I just switched web hosts and had to do a fresh install of s9y, and am getting an email notification for every new comment and trackback hitting the site. I need to turn this feature off as it's making my inbox unusable, but I cannot find where in the settings to do this and it was long enough ago t...

Still not sure why it crashed so hard, but I did a complete reinstall using the backup settings I had and am up and running.

I can still access the database through phpMyAdmin, and it was working perfectly right up until I made this change. Plus, no other settings related to the database were touched.

My complete actions were changing the URL rewriting drop-down, clicking save, and hitting refresh - I made no other changes. The serendipity_config_local.inc.php has an updated time stamp that matches the .htaccess, but none of my attempts to restore or correct that file made a difference, either.

I tried both replacing the .htaccess with my backup and removing the Rewrite lines from the .htaccess that got changed, but neither made a difference; I'm still seeing the "serendipity error: unable to connect to database - exiting."

I was reading a thread regarding URL rewrites ( http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=20336 ), and tried the suggestion to change the URL rewriting to "Use Apache mod rewrite." Rather than fix the problem, though, it made my entire weblog inaccessible, returning the error "sere...