[Hidden-tech] Unable to access WordPress forums (resolved)

[Alan Frank]

Whatever was going wrong on the WordPress forums has been resolved, so I 
have been able to post my question.

--Alan



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Unable to access WordPress forums
Date: 31.03.2020 10:37
 From: Alan Frank <alan at 8wheels.org>
To: Hidden Tech <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>

I am trying to get WordPress running (because it is part of the AWS
training I'm doing) and ran into an issue.  I figured that I'd ask on
the support forums.  To do this requires an account, so I tried to
register.  I was able to enter my desired username, but then got a 502
error after pressing Submit (or the equivalent).  Nonetheless, I got
an e-mail with a link to complete my registration, but clicking on
that link--maybe a minute or two after it was generated--gave a
message that it was expired.  This was all on Chrome.  I tried again
on Firefox and also got the 502 error.  Any suggestions on how to
register, how to ask my question, or how to let WordPress know about
my registration issue?

I suppose I could ask a friend who is already registered to post the
support issue for me, but getting my own account would be preferable.

I did not post this to fish for a solution to the original problem,
but in case anyone is curious, the issue is that wp-blog-header.php 
calls
wp(), which fails because the function is not defined.  Grepping the
directory does not show it as being defined anywhere.  There is no ?>
at the end of that file, so I thought that maybe it had been
truncated, but the original on Github looks the same.  A similar
question was posted a couple of years ago on the WP support forum and
the issue was that wp-config.php had been blanked, but that is not the
case here.

--Alan