the message.

Why? If you search the forums, you will see that it an oft-repeated fact.

Noted. Please amend the help then.

Now resolved with the latest upgrade. Thanks to those concerned.

Where is this stated in the Help, please?

Plugins seem to be working again, thank the Lord.

With help from Nik Roberts, I have been able to restore the Link dialogue box by installing the

TinyMCE Advanced

plugin. This also brings the ‘insert embedded media’ dialogue box to life, but not the box for the ‘insert special character’. The plot thickens.

I now have a new problem: nearly every installed plugin has been deactivated on the grounds that it does not have a valid header. I am trying to find out what is going on.