Former Ramblings of an Insane, Lesbian, Book Writing Crip
The fun with WordPress continues. I’ve never had this much trouble before. Never. And when I did, it’s because I messed something up, not a problem with the software.
Anyway, I can’t even log in with IE anymore so it’s not a Firefox problem. Still working on getting some help but not getting very far. Either no one knows or I am the only one, which I doubt.
I’ll keep everyone updated, if I can.
Whilst connected to the website via IE (another shudder), I went to the user section and changed a user (just another persona of me I created to view the website a different way) from member to administrator. I can now log in and do all sorts of stuff as HR (short for HolyRoller) that I have not been able to do as PaulaO.
Freaky, eh?
Anyone have any ideas?
I am having to use IE (shudder) to log into this site and post. I have tried all sorts of remedies with WP itself but am now thinking it is a Firefox problem. First time ever I have had a problem with Firefox, if it is the culprit.
The problem is this: the log in page reloads. If I enter the wrong username or password, it gives me the error message, as it should. But if it is right, it just reloads. Repeatedly. If I click a bookmarked link to the admin section, sometimes I get in, sometimes I don’t. And when I do get in, usually I am kicked to the log in page whenever I click a link within the admin (or when the program tries to autosave the draft of a post).
I’ve tried a wide variety of things to try and solve this problem.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/226628 (someone else’s post but I contributed some near the end)
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/222737 – this one is resolved but I tried it again with no success
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/229521 – yet another one for this latest problem
https://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=243812&forumId=1 – support page within Firefox to see if I can get help there.
Anyone have any ideas? This is driving me nuts. It is a consistent problem with this site and is a regular problem with the others. And with various versions of WP.
That’s how the computers have been for me lately. First the internet connection was acting up (got a new cable modem). Then I upgraded my servers with my website host and my sites went down for several days (a bad script or something on their end). Next I upgraded the main site’s WordPress install and it promptly went down (no clue exactly but a wide variety of fixes was needed and it’s still not acting right). Then I made Mike his own site with WordPress and, you guessed it, that went bad (not sure what was wrong there either, but it is working).
Normally, WordPress works great. But I’m not sure about the latest version. Each time I install it, either myself or through Dreamhost’s “One-Click Install”, something goes wrong. Then yesterday, this blog was not letting me into the admin section. I hadn’t done the upgrade because the others were so mucked up. No clue what was wrong but it is working, so far, today. I did do a virus and spyware/malware check on this laptop and did a hard boot. Nothing came up but who knows?
Anyway, life goes on. Mike is growing, Joella is jealous, PopCorn is ill (more on that in a few days), Sam is playing with Mike, Casey is still being her usual obnoxious self, and Lorna is just as wonderful as ever. I must’ve done something wonderfully good in my otherwise normal childhood in order to deserve such a wonderful partner. She’s beautiful, smart, a great cook, got a glorious singing voice, and yet, she loves me. How weird, wacky, and wonky is that?
Silly me! Trying to update the main site (paulaoffutt.com) so that it had the latest WordPress! Now it won’t work! I can’t log in! I can’t access anything! I log in and it just reloads the log in page! (enough exclamation points?!)
Arrggghhhh!!!
Why won’t it work???
Yay!
Dreamhost, the best web host evah, now has Private Servers available. I decided to give it a try. Everything went fine except the websites (as in ALL of them) were down for several days while we waited on the DNS whatchacallit to catch up. I finally asked tech support why it was taking so long (usually it is done within 24hrs). I got a reply today and seems there was a file error somewhereanother and all is well.
Way cool and groovy.
More later. I’m out the door as soon as I finish this.
The main site is acting wonky. At least for me it is.
Anyone else get a weird full page error message? “Precondition failed”?
I’m on my way out of town (read for us, Kev and Col??) and can’t really fix it until I get back.
I just rechecked it and the site comes up fine. Until I get into the admin section and then it boots me. Weird.
Still, if anyone else has problems, let me know.