carlosmiller

Never mind, I figured it out

Anybody?

When I click on the RSS link, I just get an option to bookmark it.

And if I click OK, nothing really happens except I wind up with a blank web page.

Guys,

I didn’t know about the rules of soliciting.

And I misinterpreted the part about leaving your email address as a way to give moderators an excuse to shut the thread down.

The way I interpreted it is that the rules were saying to go ahead and break the rules, so we’ll shut the thread down.

My email address is carlosmiller at magiccitymedia dot com

If you have not posted that information we will ask you to and when you do the thread will be closed.

Isn’t that entrapment?

resolved

Thanks for all the insightful answers.

Got it!

What the f_____ck!

What a panic this was.

I never want to go through this crap again.

I’m not even sure I succeeded with the upgrade.

But I don’t care.

I have my blog

Just in time for my morning readers.

I need a beer, but I probably should make some coffee.

I have an appointment in an hour.

thelazygeisha, you rock.

I’ve been messing with this all night and I’ve managed to get all my blog pages up except the home page.

So I know I didn’t lose it. I just need to figure out how to get my home page to work.

For example: I can’t access https://www.carlosmiller.com

But I can access https://www.carlosmiller.com/about

And https://www.carlosmiller.com/photos

And https://www.carlosmiller.com/videos

I can even access individual posts like

https://carlosmiller.com/2008/02/09/new-york-city-photographers-will-protest-sunday-against-ongoing-harassment/

But my home page?

Forget about it.

But what about my content? All my posts?

Every time I call my hosting company, they’re clueless. And they’re supposed to be one of the better ones. They’re better than Go Daddy, but that’s not saying much.

I had WordPress do it for me. The day after they did it for me, they released a goddamn new version, and I wasn’t about to try it, then they released another one, and I’ve been having issues with plugins, so I figured I need to upgrade, and these things just don’t easy for me, and I here I am.

THIS REALLY FUCKING SUCKS. GODDAMN IT.

Sorry about the rant. You’ve been a great help. I had a really good blog going and now this shit happens.

And guess what? I have a little icon labeled “fantastico” in my C-panel.

A little smiling face. What the fuck is he smiling for?

How come nobody mentioned Fantastico before this?

Why does WordPress have to make their instructions so complicated?

Thank you for your help. I feel like screaming. I live in a condo with neighbors. It’s 4:15 a.m.

Yes, I did overwrite it. Am I screwed?

I think I need to fill something out in “wp-config.php”

I was running 2.3.1 and tried to go to 2.3.3.

I don’t know what Fantastico Enabled means.

I do understand basic FTP, but I don’t have one right now because I recently switched to a Mac, and that, of course, is also a huge headache.

I use Lunar Pages hosting and they have C-Panel, which is supposed to be easy, but it really isn’t for someone who doesn’t know these things.

But I’m researching the problem on google and I’m almost sure it’s something that I need to fill out in wp.config.php

That link is not going to help me now that I screwed.

I tried making sense of it beforehand and obviously, I couldn’t do it.

This crap doesn’t come easy to me. All this talk about
MySQL and Shell Access and shit like that might as well be Chinese.

Fuck.

I thought I made a back up and it looks I didn’t.

I don’t know what the upgrade script is.

My problem is somewhere in the database.

I don’t know what “pilot error” means.