UPDATE: Real links below to illustrate my issue.
Stick with me on this, because it is a valid question.
In the old days I could have danhoover.org which was a wordpress site and I could have danhoover.org/new which was another wordpress site and both would load fine. I could even point danhoover.net to the danhoover/new directory and the page would load just fine no matter how you got there. You could use danhoover.org/new or danhoover.net and it would load fine. All the permalinks would work. No problem.
Now, however, there is some sort of voodo going on. If a wordpress site is in the danhoover.org/new folder and configured to be "danhoover.net", navigating to the folder as danhoover.org/new will just get you a 404 error.
In addition, going to danhoover.org/new/index.php will get you a 404 error.
There is some sort of voodoo going on that makes you use the url defined in the configuration for the site to work properly. What is it? Is there any way to manually update the permalink structure so it loads properly with either domain?
I guess I'm just confused as to what in the world wordpress is doing that is different than any other php site that prevents it from loading.
UPDATED LINKS:
I have a folder /a which has campscoreboard.net pointed to it.
I have a folder /a/c which has www.c.campscoreboard.net pointed to it.
Wordpress links:
You can go to www.campscoreboard.net/c and the homepage loads
You can go to www.c.campscoreboard.net and the homepage loads and all
the links work.
But if you go to www.campscoreboard.net/c and click on a link like the
Hello World article, you're redirected back to the root for some
reason.
Vanilla PHP Links
You can go to www.campscoreboard.net/c/test.php and it loads fine.
You can go to www.c.campscoreboard.net/test.php and it loads fine.
Only the wordpress urls are redirecting back to the root when loaded via www.campscoreboard.net/c
I've not tried to install WordPress inside WordPress before, but ...
In the wp-config.php file of the relevant WordPress installation, you can set the correct URL and HOME directory manually using:
define( 'WP_HOME', 'http://danhoover.org/new/' );
define( 'WP_SITEURL', 'http://danhoover.org/new/' );
I usually add these after define('WP_DEBUG', false);
Hopefully this helps.
This shouldn't be related to the home configuration as all that would do is forward you to danhoover.org, not give you a 404.
This is likely a server permissions issue where your server is blocking access to the folders. This can be set either on the servers main config file (e.g. httpd.conf) or in a .htaccess file which can be placed in any folder to which one wishes to change its (/subfolders') permissions.
You can read some more here.
A quick way to help you diagnose this, create a static html file and place it in danhoover.org/new call it index.html and place some text in the file then load danhoover.org/new in your browser and see if the text you've written in the file appears, if not then you know it's a server/permissions issue, not a Wordpress one.
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I have this weird problem with my Wordpress Website. I worked on localhost and afterwards I tied to get my site online but i modified some configuration files and i don't know witch one is the fault. I am using XAMPP. The website right now is seems to not load js and css. Also on console log it gives 404 error for not fiinding the files it needs.
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do you use gzip compression or such as it? if yes try to disable it, and make sure you have the right path
First, check that the file permissions are correct.
Also, if you have changed anything on your .htaccess files, overwrite them with the default ones: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress
Also it's always a good idea to go to the permalinks page (/wp-admin/options-permalink.php) to update the links of all dependencies to the new URL.
I have ran into quite the issue.
I have been developing a website hosted locally with MAMP. I always used localhost:90/wordpress/ to access the website and it was worked up till today. A few hours ago, I began the process of moving the website from local server to an actual domain. Unfortunately, I wasn't checking URLs and ended up changing some information and working on localhost myPHPadmin panel as opposed to the domain myPHPadmin panel. Long story short, I changed so much before I realized my mistake, then proceed to change even more, and now I am lost and don't know what to do. At this point, I am just trying to get access to my local hosted website so I can start over again.
The issue:
Everytime I goto localhost:90/wordpress, Chrome redirects me to localhost/wordpress and my website doesn't show, it says that the website can't be shown.
I have tried going into my local hosted myPHPadmin panel and changing siteurl and home to both say localhost, but no luck. Interestingly, when I change both to wordpress, it shows an unformatted version of my homepage (Kinda like just straight HTML), with limited images, however if I click any links then it brings me to wordpress/about and it doesn't exist. If I change it to just localhost:90, it shows my unformatted wordpress Page not found page. Can't access wp-admin with any of them.
