RobCarr

Uh, never mind.

For some reason, the change in permission to .htaccess didn’t stick – when I tried it again, it fixed everything.

WP seemed to be working fine on the CrossOver Online! web site.

This morning, I created a new page, and it won’t show up. I went to edit the .htaccess file and it says I don’t have permission to edit the file. It won’t let me edit any file that I’ve tried.

I’m guessing I’ve got a bigger problem than just not being able to post a new page. Any idea on what caused this and how to fix it?

I’m supposed to be the only one with access to the site.

The site itself (with the exception of the new page I tried to add) seems to work fine.

Oops. I got interrupted and by the time I hit the send button, the answer was already there!

Thanks!

Rob

That was the answer to a question I didn’t know to ask!

I’ve done that now, but it doesn’t solve the original problem, which I must not have described well.

I think what I need to do is replace the

<?php comment_author_link() ?>

in the /wp-content/themes/default/comments.php module with something that just gives me the author name. Is there a

<?php comment_author() ?>

function (or something like it that would only give me the name of the author of the comment) that I could use?

Rob

MacManx –

That fixed it! Thank you very much. I’m adding that site to my list of troubleshooting sites.

Thanks to everyone!

Sorry about the feed: part – I did a search on RSS and it didn’t come up.

As for the RSS, I can get the wp-rss2.php to come up. It won’t transmit any data. You don’t get any items listed. I’ve even tried adding posts to see if only new posts will come up. So far, it’s not giving me anything.

“And as I mentioned above, “old style permalinks continue to work.”
Yep. You said it, I missed it. Dain bramage. Sorry about that, chief!
Thanks to all.
I’m going to make the change as soon as I do a complete backup. I’m not paranoid. I’ve simply learned from my mistakes.

Thanks. I think I understand most of this now. What I’m still not clear on is what would happen to the old permalinks if I change to a new system.
Does it update the old permalinks, or would it leave the previous ones alone and only create “nice” permalinks for the new ones?
Thanks!
Rob

I forgot to mention:
Yeah, it’s not in the main directory. I gotta figure out how to fix that one of these days….

I found the solution.
If you can’t get the thing running, one apparent trick is to find someone with a WordPress blog that is hosted by the folks hosting your blog.
I found out that the line I had messed up was:
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘https://io2.your-site.com&#8217;); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
It should have been
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘io2.your-site.com’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
Thanks to podz for helping me chase down the source of the problem, and for James Landrith for telling me the correct form. His blog is at:
https://www.jameslandrith.com/index.php
Mine is at https://unspace.net/wordpress/index.php

>In that case, could the db_name be wrong ?
Copied it right out of the e-mail, going to the web site confirms it.
I’m not sure what the following is telling me:
“You can only access your database from our servers using the username and password above. On the europa server, we have the command line mysql client available in /usr/local/bin that can be used via a ssh2 session.”
Rob

>The host line looks wrong to me.
The host is not on the same server as the web site – for security reasons according to Your-Site.
“Your database is not on the same server as your web site; we have a dedicated MySQL server. You’ll want to set your CGI, PHP and ASP scripts to connect to this
server.”
>Are you using a cpanel ?
I don’t know.
https://io2.your-site.com is running phpMyAdmin 2.4.0-rc2.
I looked up cpanel – it doesn’t look like it’s being used, but I may be wrong.
Rob