Re: Suggestions for WordPress support sites -- WEB400

I’m going to have to talk to some of my "PHP on IBM i” literate friends because all of the permissions stuff relate to the user WP runs under and ownership of the files etc. Somebody has been this way before - I just need to find them. So frustrating because everything else works perfectly. Luckily I don’t have to have the updates so I’m going to stop wasting time on it. This one aspect has cost me more time that the rest of the project put together.

As to passwords it looks as if I will simply change all passwords to a new value and email the users asking them to change it when they log in. Doesn’t seem to be an easy way to set a password as expired because WP doesn’t provide the facility so it is plug-in dependent.

Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On May 22, 2015, at 10:12 AM, Pacheco, Mauricio <mauricio.pacheco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Jon,

OK! We are good. Just to recap:

1st issue: Check the wp-config.php settings for FTP and the directory's
security for the plugins. References:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-install-asks-for-ftp-details and
https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions

2nd issue: You can manually update the passwords on MySQL by changing the
field type to MD5 and copy+paste the passwords from one site to another.
References: https://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password

Best regards,

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On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Using MySQL.

As I have said before this is a 100% standard implementation of WP. The
web designer who put the thing together knew nothing about “AS/400” (i.e.
IBM i) and didn’t need to.

The install is no different than on Linux or AIX or …

Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On May 21, 2015, at 9:03 PM, Pacheco, Mauricio <
mauricio.pacheco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Jon,

So far so good?

regarding your second issue: WP encrypts passwords using MD5.
Yes you can update the password manually by changing the field type.
However I don't know if under the AS 400 you are using MySQL. Most likely
no, if you are using DB2/400 I may need to review the table structure and
with a SQL statement it should be straight forward to do the update

either

using Visual Explain or DBU or STRSQL....
As I mentioned before, I don't have ZEND nor WP runing on the AS400

(until

next week maybe) I love this challenges... I love my job!

Best regards,

Mauricio Pacheco
On May 20, 2015 6:47 PM, "Jon Paris" <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Mauricio, thanks for offering to help.

I actually have two issues right now.

First is the one I posted on the Wordpress forum:

"WordPress has updated itself just fine but when I try to update Plugins
and Themes I get the following failure message for all updates.

Downloading update from
https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/akismet.3.1.1.zip…;
Unpacking the update…
Installing the latest version…
Plugin update failed.
An error occurred while updating Akismet: The package could not be
installed. The package contains no files.

I can't find any log messages or anything else to tell me why this is
failing. Any suggestions? I'm a WordPress newbie and this is my first
problem of this nature."

Second issue is that I am setting up users by copying their details from
an older system - but I can’t copy the passwords and need to force them

to

set a new pw when they first sign in to the new system. Not sure how to
accomplish that. Any search for expiring passwords just presents me

with a

myriad of people who want me to install their particular security plug

in.

Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On May 20, 2015, at 5:48 PM, Pacheco, Mauricio <
mauricio.pacheco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Jon,

I am an experienced WP developer. I run 15+ web sites and one intranet.
What can I do for you?

Best regards,

*Mauricio Pacheco*
Systems Architect

6990 Creditview Road,
Mississauga, ON L5N 8R9
Tel: (905) 855 0414 x 1102 - Mobile: (905) 601 4944
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On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

What's that line from Ocean's Eleven; "I met a guy in the joint..."

The webmaster from http://alpineschools.org/ gave an excellent
presentation
on WordPress to

http://uiipa.org/2013/04/06/gslmug-meeting-for-april-10th/

I think he manages or supports something like 75-100 WordPress sites.

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Anyone here got any suggestions for good sources of assistance with
WordPress?

I’ve tried the main support forums but they literally get so many
questions an hour that the net result seems to be that only a tiny
percentage get any responses. And mine is not one of them! Within

12

hours of posting it had sunk to page 3!

Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

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