Failed upgrade to 2.9.2

do you normally have 2 wordpress folders or did you accidentally upload the entire worpress folder inside the other wordpress folder instead of just the files/folders inside the zip wordpress folder?

Hi
I didn’t have the 2 wordpress folders on purpose. So I guess I wrongly uploaded one WP folder into another WP folder. Does that sound like my problem?

Does that sound like my problem?

yes it does

OK I’ll have another go. Thanks for the speedy response.
Steve

Hi

I’ve justhad a check on how my current set up looks on the remote server.
Here’s how it’s set up at the moment. This set up work OK using 2.7.1.
Are you saying that I need to get rid of the WP folder within another WP folder for my upgrade to work correctly?

– /
– logs
– WordPress
– wordpress
– wp-admin
– wp-content
– wp-includes

Steve

I’m assuming you mean it looks like this:

- /
- /logs
- /Wordpress
      - wordpress
           - wp-admin
           - wp-content
           - wp-includes

Which, yeah, that should be fine, but you’ll be accessing WP from:

https://domain.com/Wordpress/wordpress

Yes that is the layout I currently have.
I tried to upgrade to 2.9.2 using this layout and I got the list of errors listed above. Samboll said that I was using 2 wordpress folders and that was what was causing my problem.
I don’t now understand what you are saying. Sorry but I am very much a newcomer to this.

Having WordPress in a subfolder shouldn’t make a whit of difference.

The error you’re getting basically says ‘I can’t find /homepages/4/d278247900/htdocs/Wordpress/wordpress/wp-settings.php so I can’t process your request.’

In your WordPress/wordpress/ folder, do you have a wp-settings.php file?

I’m just trying to upgrade again now.
I’ve deleted the wp-admin and wp-includes folders and replaced them with the 2.9.2 folders in the same place.

I just clicked on my Dashboard and get the same errors as above.

I do have a wp-settings.php file in my WordPress/wordpress folder.

I haven’t done anything with the wp-content uploads yet.

Also, I do appear to have the WordPress/wordpress/wp-includes/l10n.php file too which is mentioned in the ‘fatal error’

I don’t know whether this is relevant but I don’t have:

WordPress/wordpress/wp-includes/streams.php

or

WordPress/wordpress/wp-includes/gettext.php

Further to the above…

I uploaded the WordPress/wordpress/wp-includes/streams.php and WordPress/wordpress/wp-includes/gettext.php files from my 2.7.1 back-up files.

I cleared my cache and now I just get:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: is_admin() in /homepages/4/d278247900/htdocs/Wordpress/wordpress/wp-includes/vars.php on line 16

I do have a WordPress/wordpress/wp-includes/vars.php file

I’d start over. If your blog was originally at site.com/wordpress (or WordPress capitalized, for some reason), then that is where the 2.9.2 files should go — not in site.com/Wordpress/wordpress.

Delete the second wordpress folder (/Wordpress/wordpress), then open the wordpress folder on your computer and upload everything that’s in it (all the files and folders) into the WordPress directory … that is, don’t upload the /wordpress folder into /Wordpress so that you end up with /Wordpress/wordpress again.

Then try to run the upgrade.