So we have a dedicated server and we installed a single instance of Wordpress on this URL (using URL as example): AnytownBoatTours.com. Started themes and plugins etc... and the owner said the URL needs to be the other way around: BoatToursAnytown.com.
So, we pointed the new domain to existing instance of WordPress (since they are on the same dedicated server), and then I followed wordpress instructions by going into Settings -> General and changed both the Wordpress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) to BoatToursAnytown.com (with no "/" at ending on either).
So, everything appears to be fine. The Wordpress site seems to have accepted the URL change and I've logged in and made changes to the home page and theme. Then I came across a weird error with sub pages I'd created before the switch. The error occurs in all pages except the home page. When I click on any of the pages except home and edit them, when I hit update or preview buttons, the preview goes to a 404 message. I thought that is weird so I started looking around.
I discovered that the content directory is still pointing back to the old URL. The Wp-config Location is: D:\Websites\AnytownBoatTours.com/wp-config.php and the Content Directory is: D:\Websites\AnytownBoatTours.com/wp-content
So obviously the change in General Settings didn't work. I was hoping someone could help me figure how to go from here.
Thank you
Update your permalinks even if it's not changing them, you just need to click the save. Settings > Permalinks and press Save Changes. This will more then likely fix the issue as I had to do it when I recently migrated a clients site.
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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 have a Wordpress install which has a problem in previewing drafts.
Sorry, you are not allowed to preview drafts.
Browsing the website, the url is
http://example.com
The Wordpress files are actually stored in http://example.com/wordpress
So the Wordpress address url in settings is http://example.com/wordpress and the site url is http://example.com/ as it should be.
In wp-admin though, it redirects to
http://example.com/wordpress/wp-admin
An issue arises when you want to preview a post or page, and it says you are not allowed to view drafts.
The error shows up and the url looks like,
http://example.com/hello-world/?preview_id=1&preview_nonce=cf457b8a3e&post_format=standard&_thumbnail_id=-1&preview=true
But if you manually go to http://example.com/wordpress/hello-world/?preview_id=1&preview_nonce=cf457b8a3e&post_format=standard&_thumbnail_id=-1&preview=true
Then, everything works as intended. Stumped.
More details:
There are no plugin conflicts, nor theme conflicts.
This is not the typical Wordpress imlementation, because there is something that is pointing to calling the Wordpress index as it is not always called by the app.
It calls require_once $path . '/wordpress/index.php'; why it does so is another story.
But, this is never even called, because wp-load decides to throw the error before then. Additionally, browsing the site with the urls, does not show the admin bar. Only when you manually add the directory.
I suppose it's possible this is somehow related to the __() added to Wordpress 4.7.
I am trying to get a client's WordPress site copied over to my company's server to use as a development site. I've ran into an issue when trying to log into the site's administrator panel; it redirects us to the existing site's URL instead (ending up as [OLD SITE]/[NEW URL]/wp-admin). Additionally, trying to go to any page other than the homepage gets a 404.
I've tried editing the wp-config and defining the WP_HOME and WP_SITEURL there, with no success. In a previous attempt we used a backup tool that was meant to replace references to the old URL with the new URL, and on another we ran queries and checked through wp-options in the database to be sure that we caught all of the old references. Still redirects to the old site.
We've tried restoring from two backups, Akeeba and BackUpWordPress. Our current attempt is a copy we've downloaded directly and then uploaded (with an imported SQL backup).
Another odd thing I've noted is that changing one of the URLs in the database causes more issues. Mainly, if I update the URL of 'wordpress-https_ssl_host' in the wp-options table, the theme breaks. Not sure where to go with this from here.
I'm always succesfully using the following script : search & replace:
https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/
in order to update a wordpress site url.
Just copy the provided code in a directory under your site, then launch the provided index.php in a browser: the database infos should be automatically determined. Then specify the old and new urls and click on "Run" !
Don't forget to remove the created directory afterwards.
For solving this issue you have to change siteurl in database wp_options table
option_name = siteurl where
option_value = YOUR OLD SITE URL
change your old site url and update it with your local developement site URL
Hope this will help you..
We found the problem; as it turns out it was nothing to do with anything from the default WordPress files. The client was using an extension called WordPress HTTPS, and apparently that was causing a conflict somewhere. We renamed the extension's folder to disable it and everything ran fine. I imagine it was overriding what we were setting in wp-config.
I have site hosted in http://blog.example.com now i have moved it to location http://blog.example.com/myblog folder. Have changed site location from wp-options table and it works fine in new locaiton. but my problem is that when i update any page or post from admin panel, page redirects to http://blog.example.com url. I am not able to update that page.
Note: I have used visual composer for page editor.
Pls suggest me setting that i need to change.
I would make an export of your database and find and replace http://blog.example.com with http://blog.example.com/myblog in your favorite text editor to make sure that all mentions of the old URL have been removed.
Afterwards you can also find and replace http://blog.example.com/myblog/myblog with http://blog.example.com/myblog to change URL's that were already changed back.
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.
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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.