Mr Bearly

G’Day lyllocras,

I’m not the writer of this plugin but I have found a way to get rid of that nag notice, if you’re brave enough.

Go to Plugins, click on Editor.

In the top right drop down menu click and choose PDF Poster from the list.
Choose pdf-poster.php.

Scroll down to the line which reads
add_action( ‘admin_notices’, ‘pdfp_review_request’ );
type a // at the start of that line, it should look like this
//add_action( ‘admin_notices’, ‘pdfp_review_request’ );

Click on the update file button ignoring the warnings.

If you now choose a different page you’ll see the nag has gone.

This might only last until the next plugin update but you can do this again.

Good Luck.

Hmmmm… I might have to spend a bit of time in the Apache files.

No I won’t I have other things to do.

I love magic…

That’s what I thought.

But even setting up a standard subdomain on Apache via Cpanel or Plesk won’t put a default web page in your cgi bin. The default Apache page is an html page isn’t it?

Regardless the issue krizzel is having probably won’t be solved until he/she reinstalls the whole shebang.

Have you looked in your cgi-bin folder for defaultwebpage.cgi?

I really don’t understand why a WordPress installation, single or multi-user, would call any cgi script. There may be a plugin that does that but I am not familiar with it.

I had a recent issue with the WordPress firewall doing it’s job and blocking my IP, easily fixed but annoying briefly.

Remember, computers only do what they are told if and when they understand what they are told. The result they give is determined by what they are told, if you don’t get what you expect then it’s because you, or someone else, failed to give the instructions required to get that output.

This looks more like a host filtering exercise to me.

You may have to do some serious searching through all your .htaccess files in all your directories and sub directories to find this one but I suspect a good start would be to talk with your host.

I visited your main site, applebun.com, worked fine.

I visited your MS site, sg.applebun.com, fail.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function tweetbutton() in /home/wwwapple/public_html/wp-content/themes/sg-eddiemachado-bones-991421e/index.php on line 46

How do you have your plugins set up? Is this your own theme?

You may have to put in a try – catch routine if it is.

No you are not setting it up correctly.

There are three ways to fix this:-
Simplest:
Move everything out of the /ru/ directory and reset all altered files back to standard. Set up multi-user there to create the two blogs you want, link between them.

Slightly harder:
Move everything out of the /ru/ directory and reset all altered files back to standard.

Set up a second blog in the ru direcory and link between the two.

Hardest: (not recommended)
Edit the MySQL table to have the URL(s) you want. I won’t give you more details, if you have the skills required to do this then that is all you’ll need. If you don’t then you should stay away from the MySQL database and manual editing of the tables.

Do it the easy way.

Are all of you testing MS on your own computer?

The errors all look like local host. It could be a PHP version issue.

I have a couple of MS installations on remote servers, one only new, and have not seen this error.

I have a couple of scripts which use IPs to identify visitors. This is an unreliable way to filter as visitors can use one or more proxies to bypass the filters. The visitor might just be using an account, legitimately, which provides an IP address from out of town/state/country.

Google identifies the computer I use at work as being used by a Chinese person and shows a Chinese language page when I visit Blogger. I am in Adelaide so they are very wrong but the company I work for is owned by a Hong Kong corporation.

If Google can’t do it reliably it probably can’t be done except by GPS location tricks but they only work if your visitors are using a smart phone or tablet with all the goodies turned on. Really smart users of these tools turn all that stuff off except when they want to use it themselves.

.htaccess cannot do this well either.

Use rss feeds.

Dead simple plugins to convert feeds to posts.

Used by spammers and black-hatters to create massive link wheels with backlinks to your main site.

Don’t do this. Google will hate you and drop your sites from the SERPs.

However… it can be done relatively safely with a bit of work.

OK, I have had a look at your site from the outside and it looks very nice. You have 5 sites set up?

Have you run the updates page to update the network of blogs?

I also crawled over my version of update-core.php but cannot see where this could be failing.

As Ipstenu says some php errors would help see where this is crashing out. I suspect that there is a linking problem. Somewhere there is a link URL which is incorrect but it could just as easily be a fouled up MySQL call.

If it is a MySQL call which is failing then bringing the network up to date ‘should’ fix it.

One of the beauties of WordPress is that you can completely delete ALL the folders, re-install them and it will work fine. But you will need to backup the core part of the install.

This is really only .htaccess the config.php file and wp-content directory. Everything else is essentially a standard WordPress install.

Because I don’t trust computers at all I would also backup the entire MySQL database before I tried this out so I could restore it in the event of a failure.

You may find that you have to back up the database in bloks rahter than all in one go, they can get pretty big.

Good luck with all that. There is a fix here, we just have to find it.

G’Day nbweaver,

Since we can’t see what you are looking at it may help if you supply a screen shot of the almost blank page and the full URL of that page.

What you are describing seems more like a failure to find the body component of the page. It has the header, navigation and footer so as far as WP is concerned there is no error to report.

Update-core.php is a very busy page of code. It is very robust but it may have been corrupted so it looks as though you may have to do a manual upgrade this time.

You could try a sneaky trick, using your ftp program upload just a clean copy of update-core.php into your wp-content/network/ folder. If it is corrupted this should fix the problem.

Rename the old one first in case there is no change in which case you should revert to the original file.

At worst you end up having to do a manual install of WordPress.

G’Day nbweaver,

The old White Screen of Death…

https://www.colinmcnulty.com/blog/2008/07/08/solution-to-wordpress-blank-screen-of-death/

Describes a number of potential solutions for you. I have had this one before and the last solution in this blog post solved the issue for me then.

There is way of deactivating all your plugins other than via the Admin Dashboard or the MySQL database, just rename the plugins folder (in the wp-contents folder) to anything else. I usually add ‘old-‘ in front of any files/folders I rename so I know what they were called if I want to go back again.

G’Day nbweaver,

I found and fixed my problem, with luck it may also fix yours.

In your FTP program go into the folder wp-content of your blog.

Check the permissions of the folders network and user. Mine were 757. Change them to 755. There is probably a right-click menu in your FTP tool to allow you to change permissions.

I think the host is preventing access to a folder with world write permissions which is correct.

Good luck.

G’Day nbweaver,

I think you may be having a similar issue to me. Are you getting a 404 Page not found error instead of the Network Admin Dashboard?

Can you get to the Network Admin Dashboard?