Shmaff

I’ve come back to working on this problem (alone, seemingly) and have done some more digging…

I’ve chased the problem down to the class ‘wpdp’ found in the wp-includes/wp-dp.php file. This class has a constructor method wpdp, coincidentally *wink*, and calls the ‘__construct’ method (line #306). Finally, somehow, the connection to the mysql database fails on line #318. I tried to define the WP_DEBUG constant as such:

define(‘WP_DEBUG’, ‘WP_DEBUG’, true);

that failing, I also tried:

define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);

Neither define statements worked. I’m no php pro. Actually, this is the first time I’ve even traced php… but have a background in OOP so I’m not that much of a n00b at this sort of thing!

Can anyone else help me in this trace?

Software as tested:

From command line:
rhino:~ alex$ mysql –version
mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.67, for apple-darwin9.0.0b5 (i686) using readline 5.1

rhino:~ alex$ php –version
PHP 5.2.6 (cli) (built: Jul 17 2008 23:04:49)
Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies

Macintosh OSX Leopard 10.5.5 Build 9F33

This is a bump! However, I will bring you up to speed.

I’ve created a new user with permissions equivalent to group. In this case, ‘alex’@’localhost’ since I’m testing on my local machine. I can create databases fine through the command line. Why do I get an error saying “Error establishing a database connection” when I give it these same credentials?

i.e.
User: ‘alex’
Pass: ‘abc123’
Host: ‘localhost’
database: ‘wordpress’

Thanks, Ogre. I will, but for the meantime I just want to get one user, “God”, to work. I’m just focussed on my Intranet for now where I’m not too concerned with security.

Sorry. Here’s the missing link to the aforementioned image.

I understand now. Yes, that makes sense.

Sorry jeremyclark13! I suppose I didn’t take enough consideration of your post. Thanks whooami for pointing this out!

Here is the link to my site.

drmike,

The style.css file is subordinate to the wp-content\themes directory in all cases.

I am using Instantrails. I created a new index.php file to redirect the browser to WordPress’s directory.

C:\InstantRails\www\index.php points to C:\InstantRails\www\wp\index.php

I have not altered anything within the wp directory.

Sorry, maybe I wasn’t clear before. I want my development server to seamlessly be turned on to a production server. The files will not be moving to another machine. I want to be able to test the website over the internet, but when I do, there are no styles visible and the site looks obviously very unfinished. Why is there only plain text visible?