DB hosed by hosting provider.

  • I think that my provider hosed my db, the tables are out of sync or something. They tried to move my mysql db to another host and apparently did something wrong. There have been no changes to my site in the recent past, I am running the latest version of WP. These are the symptoms, if someone could point me in the right direction:

    1) When I login as admin, I get the dashboard, but no admin options, if I select anything I receive the message about insufficient privileges to access the page.

    2) It appears that my theme is being accessed, the correct index.php is being utilized from the correct theme subdirectory.

    3) The styles.css file from the correct theme subdirectory is NOT being used. The HTML shows that the default styles.css is being loaded.

    4) Plugins are not being loaded. Moving plugins out of the plugin subdirectory does not appear to change the behavior.

    Help?

    Thanks, Len

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  • Thread Starter ljhardy

    (@ljhardy)

    Well, it’s not the database. I dumped the database and restored it on my local host. Everything works fine, theme, css, admin panel, everything is fine.

    Any ideas on what else could be wrong?

    Thread Starter ljhardy

    (@ljhardy)

    One more piece of information, I installed a fresh copy of WP with new tables (wp2_) on my hosting provider and I get the same error with Insufficient Permissions.

    What could they have changed to cause this?

    at a guess, have them (or you) check your MySQL user permissions for the database (the user/password that’s specified in wp-config.php).

    More on that here.

    Thread Starter ljhardy

    (@ljhardy)

    Nope, it’s not the mysql password, the posts come up on the default WP page, the the DB is being read correctly.

    I continue to get “Insufficient Permissions” when I access any option in the Dashboard, and all Admin options are missing.

    Right. I wasn’t too worried about the password. I’m more curious if your MySQL user has the proper permissions (thus the link I provided).

    Thread Starter ljhardy

    (@ljhardy)

    Handysolo –

    Doesn’t this message:

    “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”

    come from WordPress?

    I’ve seen a few posts about this and tried some of the suggestions with no luck. The symptoms are that when I logon as Admin, instead of going to the Dashboard it tries to go directly to Profile, and I get the above message. If I go directly to the wp-admin URL I do get the dashboard, but none of the Admin options.

    Thanks, Len

    “”You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.””

    Typically that comes from file permissions or mod_security. Perhaps accompnied with a 403/406 in the logs.

    mod_sec rulesets etc. are starting to be a major PITA with some hosts.

    In fact, due to same, I’m moving from my long-term host to someone else the end of this month….

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