Fred Whitton
So it’s over. A lovely day out with all St Bees starters finishing one way or another. The official results aren’t in but my timing was 8 hours 28 minutes, so well under the 9 hours target. Only a little sunburn to contend with today and not too much stiffness. A full report when the results are in…..
It looks like its fixed
So after some major time wasting by myself the problems have been fixed. All down to mod security and the host end.
just for reference the symptoms were:
1. Could not upload any media
2. Could not edit or save edits to any pages, post, plugins or widgets
Here’s the long list of things I tried and eventually ended up doing out of desperation
- Reinstall WP2.5
- Install WP2.5.1
- Clear all caches and cookies
- Searched WP forums for possible solutions
- Wasted loads of time trying things that didn’t work
- Posted on WP forums asking for help - no-one came
- Deleted all files from my host (after backing up)
- Reinstalled WP2.3.2 and couldn’t recover database
- Upgraded using WPAU plugin to WP2.5
- Tried to recover database again
- Failed
- Tried again and again and again
- Failed again and again and again
- Considered using other CMS like drupal or joomla
- Installed XAMPP and WP2.3.2 / WP2.5 and WP2.5 on a flash drive to try and recreate problems - no success
- Redirected my whole site to old WP.com site
- Tried to relsove through WP IRC. No one about
- Decided that this was a very good way of backing up seeing as everything else went to the dogs
- Contacted my host and within 15 had the problem solved.
Can you tell that this has cheesed me off?
Website issues
I’ve spent far too many hours over the last few days ‘fixing’ some big problems with the site. I have no idea what had happened but needless to say nothing was working and there wasn’t any clues.
I’ve reinstalled a number of times, removed plugins, reinstalled plugins, changed themes and I’m thinking that I’ll back up a little more often in future, and keep those backups off the server as the ones I had didn’t restore at all….hence the roll back to January
Fred Whitton
ooooo eck…….what have I let myself in for¬† I’ve been up Hardknott twice, both of those times I nearly had a heart attack!!
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