I've read many questions on here but nothing seems to fit my scenario and try as I might, nothing seems to work so far!
My host unlawfully transferred my domain name out from under me resulting ine being unable to use the usual plugins to export my site and migrate it… Nominet enabled me to regain access to my domain name and I’ve transferred it out from 1&1 Ionos to a new host (GoDaddy) and went about setting up a hosting plan with them.
So, what I have is a webspace with Ionos with all the WordPress files and the database from my WordPress site which I’ve downloaded via FTP and my new domain name set up with a Linux server with GoDaddy.
The issue I’m facing is, when I upload the site files I downloaded via FTP and import the database, it keeps coming up with the “install WordPress” screen to set up a fresh WordPress site.
I’ve transferred over the htaccess file and now, it’s trying to download a file that doesn’t do anything (according to the text in the file when opened with notepad).
I’m in a right pickle. Wp-config is all set up correctly so far as I can tell pointing to the new host with the new database username and password.
Can anyone provide a step by step guide on moving from another server webspace to the domain name? All the guides online I can find includes migration whilst the previous site is still active. For me, this isn’t the case.
My issue is (probably) unique because it is effectively a local host set up on the 1and1 server where everything is still pointing to my domain name, I’ve downloaded this and assumed it wouldn’t be too difficult to just upload, reconnect the database and I’d be good to go but it doesn’t seem to be so easy as I expected.
So far, I’ve spent the last 8 hours toying with it myself, and since the 11th June dealing with the domain hijacking and spent much of that time with Ionos and GoDaddy support to try and get it all sorted and up and running… Its half 3 in the morning now and this post is probably going to be my last avenue for a solution before giving up on it! 😂
Really appreciate the help.
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In our company, we created a small Access database, which was in a network folder for everyone to access it.
After a while we decided to split it into a backend and a frontend. The new frontend is at the same location the original data was while the original data, serving as the backend now, is in a subfolder of the folder it used to be located in, so all relevant data is accessible to the the employees as it has always been.
The current problem is, that today, most of the time both the BE and the FE have their ".Iaccdb" files showing up and if you try to open any of the two, BE or FE, it will say, that a user is using the database in the exclusive mode.
I guess solving the problem at hand isn't the main issue here. What I rather like to know is, WHAT must have happened, to cause both files to behave this way.
I heard about this happening to either the BE or the FE, but never both simultaneously.
Never use a shared frontend:
Deploy and update a Microsoft Access application with one click.
I found out what caused the issue and in doing so also have to apologize for omiting one relevant detail: The old file I started with also had connections to Sharepoint lists.
Because of that, I couldnt just use the split function as it doesn't work if you're database is connected to Sharepoint.
So my workaround was to copy the access file in the upper folder as the new FrontEnd. In this new file/FE, i just created links to the old file's table, which now serves as the backEnd.
As I said, there were connections in the old file/BE.
When I first tried the FE, it worked properly. only when someone already opened the FE and another one wanted to do the same, the issue of users blocking each other appeared.
My solution was to get rid of the SharePoint connections in the old file/BE and now everything works smoothly.
We have a site running to drupal and migrated it to Squarespace. I have to retrieve some pages of drupal site but I can no longer view the site. Do you know any way to get the old content of website on drupal? Please know that we still have access to the drupal box. Any suggestions will be a big help.
Easiest way would be to make the old Drupal site available again through the browser running on a different domain like old.example.com, login into the admin panel and start copy/pasting content.
If you know your way around your computer, know the IP address the old server is running on you could for the time being change the host file of your machine to send requests for your site to the old server and get access to the site that way.
Migrating content by automating the process is also an option, but it is not only time consuming, it requires in depth knowledge of both platforms so is mostly a very expensive solution if you are not able to do this yourself.
But if I read your question, I think the first option is the easiest option. Get a hold of the technical person/party of the server the site is running on and get them to make the site accessible on a different domain.
I have a database that I have created for a friend of a mine that he would like to store his data and work directly from on a daily basis. Recently I came across ExcelforMySQL and thought this would be a perfect AddIn for him to use.
I have successfully linked the AddIn to the database (Xampp Local connection) and this loads up fine but when I move the database onto a webserver that I have with ionos(1and1) and enter the Host Details along with the Username and Password, I get the following error:
Connection attempt failed.
Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts.
When I click Show Details:
All it says is One or more errors occurred.
Would really appreciate it, if somebody could advise on how to fix this, as I really want to be able to work live on the data and update the changes from the user directly in Excel if possible and this addin looks like it does that.
