danielwt

@gravymatt:

No offense taken. To be honest with you, they’re sorta the reason I’m in this situation to begin with, lol… Remember; I called them and was assured that the process of installing another wordpress site was just as simple as the first. “Just click on the link and it’ll guide you” is what they said… So I did… And then I had two urls pointing to the same site. To make it even worse, my old wordpress logon information would do the same…it would literally take me to the new site (both logons would take me to the admin panel of my new site)…

Thus my reason for posting for help on these forums. I was under the impression that I had replaced my old site data with the new; and “overwrite” of sorts… After hours of digging for answers though, I began to learn more about databases and such, and am a bit more confident at this point that there was just an issue with how wordpress was being ‘told’ (by me; accidentally) to extract files…

With that said.. I do plan on contacting them today hoping that they can help. I’m sure they’ll know where the backups are (if they exist), but I’m not confident that they’ll be able to help me get the wordpress side of things worked out…

Anyways, thanks for the feedback… I’ll check out the link you provided now… Thanks again…

Update:

I’ve been able to get into the admin part of my wordpress site now…, but it’s still not right…

I did this by installing a new wordpress site, and using the info from a previously backed-up wp-config.php file within the file management area of my bluehost account (I entered the database name/password/host/prefix from a backed up version I found within the file management area of my cpanel).

This created a brand new wp-config file within the file management area (within my bluehost cpanel).

As a result, all the posts I’ve made on the blog, the pages, and all comments are now viewable within the admin area. HOWEVER, none of my plugins are present….and the site is NOT viewable by typing in the url, nor by clicking the “view site” link within the admin/dashboard area…

Thus, there is still something wrong. What I did is obviously a work-around, which was probably NOT the best way to go about doing anything… I’m hoping that while I’ve learned quite a bit from trial & error, that I didn’t screw everything up in the process!!!

Anyways, I’m still open to suggestions. I plan on calling bluehost tomorrow if I can’t get this resolved, but I figure you all would be the best source for my woes…

Thanks for looking… I’ll keep checking back to see if anyone has posted advice….

ps… I’ve also gone into ‘php my admin’ (within bluehost) and viewed the specific data tables/database I want wordpress to use. Everything is still there; from my previously working/functional wordpress site (comments, posts, users, etc..)…. As such -I assume (hope!) that there’s just a communication error between wordpress and bluehost…

Hopefully I’m giving you guys/gals enough info. for proper guidance (mentorship)!

Thanks for looking!

Anybody?

I have been trying to figure this out for hours now, lol! I need help!

I have managed to clear my browser cache, and uninstall the 2nd version of wordpress… Now I can get to the ‘set-up’ guide for wordpress (as though I’m a first time user)…. I’m asked to enter the following:

Database username
Database password
Database host
Table prefix (if you want to run more than one WordPress in a single database)

After I enter the info from ‘my SQL’ database (in bluehost), this is the message I get:

Error establishing a database connection
This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host’s database server is down.

Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
Are you sure that the database server is running?

Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance….

ps… If you go to my old/original wordpress site, you’ll get an advertisement from BlueHost. If you add the wp-admin to the end of the site (where I would normally sign in), you get a 404 redirect….

Hope that somehow helps…

Thanks for looking…