The problem is that I have made a wordpress site on localhost, than I have copied everything to a 000webhost.com domain, changed every post and page IDs, but the site doesn't work on the domain after I log off my wordpress account.
The site has language change option which is works with a languageID cookie (value is 0 if english, and 1 if hungarian). I click on the flag of the language, the cookie value is change properly and the site language too, but when I load another page, the language stays the old. The page sees the cookies (I watched it in the Application->Cookies menu), and after a hard reload, the language changes. The path is / and I gave an expiration date too.
The other strange things is that if I overwrite the header.php file, the header won't change its contant on the pages exept the front page.
I can't upload the site's files cause they are very huge, but I can tell more things that could help you to solve my problem:
The pages have their own .php files with their slug (like page-some-slug.php)
The permalinks are like www.mysite.com/pagename
Everything works fine on localhost with or without logged in with my wordpress account
I have changed only the page and post ID-s in the code
I have changed the header.php files, but the header on the pages didn't changed even after hard reload the browser
If you could help, please help me!
As you mentioned that the WordPress script worked in your localhost and now it's not working on 000webhost.com a free web hosting services? right?
The issue is the free web host, They have restrict free users access for limited feature.
Maybe they don't allow .htaccess and session creation.
Most things are restricted, if your script works on localhost sure it will work live server. You need to get a paid hosting to unlock all the features.
You can confirm with the 000webhost.com, what are they restricted with free hosting users.
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We have a dev site www.dev.site.co.za & a live site www.site.co.za.
I wanted the dev site updated to be a current replica of the live site, so our hosting provider copied it over.
But now when if you go to www.dev.site.co.za, you are "redirected" to www.site.co.za. I have tried changing the siteurl in phpmyadmin but that hasn't resolved the issue.
Is there somewhere else the url needs to corrected and is there anything else I need to do to make sure the dev site is a completely separate environment to the live site so I can safely fiddle without damaging the live site?
wordpress not only uses the database in PHPMyAdmin for the url.
As mentioned in the official documentation there are several files that can include the url:
the wp-config.php (wordpress file)
the functions.php (theme file)
Check these and have a look for the url address.
Have a look at the .htaccess file!
Also:
Helpful for that issue (e.g. restoring a wordpress page on another server) is the plugin BackupBuddy. It is one of the most well known plugins for wordpress. (Know right now that it is a paid version! But as always there are others with the functionality).
It allows you to backup and restore your page on a new system. You can initially set your new desired address for the system then.
Maybe it is worth a look!
For rectifying your dev site issue, you can try this.
Following is the URL to a simple utility via which you can replace some value in your database with some desired value.
https://github.com/interconnectit/Search-Replace-DB
Download the utility (zip file).
Upload it to your dev site root location and unzip it there. So that the the URL of the unzipped folder becomes: www.dev.site.co.za/Search-Replace-DB-master/.
Visiting that URL will show you the screen with options to replace some values in your database with desired values.
This utility automatically selected the connected database.
Put the URL of your live site in the field to replace.
Put the URL of your dev site in the field to replace with.
Choose the Dry Run option to see what all tables and columns will be affected.
Once you see the results and know what is changing then you the click on Live Run.
Clicking on Live Run will change all the URL of your live site in dev site database with URL of your dev site.
Once the changes are done you can delete this folder.
Hope this will at least resolve the problem of redirection of dev site to live site.
Once the new site is built you can then migrate(move, copy) it to the live site's location. There are some tools out there to help with moving the site you can use once the site is done. Some require a plugin to be installed to do that though. For example magicmigration can be used to move the completed site to a new location (that one specifically doesn't take extra installs). It is also possible to manually migrate the site though depending on the situation and know-how that can be a bit much for some people.
I have a drupal site connected to another non-drupal site. (All php) They have Single sign-on. Some info is stored in a cookie. So when a user signs in in the Drupal site and clicks the link to the other site he is automatically signed in in the next site. The new (or existing) user gets generated (or updated) automatically every time.
Now the problem:
Somehow some of my changes to a couple of pages regarding this authentication are ignored when I use the HTTPS:// link. It looks like it keeps checking the old files... Like they are stored in a hidden place? When I change to HTTP:// suddenly it takes the new modified files...
And it only happens to files about the authentication process. All my other commits to other parts of the second website work like normal. Just these couple of authentication files get ignored.
Does anybody knows why https behaves like this?
Could this be server caching or php caching ?
I'm going to post the answer to my own question so hopefully I can help someone else with a similar problem.
There were 2 files with the same name.
