Issues with fresh install

  • I have an older 2003 server that I had been running an old Post Nuke site on WAMP. The server also runs Exchange on IIS. Appache was bound to port 80 and I gave IIS ports 81/443. My hand has been forces to make Active Sync work (requires port 80) so…

    I scrapped the WAMP setup. Install a clean MySQL 5 and have tried with PHP 5.2 and 5.3 The plan is to build a new default site using WordPress.

    PHP seems to be working fine in IIS and WordPress installed with out any problem. I have a vanilla install, no plugins yet.

    The site looks like it is mostly working. I can add pages and posts but the text is white on white so I cannot see what I an typing. The visual tab shows html code and nothing happens when I click the html tab.

    Also nothing happens when I click on the Screen options or help button at the top of the page.

    I have spent a few hours trolling looking for possible causes. Premalinks and rewrites seem to be working. Magic Quotes is off.

    I would normally set it up on a linux host, and have set that up many times. In this case I am stuck with IIS.

    I am not even sure how to troubleshoot the problem.

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  • You can try adding the following line to your wp-config file:
    define('CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS',false);

    That will stop WordPress from concatenating js and css files – this will resolve the problem if there is a script error from the concatenation.

    Thread Starter goedls

    (@goedls)

    Thanks RB but that did not resolve anything. Any other Ideas? I saw a few posts about editing the CSS but wont those changes get overwritten during an update. Also the same files work fine on pretty much every other server so I think is is a server configuration problem not in the WP files or code itself.

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    Just as an experiment (you do have a backup of wp-config.php right?) try adding these as well to see if it makes a difference.

    define('CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS', false); disables compression and concatenation of scripts and CSS,
define('COMPRESS_SCRIPTS', false); disables compression of scripts,
define('COMPRESS_CSS', false); disables compression of CSS,

    It’s a shot in the dark but may help identify where/what is broken.

    Edit: Cleaned up the code…

    Thread Starter goedls

    (@goedls)

    No luck there either. I also noticed that when I click the screen options the URL changes to xxx.xxx.xxx/wp-admin/post.php?post=10&action=edit#screen-options-wrap but nothing changes on the displayed page and I never see any errors anywhere. The IIS logs are clean.

    Thread Starter goedls

    (@goedls)

    Maybe it is something in WP. I created a new mysql database and stood up a different CMS and it is working flawlessly. TinyMCE displays and functions correctly. I really would prefer to use wordpress but I have limited time to sort it our.

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