I have tried using a replace tool recommended in another thread, but searching for localhost and replacing with localhost:90 yielded no results for me. I have also double checked the .htaccess folder and it is correct. I have cleared cookies/cache and still nothing. I am desperate.
Any help is much appreciated.
I am not sure what the issue is here so I am going to shoot in the dark here and hopefully one of these methods will get you out of your predicament. Since you say that you have reverted all the changes you made and still your website is inaccessible, even wp-admin.
You can try doing the following:
Change the siteurl and homeurl links in your PHPmyadmin to localhost:90/wordpress or whatever it was before when your site was running and functional.
In your Wordpress root folder, there is a file called wp-config.php. Open that file and find:
* #package WordPress
*/
Add after:
define('WP_HOME','localhost:90/wordpress');
define('WP_SITEURL','localhost:90/wordpress');
You will replace all localhost:90/wordpress if need be by which I have written in my codes to what the link was before; when the site was functional.
Check the file thoroughly and through Find/Replace function of your favourite text editor for no duplicate entries.
Now try accessing wp-admin. If you still cannot access your wp-admin, take a backup of your current wp-admin folder.
From a fresh Wordpress of the same version as yours, copy the wp-admin folder and replace it with your current wp-admin folder. Now try to access wp-admin again.
If you are able to access it and login, refresh your Permalinks. See if your site is accessbile again after doing these steps.
Update:
Since none of those steps worked for you, try doing the following:
Delete all the Wordpress core files from your localhost:90/wordpress EXCEPT wp-config.php and your wp-content folder.
Now from a fresh Wordpress folder, copy the files and folders EXCEPT wp-config.php file and wp-content folder. Paste them in your localhost:90/wordpress folder.
Try accessing your website now.
Update 2:
Try uploading your Wordpress to your online server and change the values of siteurl and homeurl in your wp-config.php file. We defined the localhost addresses in the file, now you will update those with your domain details.
Take a fresh backup of your database from your localhost and import it into a new database in your online server. Update the homeurl and siteurl in your newly imported database.
Update your wp-config.php with the new database name and username and password of the account you have given all privilages to access the database.
Try accessing wp-admin now.
If successful, update your Permalinks and then try accessing your website.
This will tell us if your localhost is faulty.
I'm managing a website running on WordPress for one of my clients. I've done most of the setup for the site myself, including the WordPress installation, and somewhere along the way a random favicon has "slipped in". Also, oddly enough, it only shows up when visiting the "root" of the domain (please enlighten me if there's a more proper term); that is, if you go to one of the subpages the favicon no longer shows up on the tab or in the address bar.
Please have a look at the site here. I have access to the server root where all the files are located, and I have tried searching the entire site directory (and file content) for stuff like "fav", "favicon" and ".ico". There's no link to the favicon in the site <head> as far as I can see.
How can I find out where the (link to the) favicon is located so I can remove it? Are there other ways of including a favicon than using <link> in the head that I can look into?
It might be just in your browsers cache. re-bookmarking the page might help...
There might also be a fallback icon defined in the server config (which you might not be able to access). see https://stackoverflow.com/a/2729435/1468708
How about you just add a favicon.ico file to the webroot?
I have a WordPress website that's been running for almost two years now. All of a sudden, it started to show a blank page on any public page. The admin part on /wp-admin is still working without any problems.
A http request is successful (status 200), but the returned content is completely empty (not even an tag).
I'm not really a PHP/WP expert. A simple web search got a lot of results, but mostly old stuff and never any clear conclusion of the problem's source, i.e. how to fix it. I already enabled WP_DEBUG in wp-config.php, but this only shows debug messages in wp-admin, but the public page remains blank.
Where should I continue searching?
The problematic website is http://lolkitten.org/.
Update
I just found index.php inside my public_html, which was empty. After writing something into it, it appears on my home page! Also, there's a directory /home/<user>/home/<user>/public_html/ which looks like complete nonsense to me.
Update 2
The Problem solved itself after upgrading to Wordpress 3.8. I don't know why, but it seems like some files (like index.php) were messed up and got replaced by fresh ones in this update.
Possible solution / workaround
I've had this problem again. This time, my index.php was completely empty. In my dashboard, under Dashboard > Updates, I clicked on Re-install Now and it fixed itself.
Most likely the wp-content folder can’t be found. When you login to the admin does it state that the templates can’t be found in red text in the center of the page right when you login?
