upgrade and installation problems

  • Resolved bobtongue

    (@bobtongue)


    16 years, 5 months ago

    I am at a loss. I have been running wordpress flawlessly for about three years now with no problem. Lately when I upgraded my installation I notived that my plugins were not activated. When I tried to activate them, i was told that they were activated but they were still listed as unactivated. After much searching and not finding a solution I tried a couple of other things. I installed a widget too see if that was working and after installation, the board no longer functioned. I had to edit a few lines out of the widgets.php file. They were:
    if ( empty($wp_registered_sidebars[$index]) || !array_key_exists($index, $sidebars_widgets)

    and:

    unset($sidebars_widgets[‘array_version’]);

    I am not php savvy, but this at least allowed me to get the board back to a “readable” state.

    My next thought was to try a “clean” install in a different virtual domain.
    I created a new database (empty) and installed wordpress fresh into my personal domain. After install I ran wp-admin/install.php and it seemed to go fine. It presented me with my password and when I went to log in I got this error:

    Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/bobtongue.com/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/capabilities.php on line 31

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/bobtongue.com/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/capabilities.php:31) in /var/www/bobtongue.com/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 595

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/bobtongue.com/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/capabilities.php:31) in /var/www/bobtongue.com/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 596

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/bobtongue.com/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/capabilities.php:31) in /var/www/bobtongue.com/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 597

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/bobtongue.com/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/capabilities.php:31) in /var/www/bobtongue.com/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 770

    I have searched in vain for a solution. I could not find any broken lines in my user_roles database entry and magic quotes in all flavors is turned off via the php.ini file. I have verified this. I am at a loss. Any help would be appreciated. I am running wordpress 2.6.2 on gentoo linux 2.6 kernel php version 5.2.6-r7 and apache 2.2.9-r1.

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  • Thread Starter bobtongue

    (@bobtongue)

    I found the error after exhaustive search for answers. Too many articles explaining that magic quotes needs to be turned off. This is only true for magic_quotes_runtime. I had all magic quotes turned off. Finally found and article that explained this. I had to change to
    magic_quotes_gpc = On
    magic_quotes_runtime = Off
    magic_quotes_sybase = On
    It is important to note that these settings need to be in place before wordpress creates the database structure. If they are set wrong when the database is created it will be corrupt. Unfortunately I figured this out after the existing database was upgraded. Another lesson learned, back up the database before upgrades. I was able to find most corrupted entries and delete them (wordpress recreates them) and so got out of it. There should be a warning in the installation instructions that these settings need to be set BEFORE installation. It would save a lot of heartache in the future.

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