berkeleyb2

thank you for looking at this – I’ll keep going…

the only file I edited outside of the theme files is the config… I just replaced every other file in the 1.5.1.3 update, so I know this is true. btw- I never found anything called .htaccess (or close to that)

The admin pleads ignorance.

here is the config
—
<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘admin’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘psswd_not’); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘127.0.0.1:4004’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value. Yes, this is changed.

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple blogs in a single database.
$table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // example: ‘wp_’ or ‘b2’ or ‘mylogin_’

// Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the
// chosen language must be installed to wp-includes/languages.
// For example, install de.mo to wp-includes/languages and set WPLANG to ‘de’
// to enable German language support.
define (‘WPLANG’, ”);

/* Stop editing */

define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__).’/’);
require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-settings.php’);
?>

if I am supplying the same login to the security setting in Ecto, as the one I use to be me, the owner, why would the world premission matter?

btw- the permissions are already set to -rwxr–r–

the wordpress folder is drwxr–r-x

still fails, Forbidden 403

to prove this point, I changed xmlrpc.php permissions to -rwxrw-rwx

still fails, Forbidden 403

?

ok, my bad. The feed: part was not supplied by bloginfo(), it was the static text. I sent a URL/URI in the form of

feed:https://xxx to RSSValidator, and it worked. SO I was confused. I took _out_ the static feed:, and it worked again. hmmm.. I don’t want to know the details about this, but it is necessary to add an RSS button… What’s the story here?