[mndoci]

OK. I have my addon domain issues sorted out.

And I used all the information from Podz Wordpress site and the Wordpress forums and moved my stuff over to ASO. Went into my wp-config file and changed the name of the db and users.

Questions:

1. When I enter the db name as "blog" in the MySQL admin area of cpanel, a prefix (my username) is always added. I presume that the prefix is part of the db name and not just for visual convenience
2. The same is true for all users I add to the db

Has anyone moved wordpress over before and what worked for you?

[shep]

OK. I have my addon domain issues sorted out.

And I used all the information from Podz Wordpress site and the Wordpress forums and moved my stuff over to ASO. Went into my wp-config file and changed the name of the db and users.

Questions:

1. When I enter the db name as "blog" in the MySQL admin area of cpanel, a prefix (my username) is always added. I presume that the prefix is part of the db name and not just for visual convenience
2. The same is true for all users I add to the db

Has anyone moved wordpress over before and what worked for you?

yes, you need to use the prefix. i've moved wordpress over from another host quiet easily.

Welcome to ASO, podz also uses ASO by the way

[mndoci]

yes, you need to use the prefix. i've moved wordpress over from another host quiet easily.

Welcome to ASO, podz also uses ASO by the way

That's one reason I chose ASO .

I still don't know why I am getting the dreaded

Error establishing a database connection

This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can't contact the database server at mysql. This could mean your host's database server is down.

Any troubleshooting suggestions?

[mndoci]

I made a small change, changing the DB_HOST value to 'localhost'. Not sure if that is correct. My DB error has gone and been replaced by all kinds of wp_cache related ones

[war59312]

Hi,

Yes localhost is correct.

For the wp_cahce issues first clear your browsers cache disable wp_cache.

Before you do the following be sure to backup the files. You will need them in a min.

So edit wp-settings.php. Remove this from it:

// For an advanced caching plugin to use, static because you would only want one
if ( defined('WP_CACHE') )
require (ABSPATH . 'wp-content/advanced-cache.php');

Edit wp-config.php and remove both of these:

define('WP_CACHE', true);
define('ENABLE_CACHE', true);

Then reload your site. Everything should be fine now. Of course no more wp_cache atm. Again clear the browser's cache.

Now simply upload the backed up files and re enable wp_cache. And again reload your site. Now it should be fine.

It's an ugly bug thats been around for a long time. That will most likly fix it.

If not please provide some details. Hard to help out when you do not even most the error/warning messages.

Take Care,

Will

[mndoci]

Hi,

Yes localhost is correct.

For the wp_cahce issues first clear your browsers cache disable wp_cache.

Before you do the following be sure to backup the files. You will need them in a min.

So edit wp-settings.php. Remove this from it:

// For an advanced caching plugin to use, static because you would only want one
if ( defined('WP_CACHE') )
require (ABSPATH . 'wp-content/advanced-cache.php');

Edit wp-config.php and remove both of these:

define('WP_CACHE', true);
define('ENABLE_CACHE', true);

Then reload your site. Everything should be fine now. Of course no more wp_cache atm. Again clear the browser's cache.

Now simply upload the backed up files and re enable wp_cache. And again reload your site. Now it should be fine.

It's an ugly bug thats been around for a long time. That will most likly fix it.

If not please provide some details. Hard to help out when you do not even most the error/warning messages.

Take Care,

Will

Thanks a ton and sorry for not posting the error message. I am going to cross my fingers and try out what you suggest. In the meantime, here are the errors I am seeing

Warning: fopen(/home/user/public_html/domain_name/blog/wp-content/cache/wp_cache_mutex.lock) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/user/public_html/domain_name/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-cache/wp-cache-phase2.php on line 79
Couldn't write to: /home/user/public_html/domain_name/blog/wp-content/cache/wp-cache-48736852343c354627f7d006c54befd0.html
Warning: flock(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/user/public_html/domain_name/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-cache/wp-cache-phase2.php on line 88
Warning: fopen(/home/user/public_html/domain_name/blog/wp-content/cache/wp-cache-48736852343c354627f7d006c54befd0.meta) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/user/public_html/domain_name/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-cache/wp-cache-phase2.php on line 223
Warning: fputs(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/user/public_html/domain_name/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-cache/wp-cache-phase2.php on line 224
Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/user/public_html/domain_name/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-cache/wp-cache-phase2.php on line 225
Warning: flock(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/user/public_html/domain_name/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-cache/wp-cache-phase2.php on line 97

[mndoci]

So I've tried multiple times. Here is what I am doing, step-by-step

1. Backing up my database
2. Downloading all my files
3. Creating a new database at ASO and importing the old database into it
4. Uploading all my files to the addon domain folder (keeping the blog structure intact within that). The only thing I do not upload are all the files in the "cache" folder
5. Correcting the database and user settings in wp-config.php
6. Clearing my browser cache
7. Backing up wp-config.php and wp-settings.php
8. Delete the following from wp-settings.php

// For an advanced caching plugin to use, static because you would only want one
if ( defined('WP_CACHE') )
require (ABSPATH . 'wp-content/advanced-cache.php');

9. Delete the following from wp-config.php

define('WP_CACHE', true);


Just for the record, I don't have a line for
define('ENABLE_CACHE', true);



10. In my browser I type in mainASOdomainname/addondomainfolder/index.php. The front page loads up.
11. Clear the cache and re-upload the backed up files.
12. Change my DNS settings to the ASO name servers
13. Same old wp_cache errors (listed above)

[war59312]

Um, try this:

1. Open wp-cache-phase2.php in your favourite text editor
2. Find the wp_cache_ob_end function
3. then inside that function find the line with: ob_end_clean(); (it should be line 219 or about)
4. and finally replace that line with: ob_end_flush();

[mndoci]

Um, try this:

1. Open wp-cache-phase2.php in your favourite text editor
2. Find the wp_cache_ob_end function
3. then inside that function find the line with: ob_end_clean(); (it should be line 219 or about)
4. and finally replace that line with: ob_end_flush();

Thanks. Haven't had a chance to try this yet, but over the Thanksgiving weekend, I definitely want to try and sort this out.

[mndoci]

I tried the blog move from scratch. This time I turned on the wp-cache plugin and options before transferring my files over. I did not move any of the contents of the "cache" folder over.

I then went into wp-config.php and deleted the wp-cache related line.

Then I moved my nameservers over. The front page looks fine, but clicking on individual links is giving me errors like the following

Not Found
The requested URL /blog/2006/11/21/spreading-a-meme/ was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Any suggestions/hints would be much appreciated.

[mndoci]

It looks like the problems were being created by Yahoo specific plugins. I disabled them and things seem to be working properly. There are some other problems but those are best addressed at the wordpress forums at this time.