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hm. was working fine earlier, then after a couple hours I came back and the dashboard was blank again, even when I clicked to another page and then clicked on the dashboard again. But I logged off, closed that tab, then logged back in and it’s back – for now…

Thanks. Kind of like the “nuclear option” ?? but it did the trick.

geez, never mind. I just tried it out and as soon as I actually use a category, then it shows up. doh!

can anybody help w/ my upload woes?

Error I’m getting now when trying to upload an image (and it’s difficult to see, btw – I have to copy it and paste it into a text editor to see it):

Crunching…
filename.jpg
DismissAn error occurred in the upload. Please try again later.

I’ve granted write permissions to owner, group, and public. what am I missing? I’d rather not have to manually create a new directory each month…

Ok I threw the contents listed above into a file called .htaccess and put it in my /blog directory, and now the original problem has been resolved. On to the next one… figuring out permissions for the upload directory.

is there anything else that should be in the .htaccess file, besides what WordPress is telling me:

`<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>`

If not I could just create my own, right?

I just sent them an email. now I get to hurry up and wait for a reply… ??

web host is websitesource.com.

I don’t see an .htaccess file in my blog directory…

I’ve just upgraded to 2.5.1… problem still exists.

btw, now I can get to the permalink settings the way you descirbed. ??

wow, thanks for the quick response!!

I found the setting you mentioned — it’s under Options | Permalinks. I have “Date and name based ? https://thelifeofbrian.info/blog/2008/06/14/sample-post/&#8221; selected.

I clicked “Update Permalinks Structure” and it came back with a message saying, “You should update your .htaccess now.” I also noticed at the bottom it says, “If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.”

I don’t know where this .htaccess is located…

I’ve discovered a similar problem in that I can’t upload a picture for a post — it tells me, “Unable to create directory [snip]/thelifeofbrian.info/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06. Is its parent directory writable by the server?”

there was no uploads directory under wp-content so I created one, but it’s still giving this error.