Michael

Sounds a bit odd.

Can you give me a link to your site. I’ll have a quick check.

You don’t have hotlink protection on or anything (cpanel option I think)?

What version are you running? I seem to remember WordPress remembering which ones you left open.

Try upgrading to 2.0.5.

Try re-uploading upgrade.php and see if that helps.

Does the database user (i.e the one you used when installing wordpress) have access to that database?

I wrote a very quick plugin for you.

https://www.bluetrait.com/files/wordpress-plugins/delete_comments.zip

Activate it and it will delete all un-approved and spam comments.

Please note. Each time you reload wordpress the plugin runs and deletes everything. So only leave it active until all your spam comments have been deleted.

I recommend you backup first too. Although I did just test it here without any issues (ver 2.0.5)

You can download phpmyadmin from here:
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/

If you’ve got access to phpmyadmin run the following SQL statement on your WordPress database.

DELETE FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = ‘0’

Sounds like a cookie/session problem.

What is the url of your blog? i.e https://localhost/

What browsers have you tried?

Looks like mod_rewrite isn’t working.

1) Make sure you have the module loaded in apache
2) Make sure your apache settings are correct:
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#allowoverride
3) Make sure you have a .htaccess file in the wordpress root.

Since you’re running Windows you’ll need to make sure you have an SMTP server installed. I think Windows 2003 comes with one. Enable that or install one.

Once you’ve done that edit your php.ini file so that the SMTP server points to 127.0.0.1.

Another option to try is simply point the SMTP server to your ISPs mail server.

You’ll need to restart IIS.

I’ve written a plugin that should fix this problem.

You can download it here:
https://www.bluetrait.com/files/wordpress-plugins/http_x_cluster_client_ip.zip

Let me know if it works for you.

Thanks.

P.S That is the first plugin I’ve written ??

First off it looks like it signs you up to spam mailing list, so be-careful of that.

I’ve had a quick look at the code. It doesn’t look like it sends any personal information to them. Although there are some things in the code that seem a bit odd.

It looks like it writes out a debug log to wp-content/post-schedule-ping-optimizer.log, I’m not sure of the contents but you should check that before using it.

Also it looks like you need to setup a real cron for the pinging to occur. So you’d need to have access to do this on your server.

I personally don’t use WordPress (not for the reasons stated on that spammy site), but if I did, I wouldn’t use that plugin.

I’m going to setup a fake email address, download it and have a look at the code. I’ll let you know if I find anything odd.

You might like to try repairing your database, mysql can go screwy every now and then.

Have you used your mysql database before? I personally don’t think it is a wordpress or Zeus problem. Is that how your password and username are ment to be typed. I know with some setups you use username_database or something like that.
Do you have cpanel or some other web interface management tool?