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Well, actually, I’m not sure I “figured out” anything! Just a lot of black magic going on.

To vtxyzzy: Yeah, I fixed it LOL.

To tigtog: You must have looked after I “fixed” the problem with that screwy switchero.

I created an identical copy of the About page, called it About (so now there were two About pages), and set that new one in the Reading Settings. Then I put the original About page in the trash and now it’s working.

The template in both the bluehost page and the localhost page is set to Default Template. I’m not sure what “it” is when you say “or maybe it is missing.” Do you mean the About page itself? I’m showing the Pages widget at the top of the sidebar and About is in the list and when you click on it, the About page is displayed. What else could the problem be?

Okay. Thanks.

Try adding AddType x-mapp-php5 .php to the top of your WordPress .htaccess file.

What is this in reference to? What is it supposed to do? Where is the .htaccess file located? I searched for it and found it in this location, where H: is the thumb drive letter:

H:\xampp\htdocs\xammp\sqlite

Does that make sense, and if so, why?

Well, now it’s been about two hours since I started the auto-update. I have no idea what happened, but my Dashboard is still active and says I’m still at 3.0. So apparently when I tried to upgrade, nothing actually happened.

I’d still appreciate it if someone could answer the first two questions I asked in my original post in this thread. I think I know the answer to my third question, since I have now closed that Update page and there doesn’t seem to be any consequences, thank heavens.

Somehow I carelessly missed the warning about backing up my existing installation before attempting to update to 3.0.1. I should have known better in the first place, but it appears that no harm was done because the 3.0.1 installation apparently hung and never got off the ground.

FYI, 20 minutes, on a volunteer forum, is … fast.

20 minutes on any forum is fast! It’s just that my original reply was in 12 minutes and I thought the poster might still be around.

I actually did find where my version was before I received these two replies. Strangely, I was at 3.0. So I’m updating as I type. Hopefully it will work.

I’m trying to get calibrated on the tone of the WordPress Website. I don’t know whether there is a lightheartedness about it that does things like prompting for installations when it knows it has already been installed, or whether these are just bugs on the Website: failure to check on the state of the user’s installation.

Never mind. I waited 20 minutes, didn’t get a reply, so took a chance and clicked Install WordPress. I was told WordPress is already installed and it asked me to log in. So I logged in and it asked me to log in again. So I logged in again! Finally the “Dashboard” was displayed.

The Dashboard is prompting me with a yellow banner at the top to update to WordPress 3.0.1, but I thought for sure that that’s exactly what I installed yesterday. I’m wondering if this is another redundant prompt. Could it be? How can I check what version of WordPress is installed on my machine?

Thanks. I’m further along, but apparently I didn’t quite understand what I was doing when I ran through the installation program. In place of your test I have WordPress/WordPress. So when I executed https://localhost/WordPress/WordPress/wp_admin I got a WordPress “Welcome” screen that claims to be the “famouse five minute WordPress installation process that yesterday took several hours to complete.

It seems to me I went through this screen yesterday. It is asking for a Site Title, Username, Password, and my email address. Then there’s an Install WordPress button. But I thought that’s what I already did! I’m very confused by the number of times I’m being asked to install WordPress and I’m afraid to click that button for fear that it will start another installation that will last several hours like it did yesterday, and is anythng but five minutes.

Please give me some assurance that I’m not spiraling down a black hole.