No input file specified

  • Hi, my problem is that I am getting “No input file specified” for everything I try to view, straight after doing an ‘import from Blogger’ where I seemed to have imported old posts from an oldish weblog.

    (I had moved from version 1.5 yesterday to version 2.0 to version 2.01 — Confession: I had forgot to first ftp to my site and empty the Cache in Wp-contents; I did that later on.)

    At first, in admin mode, I could see the imported posts listed neatly in the archives section (by month). I began to delete the blank files, but then gradually other pages including the admin pages like Manage, and Write, began delivering “No input file specified”.

    Yes I quickly backed up, logged in and emptied the cache, but still now, if I view the site as if I were a visitor, I get a plain vanilla site with no template…

    Before I take another step could someone please put me right? Thanks.

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  • Thread Starter annieh

    (@annieh)

    A success story:

    — I had successfully upgraded to 2.0.1 and had gone wrong when importing older Blogger posts. Blank pages, or No input file specified, or server error messages …

    Having battled with this problem for days and having had no response to my posts to this forum, I finally gave up.

    Then today, having read random posts here, I

    a) created a very small .htaccess file,
    b) tired different browsers (FIrefox, Mozilla, Safari)
    c) found that if I pressed refresh twice, I could see my admin pages (without any template but at least I knew something was alive … )

    I backed up the databases again, and deleted via FTP all the WORDPRESS files off the server. And I reinstalled WORDPRESS one final time.

    Already installed, I was told.
    I might add I used SAFARI instead of Firefox 1.5 at this point, refreshing the login screen from one of the screens still open on the desktop

    And voila, there was everything but I could only see it after logging in with a very old admin password from the 1.5 install!

    Some things I am not going to do this time round:
    * fiddle with permalinks
    * fiddle with importing blogger posts

    And I am going to back up and back up …

    I do hope this helps someone technical to sort out things with 2.x because from reading these forums I would say there is some backend work to do perhaps, though I realise you probably have a critical mass of users and not enough technies at hand or kind enough to offer their support.

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