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To move the database from the old version to the new one, I used the WP-DBManager plugin. I didn’t look at the exported file before I imported it because I didn’t realize it could be altered by the process of exporting or importing it. This whole move-the-database business was something I’d never had reason to attempt before.

Being new to the process, I’m not sure I want to mess around with the database too much. When I have time, I may go back and edit a few months’ worth of posts manually and leave the rest as they are.

I have limited access to phpMyAdmin and am not sure how much manipulation I could do. Here’s a link: https://tattoo.infmom.net/page/2/

Someone suggested capturing the page source into an HTML editor and using search and replace, but I have no idea where the cleaned-up file should be ftp’d to when I finished the job.

Just on the off chance, I tried re-uploading the folders one more time, because my ftp program is known to be quirky (gotta get me a new one pronto). Now it works.

Thank you for your help, esmi.

OK, folders re-uploaded, but no change.

Adding on: Changing to the default theme did not work, either.

No, unfortunately neither of those is correct. I have no idea why this is happening.

Problem was caused by the Podcasting plugin which insisted on creating a directory called /feed/podcast and thereby messed up the /feed URL.

Bad plugin. Bad. Out.

Called host. They are going to run some diagnostics. I appreciate your help, obviously I’m clueless. ??

Addendum… index.php is definitely present in the root WP directory and the permissions seem to be proper (644).

Yipe! I had no idea things were that messed up.

The host changed some permissions when I was having trouble a couple days ago. I wonder if they changed too many?

I have not tried other themes–spent a lot of time customizing TechLand and didn’t want to have to start all over again.

Sorry. Didn’t see your answer before I updated my original post. Thank you for the information.

Update: It appears that the problem is being caused by the way the blog redirects to the Dashboard tab. If I go directly to the Dashboard via my bookmark, it works perfectly. But if I try to click on the Dashboard tab from somewhere within WordPress, the redirect link is incorrect and thus leads to the error message.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix the link?

Good luck… I’m having the same problem and nobody’s come up with an answer for me either. Sigh.

Help! It’s started again. As of today (2/5) I cannot access the Dashboard. I’m getting the same message:
Warning: You cannot access this file directly!

What is causing this and what can I do to fix it? I’m sure as heck not going to try updating as long as this is going on.