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Ok, I reinstalled WordPress 2.8.6 and the problems vanished. Apparently I munged something while I was figuring out how to avoid getting a gigabyte of error messages every week due to WordPress’ INEPT PROGRAMMING.

That was weird. What an unstable freaking environment.

Resolved: I reinstalled WordPress 2.8.6 and the problem vanished.

Oops. Never mind. I found it.

Upgraded to WordPress 2.7.1. No change in behavior. Anybody? Help!

Sorry about your head.

Yes, that was the problem. And yes, I’m gui-ing. And I’m also documenting the steps, ’cause that one had me locked out for a whole damn day.

Thank you very much for your help.

First question sounds like the right one. I did not create an exception for ports http/https.

What file would contain that exception?

I’ve eliminated DNS and IP setup as the source of the problem. I can ping my domain (“ping https://www.mydomainname.com”) and get timely replies. I can run index.php with a simple “php_info()” call, and it works fine. But when I attempt to reach the WordPress web page by any means, it hangs. I’ve tried browsing the URL (https://www.mydomainname.com), browsing “localhost,” and browsing the host’s IP address. In all cases I get the same result: 90 seconds of waiting, then a timeout.

Help! My web page has now been out of service 30 hours, and I’m losing readers.

I added the name of my domain to the /etc/hosts entry 127.0.0.1, and tried both “localhost” and “127.0.0.1” from the URL bar. Both resolved properly to the correct name (www.myhostname.com) but neither one loaded the page. So, I guess there’s a problem on the Fedora box somewhere. I just don’t know where.

The WordPress files and folders are chown’d to apache.web. Is that a problem?

Never considered CentOS, no. However, I’ve had a similar experience with Fedora; I’ve had to restore this sucker about 5 times in the last year. I just figured it was because I’m not a competent system administrator. Are you saying other Unix incarnations are more stable?

Seriously, folks: does anybody know where Apache gets its path instructions when assembling a page, and why it might use different paths for newer versus older posts? Do I need to restore mysql from before the power failure?

I’m stuck here.

Added detail:

It was working just fine. Then my server crashed and I had to reinstall Linux; and THEN I upgraded Linux from Fedora Core 7 to Core 8.

I updated sendmail.mc to recognize my ISP’s outgoing mail host as the relay for outgoing mail (smtp.comcast.net).

When I get a new user to register, root on my local host gets mail indicating a couple of things: 1) [email protected] failed (UNKNOWN). and 2) internal.relay.comcast.net (fictitious name) BLOCKED.

Any suggestions?

Phil W.

Thanks.

How long does it usually take for the site receiving the trackback to register it? Is this usually automatic (as I would assume) or does the author have to respond somehow?

I ask because I followed your instructions and did not see the trackback appear the way the automatic pingback does. But I’ll be patient, and check my work.

adamrbrown: Thanks, that solves ONE problem.

Now — I suppose I have to modify the CSS <p> behavior to force space between the paragraphs?

Note: I never used to have to do that, AND I STILL don’t have to do that for the portion of the text that lies above the <hr /> tag.

I’m telling you, there is a bug. Yes, I can work around it, but this is NOT well-behaved code.

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Listen: I just want some vertical space between the horizontal rule, the text, and the bottom of the post.

I used to be able to press the return key and get that. Now I can’t.

SO… if I can’t just press the return key, and I can’t force WordPress to give me vertical space by inserting deliberate breaks…

HOW DO I ACCOMPLISH VERTICAL SPACING?

If it’s not a bug, then apparently I need some lessons in simple layout. Because I honestly don’t know any other way to space text other than linefeeds/carriage returns or deliberate breaks.

Educate me, then.

What?

I want vertical space between my horizontal rule, my comments, and the bottom of the post, and WordPress won’t let me insert vertical space?

This is a desired function?

Utter crap.

Sheesh.

You apparently MISSED THE SECOND FREAKIN’ PARAGRAPH, in which I explained that the ONLY FREAKIN’ REASON I WAS USING TO FREAKIN’ BEGIN WITH was that WordPress started eating carriage returns at 2.3.2.

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