The HTTPS login file was in the private_html folder.
the http login file was in the public_html folder.
They both had the same name. So when I updated the http file and pushed it to the server, the https login file stayed untouched. And since the https login file was not in the git repository I couldn't find it locally, but only on the server...
Problem solved, so no caching problems at all.
I'm trying to change the URL for my site, by going to settings in wp-admin and changing both site url and wp url.
All seems well after I save changes, I'm able to navigate around my blog using the new url. However when I try accessing wp-admin I'm getting a redirect loop. I can still access the wp-admin login page with the old url admin site. In order to access my admin page again I have to login to my DB and reset both urls.
I've also tried to add this code with my urls to my wp-config file
define('WP_HOME','http://www.sample.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','http://www.sample.com');
Other information about my setup:
Openshift is hosting wordpress with the quick start app and proper alias have been added to my app.
Cloudflare is managing my DNS
I wouldn't think either of these factors would be the issue because the site wouldn't work at all if one of these were misconfigured, but at this point I'm drawing a blank. Was thinking maybe it might have something to do with wordpress forcing SSL for wp-admin?
Found It!
I love how when you gather all the information to ask a proper question it seems to line you up for the solution.
I'm also using http://wwwizer.com/naked-domain-redirect to redirect naked domain request to www using an A record in my DNS. All I had to do was turn off cloudflare's protection to this DNS entry.
I am really new to Drupal and playing around with this existing Drupal site.
I did a FTP transfer of all the files to my local computer directory. I currently got it on a Vagrant box and I can access the site via http://192.168.56.101/html.
I can do http://192.168.56.101/html/anything-but-user and it brings me to the proper area on the site. However I can't do localhost/html/user, because it redirects me to the website URL rather than the local URL.
I tried clearing the cache (with Drush). I scanned all files in the system and changed the web url to the local URL [not sure if I need to do any other command], and I can't seem to find anything in the .htaccess files that would lead me to this.
The href="/user I would greatly appreciate any advice or help in figuring out this solution.
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There was a module called "Secure Pages" that was causing the user and registration links to be locked and static to prevent redirects to phishing sites. I had to disable this module using "drush pm-disable securepages" in the terminal.
Some typical items you may want to check:
Check if you get the same problem using another browser. If with another browser it works, then it is pretty sure a cookie problem. To solve that, delete the cookie in the browser where you have the problem.
Make sure "clean urls" is enabled. Refer to "https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/165029/clean-url-leads-to-duplicate-url-after-migration-to-another-hosting/165044?s=1%7C3.9647#165044" for more details on that.
Make sure the value of "base_url" is set correctly (in your settings.php).
If module Secure Pages is enabled, then try to (at least temporary) disable that moduel to see if it helps.
Apparently, there was a mod called "SecurePages" that was causing the URLs to be static to prevent someone from changing them and redirecting users to a phishing site.
We built a website for a client using Wordpress. We used a testing server which always works well. Wordpress was hosted as a subdomain, i.e. http://wordpress.ourcompany.com. I have direct and full access to the server. In the etc/apache2/sites-available directory the file describing the site in question uses the final name http://clientsite.com as ServerName, our temporary subdomain (under which we have been building) is a ServerAlias.
When we were almost ready, we of course asked the client (who already had a website) for their domain login. We changed the DNS like always. It resolved, the site worked well. Although Wordpress kept redirecting (of course) to the subdomain-variant, we could enter the site with the full domain.
Now comes the culprit. I changed the Wordpress settings (siteurl and home) to match the new site. The front-end works brilliantly. However, the back-end is unreachable as long as the settings are in this way. The login page shows up, but just redirects back to itself. If I simply change the Wordpress settings (in the options table) I can log back in, but we want to rid the subdomain necessity (of course).
Things I've already tried (I'm not one to easily ask of your time):
Clear .htaccess
Clear my cache & cookies
Different computer, different browser etc.
Change only the home and not the blogurl value. Sadly, this corrupts some plug-ins
Remove all plugins
Comment some lines as instructed in the wp-login file
Naturally, everything I could find on codex.wordpress
Set the admin cookie path
So, brilliant collective mind that is Stack Overflow, what did I do wrong? DNS? Wordpress settings? Thank you in advance.
You need to go into the settings on the live server and change the URL's to the current site. You'll have to do this by accessing the database directly. It's the wp-options table, and there are 2 entries where the url's are the value. Update those. That should fix the looping.
I found an answer today : the user in the database didn't had the right permissions. You can look up in the error log if there are lines that indicates this.
I also had tried before : removing all content from htacess, reinstalling wordpress etc.