If anyone has any other suggestions then I am happy to hear them as not fussed as what is used as long as it works.
Thanks
I had a similar problem to yourself with a number of my own sites/DB's hosted on Ionos. After a bit of searching through their help they state that access from outside your Ionos package is not possible. Unfortunately we're stuck with their hosted version of PHP My Admin in the control panel.
Although I have found that MySQL-front works great and bypasses the Ionos restrictions. Google is your friend...
Maybe a bit late for you but for others who come across this question as I said google is your friend...
A friend of mine got in touch because his wordpress site was showing "error establishing database connection" (the website has been working for 2 years up until now). I checked out his config pinged the database IP and found it timing out. I told him many times he needs to contact his host but he never knows what i'm on about so gets frustrated and just expects me to work magic.
Anyway i visited an address i got sent by i assume the dev/previous dev which took me to phpmyadmin could log into the database, all data is still there, great.
i cannot get the ip as he wont contact the host. so i tried the IP of the phpmyadmin site, no luck (i assume its some sort of reverse proxy as i believe he has shared hosting)
so i just try the 0.0.0.0 meta-address. this works fine
i also notice the database name, user and password has been changed by someone since then. so i plug these new credentials in. Visit the website, great its back up.
however when i visit the site it makes me go through the "wordpress install" which i find weird as i assumed the website would just work. the site just shows the default wordpress page. his website is now gone. i don't use wordpress because its wordpress. so my knowlage is now very limited at this point. Iv looked at the database and i can see in the {websitename}posts table that all his content is there still. for example all the paragraphs for the services he provides, image links etc. i look in wp-content/uploads/2018/01 and all the pictures the website had are still there.
When i go to the wp-admin UI and click on pages tab, there are no pages. all his previous ones are gone. i go to media tab and there no images i go to appearance and activate the theme that his dev used. still nothing. its as if its a fresh install.
as all his content is still i the database and all the files like images are still on the server etc. there must be a way to get his custom pages back?
i'm not sure when he last had someone touch wordpress or any code but is it safe to say the hosts making this change and whoever changed the database name and user is to blame? (he is going to want to know what went wrong)
if its any sort of help here is the theme that is used
any help is much appreciated, thanks
UPDATE
i can see in the {sitename}posts table the post_title column has the name of his pages in post_status is publish or inherit comment_status is closed ping_status is closed
I wanted to create a website that would be like a dropbox of sort, which just has files that me and my organization can access. I wanted to password protect the website, just a simple username and password. I have my own domain. I have been looking all over the web to find how to do this(I am a beginner) and found that using httaccess and htpasswd would be used to secure a website similar to what is shown here: http://www.htaccesstools.com/articles/password-protection/
But I cannot seem to get it to work. I am using the s3 bucket and putting the httaccess and htpasswd file in the same folder as the index.html file. Do you know how I would get my site to have a simple password protection(thats not seen in the source code or by typing in the html)? I am not sure if I am finding the directory correctly or not to implement this password protection correctly. Thank you for taking the time to read this and hopefully this makes sense!
Anyone else had this issue?
Amazon AWS alone won't do it. htaccess and htpasswd are also not the right tools for what you want to do.
Get yourself a cheap hosting account with a company like hostgator or godaddy or namecheap or any other that will host your web page and give you PHP and MySQL.
You cannot accomplish what you want just using javascript/jQuery. Those languages run on the browser, but you want to store your files on a server. Therefore, you need the language that controls the server - that is usually PHP. (The other popular solution is ASP, which is by Microsoft and runs on costly and complex Microsoft servers -- PHP is free and runs on (free) Linux and is therefore what ALL of the cheap web hosting companies provide. MySQL is the (free) database that is analogous to Microsoft SQL)
Next, watch a video tutorial on creating a PHP / MySQL login system, such as the ones over at:
phpAcademy (now called codecourse, apparently)
theNewBoston.com
You need to learn more about:
PHP sessions
Ajax
jQuery
MySQL (possibly)
On a basic website, you can stick your files into directories and control who can access those directories by whether or not they are logged in.
You can determine if a visitor is "logged-in" or not by asking for a username/password and setting a session variable. Session variables are just variables that are stored on the server, rather than on a user's own computer (of course, that wouldn't work since every visitor has his own computer and your files are stored on a central server -- so that is where the security (variables) must reside, right?)
Anyway, in a weekend of video watching and trial-and-error you can probably get something cobbled together that will do what you want.