Last 2 days, I almost went crazy when I found out that I couldn’t login to my WordPress blog anymore even though had successfully upgraded to WordPress 2.9.2. Every time i went to the wp-admin page, it was being redirected to error 404 page.

I did try to get help from WordPress Support Forums and BlogCatalog but luck was not with me. At that moment, I really didn’t know what to do already and even thought of rebuilding this blog again. Luckily, I procrastinated the idea and decided to investigate further.

So what I did was that I created a php file named test.php with the following code in it:

and then place it one each under root and wp-admin folder. What happened was that the test.php was working fine under the root folder but NOT for the wp-admin folder. Ah-hah! This had at least given me some hints why I was not able to access any php files inside of wp-admin folder. Then I proceeded to creating a temporary folder, for example called ‘testphp’ under root and copy the test.php into it to test if the php file was working fine. Yes, it worked! At that moment, I had the strong feeling that I could identify the root cause of the problem.

What I did after that was I compared the permission between ‘testphp’ of the wp-admin folders. Guess what, I discovered that the permission between the 2 folders were somehow different where ’testphp’ and wp-admin folder were having permission 755 and 777 respectively. I was not sure why permission of wp-admin had been changed to 777 during WordPress upgrade process. Anyway, I proceeded to changing the permission from 777 to 755. Bingo! It has started to work again and I have a sigh of relief.

Just in case you encounter almost the same kind of problem as I described above in the future, please be sure to check if the permission of the wp-admin folder is set to 755 before proceeding to finding out other potential root cause such as file permission, corrupted/missing files and so on.

Thanks for reading my long winded story!

Let me share with you what I have achieved, learned and improved for year 2009. I invite you to do the same thing!

I am proud to have done the following:

An exciting new year has come….. and it’s time to start planning our new journey for 2010.

Have you make your new year resolutions yet? Again, I invite you to share your new year resolutions or goals in your blog.

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Here, I’ll start the ball rolling by committing and declaring my personal GOALS:

So those are my personal GOALS for 2010! So, if I don’t achieve them by end 2010, don’t hesitate to write in and laugh at me!

I hope that I have inspired you! Here, I’d like to wish everyone of you “A Very Happy and Prosperous New Year” for your business and your family.

Some of you may have been wondering what happened to my WordPress blog as it was unavailable for a few days. I’m sorry, something unexpected happened last Saturday resulted in an unrecoverable crash to my WordPress Database and all the previous data has been lost.

This is what my WordPress Blog looked like in the past.

I’m coming back now. But, I’m still in the midst of rebuilding my blog….of course with a new WordPress Theme. This time round I’m going to pick a Theme from WooThemes, one of the top WordPress Theme sites with tons of high quality WordPress Blog Themes.

Please bear with me for the time being! I will get this self-hosted WordPress Blog up and running again as soon as possible.

No matter what, as always, thank you so much for your support all this while! It really means a lot to me.

To show my appreciation, I’m giving away the following gifts to all my blog readers.

1. The Secret To Personal Power

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Go download all of them now and I hope they would make great early Christmas presents for you guys.

Please visit my blog again.