1.5 upgrade, no CSS, even default themes

  • cdkrall

    (@cdkrall)


    20 years ago

    I upgraded by backing up my DB, uploading 1.5 to www/, renaming my old “wordpress” folder “wordpress 1.3”, then renaming the “wordpress 1.5” folder to “wordpress”. Uploaded themes, plugins, and wp-config from my backed up 1.3 folder, then browsed to my site.

    Everything works fine, other than there is no theming going on, just displayed as plaintext. Tried switching themes, tried both included themes, still plain-jane.

    Any ideas?

    I didn’t change any files in the 1.5 folder, just added some of my old stuff to wp-content and some 1.5 themes.

    When I go to /wordpress/wp-admin/install.php, it says WP is already installed, which is true enough.

    The 1.3 build I was using was downloaded shortly before the 1.5 builds appeared in CVS.

    I tried the site in several browsers to make sure it wasn’t a cache issue.

    Site is https://krall.org/

    Thanks for any help.

    I tried the codex, it seems to be down right now.

    Otherwise, I am favorably impressed by 1.5, looking forward to using it.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Did you remember to run /wp-admin/upgrade.php ?

    Thread Starter cdkrall

    (@cdkrall)

    Solved the issue by uploading wp-layout.css from the 1.3 install. Now other themes are selectable as well.

    Why, I dunno.

    Again, 1.5 is great stuff. I’m gloating over my decision to switch from MT last year….&^)

    Thread Starter cdkrall

    (@cdkrall)

    Oops, not solved after all.

    Turns out that using an external index.php with the require line edited no longer works for me.

    That is, if I use an external index.php file from long ago I get either no theme or only the old default one if I upload wp-layout.css to the wordpress directory.

    If I try modifying the more recent index.php files to call for ./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php, I get an error, which reads:

    Warning: main(./wp-blog-header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/myusername/www/index.php on line 4

    Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘./wp-blog-header.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/share/pear:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/myusername/www/index.php on line 4

    Editing to try different expressions of the filepath get the same result. For instance the full filepath returns the same result.

    Anyone tell me how to use an external (in www/) index.php file to go to my www/wordpress install?

    Thread Starter cdkrall

    (@cdkrall)

    For now I’m using an index.html redirect, which causes a delay in loading, but works.

    macmanx: I did run the update file.

    szathmar

    (@szathmar)

    cdkrall: any updates? I am having the same problem you describe – just plain text, though the themes seem to be uploaded to my site. I can select them in the admin panels, but no change to the plain text on the site:

    https://www.mmkg.org/blog

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    Szathmar, your stylesheet is NOT a stylesheet: it has a lot of html tags in it! I guess you should clean it up…

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