peppinl

Hi.

Thank you for your reply, that is so much quicker and easier. I’ll talk to my host but your method improves things a lot.

Linda

Hi,

It turned out that my host changed the line in index.php that said require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’); to require(‘wp-blog-header.php’);. This got the site up.

Although it was up the sidebar was missing so I did some fiddling last night and finally got it working properly. I had to activate my Share and Follow plugin to get the sidebar to show! Don’t know why that would be but it’s working now so that’s fine.

Thanks to you and Esmi for all your help. Hopefully this will help others in the future.

I’m thinking of reverting to the version I had before using my backup – any advice?

My host says it was the theme so I switched to the default theme and despite trying this about 3 hours ago it worked.

there are still some small issues with things but I suspect it must be the theme so I’ll talk to them.

Do I need to put the rewrite code back into the web-config?

Don’t know if this is relevant but I just tried to update another website to 3.2 and although I can see the home page https://lpflowers.co.uk/, I can’t access the admin page with a HTTP Error 500.0 – Internal Server Error.

Here is the web-config from this and my gardeningregisterblog website:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<directoryBrowse enabled=”false”/>
<defaultDocument>
<files>
<clear/>
<add value=”Default.htm”/>
<add value=”Default.asp”/>
<add value=”index.htm”/>
<add value=”index.html”/>
<add value=”iisstart.htm”/>
<add value=”default.aspx”/>
<add value=”index.php”/>
</files>
</defaultDocument>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

compared with the web-config from a website not yet updated:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<security>
<authentication>
<basicAuthentication enabled=”false” />
</authentication>
</security>
<defaultDocument>
<files>
<clear />
<add value=”index.php” />
</files>
</defaultDocument>
<httpRedirect enabled=”false”>
<clear />
</httpRedirect>
<httpProtocol>
<customHeaders>
<clear />
<add name=”X-Powered-By” value=”ASP.NET” />
</customHeaders>
</httpProtocol>
<handlers>
<remove name=”php” />
<add name=”PHP via ISAPI (*.php)” path=”*.php” verb=”GET,HEAD,POST,DEBUG”

modules=”IsapiModule” scriptProcessor=”C:\Php\php5isapi.dll” resourceType=”File” />
</handlers>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

They are quite different so I was wondering if the change needs to be here.

Waiting for host to get back to me.

Yes, the path my FTP client sees is /gardenin/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk/wwwroot/.

I had already changed to the default option of permalinks as per Esmi’s instructions.

I’ll speak to my host to see if they can help.

Please leave this thread open in case they can’t help me.

Done that but no change. I am clearing cache, cookies etc.

This is my web.config file which is slightly different. Do you still want me to remove the block?

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<directoryBrowse enabled=”false”/>
<defaultDocument>
<files>
<clear/>
<add value=”Default.htm”/>
<add value=”Default.asp”/>
<add value=”index.htm”/>
<add value=”index.html”/>
<add value=”iisstart.htm”/>
<add value=”default.aspx”/>
<add value=”index.php”/>
</files>
</defaultDocument>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name=”wordpress” patternSyntax=”Wildcard”>
<match url=”*”/>
<conditions>
<add input=”{REQUEST_FILENAME}” matchType=”IsFile” negate=”true”/>
<add input=”{REQUEST_FILENAME}” matchType=”IsDirectory” negate=”true”/>
</conditions>
<action type=”Rewrite” url=”index.php”/>
</rule></rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

Sorry forgot to give you the url: https://gardeningregisterblog.co.uk

Did that without success. The only thing is that I don’t have a .htaccess file due to the type of server I’m on. Spoken to my host a few times about this.

Don’t worry I’ve check that myself a couple of times, thought I was going mad! Anyway checked again and it’s definitely the right site and I double checked the names and sizes and they match.

Ok, done that and checked that they are all there. No luck.

Which files do you think? Should I just upload everything again?

I followed the manual update instructions so deleted wp-includes and wp-admin and replaced them then uploaded the files from the new wp-content into my old folder to overwrite but did not delete. The I uploaded loose files from the root. Is this correct?

Here’s what’s in the root index.php file

<?php
/**
* Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn’t do anything, but loads
* wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
*
* @package WordPress
*/

/**
* Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
*
* @var bool
*/
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
?>