Unable to Edit, nothing happens when click Edit

  • wpedForTime

    (@wordpressedfortime)


    10 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    I have now been Googling this for 2 days and I’m stuck. I have never set up a web server before or used a Linux OS so I was very proud for getting to the point of having installed my virtual machine, Ubuntu, Apache, PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin and WordPress. I was so happy to start customising themes and then I tried to edit my first post and nothing happened.

    There are no errors and here’s what I have tried so far:

    – there seems to be a popular workaround for adding define(‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false); to the wp-config.php file – I have done this and it made no difference
    – I have removed WordPress, dropped all my WordPress database’s tables and then reinstalled WordPress and uploaded all files etc. from scratch

    Still, nothing happens when I click on Edit. I would really appreciate any help and advice and please keep in mind that I am a novice so all instructions will need to be spelled out as I’m unfamiliar with Terminal commands.

    Many thanks

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  • Thread Starter wpedForTime

    (@wordpressedfortime)

    I fixed it! Can’t believe it works!

    Here’s what I ended up doing:

    I deleted the WordPress folder from the root directory and dropped the entire database from MySQL (using phpMyAdmin). I deleted all MySQL database users bar root and system ones etc. and then I deleted all files in /var/www/html/ – I did this through the GUI because I feel more comfortable with the GUI. I accessed the /var/ folder by typing in var in search which brought up the tmp folder. After opening the tmp folder, I was able to click on var in the ‘address bar’. Anyway, I then created a brand new SQL database using phpMyAdmin and a brand new user (new names). I then installed WordPress again but this time using instructions from the following website: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-wordpress-on-ubuntu-14-04 – I followed everything up until I had entered completely new account information at the 5-minute install page. When I logged in I was able to EDIT from within WordPress instead of having to edit the MySQL database tables directly.

    I did start receiving an ftp prompt though in order for WordPress to communicate with me – likely due to the permissions on the var/www/html folder? Not sure but it seems more secure and I won’t often need to install themes etc.

    I installed the ftp server following this guide: https://www.yourownlinux.com/2013/10/install-create-configure-ftp-server-in-linux.html

    I do have to enter my ubuntu username and password now for installing things but like I said, that seems secure and not too much of a hassle so I kind of prefer it.

    Thread Starter wpedForTime

    (@wordpressedfortime)

    I spoke too soon.

    I can edit whatever was set up automatically but no other themes. Seems permissions related but even though I have amended the permissions on the wp-content folder a thousand different ways and amended wp-config to include direct installation method, nothing has worked. I think I will re-do everything again but this time ignore the permissions set up on the URL posted earlier.

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