emlawrence

Found it!!

https://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/section/uploading/ftp#ftp

Thanks for the help!

Hi Dandy Plow. Don’t give up on me, but my Site and Profile both have FTP enabled. I waited the one to five minutes they suggested but I’m still not getting FTP to work! Any other suggestions?

Thank you! I checked and I already set up a username and password. Those aren’t the problem. The problem is the hostname. How do I know what to put there? I tried my url (writeornot.com) and I get the error, so that isn’t it. I tried using the Connect to: info that I use to make Fugu (ftp client) connect and that didn’t work. Is there someplace I can go to find my hostname?

I tried typing in my shell to find my home path to wordpress:
<?php $path = get_home_path() ?>
and I got a syntax error. I just need to find my home path and I can’t seem to get it to work. Can anybody help?

Clarification:
I’m trying to get WordPress to upload media/themes/plugins and it won’t. I get the error ‘Failed to connect to FTP Server lawrencesql.db:21’ every time I enter my hostname, username and password. They are all definitely correct.
So I did a search and found the above solutions, but I need to navigate to wordpress on my server in order to get them to work. I don’t know how to do that.

So I bit the bullet and went to my phpAdmin and deleted everything under my database with wp in front of it. I left the database itself alone, but everything else went. Then I reinstalled wordpress. I lost my two weeks of work (it was backed up, i’ll survive) but I can log into wordpress again.
I’m having other problems now, but the login problem is fixed.

hope nobody else has to do that…and if you do, i hope you backed up what you wrote.

Ok, I tried to uninstall and reinstall wordpress again and now I get a blank white page when I try to open my page https://www.writeornot.com. No errors, just a blank white page. What did I do?

I had a bug on the page, something was wrong with my plug ins and nothing would fix it. I couldn’t upload any images. So I deleted wp completely using Fugu and then reinstalled it and it fixed the bug. Everything ran smoothly for two days, then this loop happened.

Should I try the phpAdmin thing?

Yes, but not very helpful. The suggestions are to try reinstalling wp (i did), to try getting rid of plug ins (i did) and your theme (i did). still looking but need something different…

Thanks Evan,
I can’t access my dashboard to refresh permalinks…I can find the .php file for this but I’m not about to mess around with it unless someone can give me some specific info.

Hi Evan,
I tried that six times in a row just now and it didn’t work. Thanks for the suggestions, keep ’em coming???