I recommend going into your wp-config.php and adjust—or add—the following constants:
define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://lolkitten.org');
define('WP_HOME', 'http://lolkitten.org');
define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', '/path/to/your/wp-content');
define('WP_CONTENT_URL', 'http://lolkitten.org/wp-content');
Fairly confident that the key to fixing this will be the WP_CONTENT_DIR setting. You need the full path to the directory in the file system to your wp-content folder. So if you have a standard Unix setup with lolkitten.org in it’s own directory that path would be:
/var/www/lolkitten.org/wp-content
And the WP_CONTENT_DIR value would be:
define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', '/var/www/lolkitten.org/wp-content');
EDIT Adding info on how to determine your script’s absolute path if you do not have SSH access to the server, but have FTP access of some sort. Just FTP to the server & create a test file called test.php and just put the following code in it:
<?php
echo dirname(__FILE__);
?>
Now load that into your browser to get the full path:
http://lolkitten.org/test.php
__FILE__ is a magic constant in PHP that will echo the full/absolute path of a PHP script.
try deactivatinhg all the plugin once.
And if you can not access admin panel do the following to deactivate plugins
In the database - wp_options table
change the entry to a:0:{} on option ID 35- active_plugins
As far as i see error, it is because of share-buttons plugin.
Try removing share-buttons plugin from plugin folder and then check again.
If still problem exists then remove all active plugins and check again.
I too had same issue and it was because of plugin. I deactivated plugins one by one and my site was recovered from crash.
I am very new to php (in fact about 2 days old). After getting ripped off by my last webhost I have decided to move my website to a different host. A friend has been helping me do this as he has a little info but we are now stuck and I have tried finding a soloution on google but most answers are way over my head. My site is a php site with a mysql database. We have moved the database and ftp'd the site and everything is now working on the new server except one thing - my site was designed originally to use clean urls? When I go to my shop page (ie: mywebsite.com and click on the shop link - mywebsite.com/shop/ (shows in the bottom left of my browser) I get a page not found error, yet when I type in the url mywebsite.com/shop.php the page displays fine. In addition, if I go to mywebsite.com/shop/shoes/ (another link which shows the preceding link in the bottom left hand corner) I get a page not found error. Also if I type in mywebsite.com/shop/shoes.php in the address bar I also get a page not found error even though the page shoes.php exists on the ftp server in a folder called templates - if I go to mywebsite.com/templates/shoes.php it shows up) I understand this is called clean urls and I need to add an .htaccess file to sort out the issue. I have looked on the ftp area of my old host and cannot find this file but have been told it is probably hidden. I have been told by my new provider that mod-rewrite is available on the server but I have no idea how to write this htaccess file. Can anyone please give me a step by step on how to do this as I am not a coder.
Additional Details
I have the following files in my root directory: index.php, shop.php, checkout.php, completed.php, contact.php ... I then have a folder called templates and in this folder I have: shoes.php. clothes.php, coats.php ...
The issue I am having is that most of the php files in my root directory already have href-links? pointing to places like mysite.com/shop/ and mysite.com/shop/shoes/ so when I open up the home page in my browser and hover over the links these are the addresses I see and when I click on the links I get page not found as the borwser must be looking for the links in the wrong place. (these links worked fine however on the last host I used). I understand I need an htaccess file to re-direct these links to the correct places. - ie the link for mysite.com/shop/shoes/ is actually linking to a page called shoes.php located in root/templates. I understand this method was used to tidy up the urls?? ie: instead of having mysite.com/templates/shoes.php the urls shows mysite.com/shop/shoes/. I have looked at the code within some of the php pages in the root and they all have lots of links to these 'false' addresses - ie: mysite.com/shop/shoes/ when the actual file should be at mysite.com/templates/shoes.php. I don't want to go through each file one at a time as they are hundreds of links, thus the reason for trying to make this htaccess file. Thanks for your time, Dave
Try to find an option on your FTP client software to show hidden files.
The name of this file is .htaccess (dot htaccess), that is probably the reason you're not seeing it. If the old site is working then the file is probably there. You could also contact somebody to send you the file via e-mail, IM, etc.
You do not need mod_rewrite or .htaccess for this.
Turn on multiviews in your Apache configuration. This will allow you to omit the .php extension from your URLs.