Enabling Sending Referrers.

macmanx, here i have two computers, one with Linux and other with xp, and several browsers. All the time I go to the error “Sorry, you need to enable sending referrers, for this feature to work.”if attempt to activate.

Sounds like it’s probably a server issue then. That test blog here is on Apache 2 with PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1. Some of the other blogs I host are under IIS with PHP4 and MySQL 4.0 (I was young and stupid, what can I say – besides, WP1.2 doesn’t like PHP5, and I don’t like forcing PHP4 to cooperate with MySQL 4.1).

OK, last steps before you call your hosts and find out why this happens:

Route 1
——–
1) backup your WordPress installation to your hard drive
2) delete the /wp-admin and /wp-includes folders
3) in the root folder, delete the wp-settings.php file
4) upload all those files/folders from an original WordPress installation archive (use the same version that was there before)
5) test

Route 2
——–
(only for extreme rebuilding)

1) backup your WordPress installation to your hard drive
2) backup your database
3) delete EVERYTHING in your wordpress folder except /wp-config.php
4) upload WordPress from the original files available on the site here, preferably the same version you were using before
5) test it

Route 3
——–
(because sometimes you just need a fresh database)

1) backup WordPress and your database
2) if possible, create a brand-new database, and upload WordPress to a brand-new folder
2a) if not, then delete both completely, then create a new database and new WordPress folder
3) upload and install WordPress
4) test

Good luck ??

I’m browsing my MySQL database under wp_options, looks to me that the first option “siteurl” is “http:” and not my site URL.

I just tried setting it to the proper url (https://ihavebeenfloated.org) and even though the config panel says it was saved, it was not, it’s back at “http:”

I set it manually by editing the MySQL myself to ‘https://ihavebeenfloated.org’

Refreshed WP, had me re-log in… and checked the MySQL, and the option is back to being ‘http:’

Who wants to bet me twenty bucks that this is the problem?

Edit: I’m not clear if there is a way to prevent WP from modifying a MySQL option from within PHPMyAdmin, if there is, I would like to test it, could someone tell me if there is? I bet this is the problem, WP is thinking my site URL is wrong and wont let me fix it.

Jose: Can you go into your options and see what WP is saying your ‘Site URL’ is? It’s on the initial options page.

Amiantos, you have a very bad habit of adding to (editing) your posts while people are writing replies, try writing a new post instead. Then what you want to say will be noticed.

Jose, here’s a tutorial on how to backup your database:
https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/backup/

That sounds like it might be. I was sitting here trying to think of a way you could safely delete all the records in that table and have them reset to the defaults….

Of course, now I realize I could just dump the SQL from that test database for you ??

But if it’s being reset each time, that might not do much…

Amiantos, that’s been reported before, but not connected to Sending Referrers. I’ll look for the report. Welcome to the wonderful world of Nightly Builds.

In the wp_options table, set both home and siteurl are identical, and that fileupload_realpath is accurate.

Sorry, I figured it was unnecessary waste to keep making new posts, I’ll stop that now. Also, I was hoping that would be the problem. ;(

I’m assuming then that WP doesn’t use that option to check that the URL of your referral isn’t the URL in the options?

siteurl is wrong, at ‘http:’ but home is correct at ‘https://ihavebeenfloated.org’ fileupload_realpath is accurate.

rrr, read the original post wrong. no matter what I set siteurl to, it reverts.

and it keeps resetting siteurl to “http:” instead of keeping the real URL?

make the change again, but query the table afterwards (before going back into WP) to make sure the new value is actually in there…

If it returns to http:, check wp-config.php. If that gives you nothing useful, upgrade to the latest Nightly Build. I believe the http: problem has been fixed.

Amiantos, you’re using PHPMyAdmin to admin your database, yes? Or something like it? Or are you using a command-line tool or application?

If you’re using phpmyadmin, follow this tutorial:
https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/

I’m using PHPMyAdmin.

I just upgraded to the latest nightly, still get the siteurl resetting problem. Even after manually altering the values according to that guide (which I managed to figure out myself earlier, rather proud of myself for that), WP has me re-log in when I load it, and then it resets the value still.

2005-01-11

Amiantos, my home, siteurl and fileupload_realpath is accurate.