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Solution found – see entry “Dashboard Template missing” – there was more than met the eye…

Saga nears it’s end – fiddled around with settings – root set at 755, wp-content.blogs.dir set at 777. Loads pix fine – will not load at a lesser permission level.
Will have a go at getting plugins and themes – I suspect a similar trick required….

Thank you for your patience and interest, Esmi

Glad we tried that – image size under 1 mb, but problem: error code –

“handthatfeeds.jpg” has failed to upload due to an error
Unable to create directory /home/ftpusername/ftpusername-www/wp-content/blogs.dir/8/files/2011/01. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
Note that ftpusername-www is also the root folder for the site other than mail and logs. Do I need to change permissions for blogs.dir to -say, 766 or 777
I then tried to do and automatic update on the SEO-all-in-one, and got a message – Could not create directory. /ftpusername-www
[the root of the site – https://www.websitename.co.nz]
Permission for root folder was 777, tried changing to 765 and 755 – no change to upload problem. Ponder what setting I should have for root.

Permissions in wp-admin images folder : folder-755, files:644
Permissions in wp-content folder – folder 755, files therein 644
wp=-content/blogs.dir: 755

wp-content- all folders incl :755, files 644

Sorry about all the details, but this is similar to the problem I had to doing an auto-upgrade from 3.0.1 tp 3.0.4 – manual was only way.

So help me – the seo-all-in-one has updated at last. No such luck with the picture upload – ???

Hi, Filezilla fell over and refused to come out of it’s corner – sulking I guess. Went to the website admin and discovered wp-content was set to 777! – changed to 755 as for other folders and bingo!
Many thanks!!! Come visit sometime! I need feedback from folks who know!

Well, the champagne is on hold – got the basic dashboard back with formatting correct, but when I open a link to, say, widgets, the structure disappears to almost how the problem was – a bit more information/icons on the screen but not formated correctly.
Another permissions problem?

Jumboliah! Compared file permissions – the wp-admin CSS looked wrong – changed it to match the rest (755) and VOILA!
Hugs and kisses all round – many thanks esmi for putting me on the right track.

The settings that were changed were associated with the file that the “Constructor” template install required, being a change of permission for that file to 666 – the file and template have been removed.
Looking at the remainder of files, most seem to be –

root files:644

wp-admin: CSS: 766; Images, Includes, JS, Maint: all 755; Files 644

wp-content:777; plugins, themes, upgrade folders: 755, Blogs.dir 775 index.php 744

wp-includes: all folders 755, files 644

Not sure where I should be making changes here – it looks similar to where it all began

Well, I have tried everything I can think of, but I still have a dashboard that is plain white background and a list of dashboard links down the left-hand side of the screen, with content of an opened link appearing at the bottom of the page. This is a network blog set-up

Checking my other blogs which are set in their own single blog installs, even after I have upgraded to v3.0.4, the dashboard for them shows up as correct structure. It’s almost as if WP.org is controlling the layout on the site I am having trouble with…
So, perhaps this one is in the “too hard” basket.
Would I be better off moving on to v3.1?

Thank you, Ipstenu. Perhaps the first thing is to update WP and then see how it works.
Will come back if the problem persists.

Hi folks. A newbie to wordpress, and I have a headache in this database area. Have checked the dbase settings in my host, and configured wp-config as:
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘[database name as stated in host dbase]’);// The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘[username as stated in host dbase]’);// Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘[the password is correct]’);// …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’)[localhost is correct];// 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

Question 1: Have I got this formatting right – or have I mucked it up completely. If it is correct, what else do I need to do. – I seem to recall having to set some permissions in wordpress…. particularly about uploading.

Question 2: If I want to have multiple blog sets, do I need to do anything in relation to the wp-config file settings?

Question 3: Do I need to uninstall wordpress from my site and re-do – or just click “install.php” on the website again,
or should my best solution lay in subscribing to one of the recommended wordpress recommended sites?

Apologies if this stuff has been travelled over before, but I could not find a solution in the forum, todate.