kat569

I think, once GoDaddy is back up and running, I may just have to reinstall from there and see if that fixes it. I was hoping the recent “Anonymous” attack on GoDaddy might have been the source of at least some of my issues but sadly that’s not the case. If reinstalling doesn’t work, it’s going to be scrapped. I’m done.

I’m wondering if there’s a problem with the update. I can sign in just fine, but now am battling the system to reauthorize my Facebook account and Facebook page. I keep getting prompted to upgrade my account both on LinksAlpha and on WordPress. Not only that, NONE of my blog post links are working; they reroute to the static front page. I’m about to put a bullet through this laptop…

RESOLVED.

I have no earthly clue how, but I have it up and running! What I ended up doing was going into my GoDaddy account, uninstalling WordPress, and logging out. I then cleared my computer’s cache from my browser and rebooted. I signed back into GoDaddy, reinstalled WordPress using their one-button install feature, and did NOT upload the wp-config.php file (which is what every site I looked at was telling me to do).

It worked. I went to the wp-admin page and it brought up my dashboard and allowed me to set it up! I’ve gotten my theme reinstalled and have added all the fun plugins and other stuff I wanted. And my first post on the new self-hosted blog had the Rafflecopter show up just FINE.

Thank you everybody for trying to help me; apparently I was doing TOO much in trying to install it!

Okay, I’m ba-ack! LOL

Today, instead of the redirect back to the free wordpress.com blog, I got this:
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Error establishing a database connection
This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at lisawells569.db.9660461hostedresource.com. This could mean your host’s database server is down.

Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
Are you sure that the database server is running?
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Now I have redone the wp-config.php file about a million times, entering my info. The dbase server listed SHOULD have a period between 9660461 and hostedresource; but even though it IS in my file, it does not show up on this error message. Is that part of the problem?

I found in another thread the suggestion to do a test.txt file to the topmost folder; that DID work. When I put it into the topmost folder and went to https://www.learning2save.com/test.txt, I saw exactly what I had saved in that file.

I am now wondering if somehow GoDaddy messed up in installing WordPress (they have a one-click install button). Should I just delete that and do it all from scratch?

I did not see that indicated anywhere, thank you. I did leave it overnight (from 1 AM the first night I was trying until about 3PM the next day), and it hadn’t worked at that point. I will hold off and see what happens. If it doesn’t work, I have a friend who is going to provide hosting and will set it up for me.

I have tried. I’ve gone into WordPress.com and changed the default back to kat569.wordpress.com and undone the redirection of the domain on there, then have gone into GoDaddy and changed the redirection by selecting “Set Nameservers,” then choosing “I have a hosting account with these domains.” It still redirects to kat569.wordpress.com no matter which .php file I try to open, and gives me a nice little “oops” message after it does.