gudrun

I had a similiar problem a month or so ago – don’t remember the version of WP I was using at the time. I was ready to dump WP, then tried changing templates, and this fixed the problem. I am currently using WP 2.2 and the theme 3column SEO from Easywebtutorials.com.

Here’s a trick I used when my domain name hadn’t resolved correctly and it will hard wire your computer to your new web host.

Find the c:\windows\system32\etc\host file. (Making a backup copy of host, say host.2 would be a good idea.)

Open the file using Notepad and add your ip address followed by your domain name like the examples below. Save the file.

11.79.165.92 yourdomainname.com
11.79.165.92 https://www.yourdomainname.com

Now go back to your internet browser and when you refresh or bring up your website, YOUR pc should find your new bluehost website. Once your are done working on the new site, just remove the lines from the file, resave and you should be back to where the dns are pointing your web address.

Remember to save the file as a ascii test file, if you are given a choic.

Its’s fixed. I tried another thing in the excellent tutorial you refered my to and low and behold things are looking much better now!!!!!!

Bless you!

Thanks for the speedy reply. I have removed the index.html reference from thw wp_options table. But wp is still not letting me log in – but now I get an error –

Warning: main(/home/nutcupsp/public_html/wordpress/index.html/wp-includes/wp-db.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/nutcupsp/public_html/wordpress/index.html/wp-settings.php on line 100

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/nutcupsp/public_html/wordpress/index.html/wp-includes/wp-db.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/nutcupsp/public_html/wordpress/index.html/wp-settings.php on line 100
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This error is pointing it to a folder which I created in my attempts to fix things /index.html/ I have since deleted this folder. I have done a query through phpmyadmin and it finds some references to index.html in the wp_option table.

Most look like this –
OR option_name LIKE CONVERT( _utf8 ‘%index.html%’

If I remove the index.html – do you know if I need to replace it with something, or if I need to delete the “%index.html%’

thanks