So I do mainly design-based work for a small company. Graphic/Web (more so advertising). I have maintained and updated their decent-sized website for awhile now, but now we are switching hosts.
I have been asked for passwords to the wordpress blog databases, as they don't have them (neither do I). With that, I was asked to check the web configurations and look for database connection strings with the passwords. If not we'll have to reset them. I can setup wordpress blogs, write HTML, CSS and overall design - but databases and backend stuff is not my forte.
Can someone give me an idea of what it is I should be looking for, and where?
You should find your database password in the WordPress configuration file, wp-config.php. This is usually located in the root of the site but it may have been moved outside the web root.
Can you gain access to the FTP? Assuming so, look for a file on the main area where you have wordpress called wp-config.php. You'll be able to find your db connection stuff in there.
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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 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.
Here is my situation:
I have two hosting sites with a domain each, each with Sugarcrm infrastructure. I started with one hosting site and started creating a database through Sugar. Then, I started a SECOND hosting site with a new domain, and I believe I have linked the two databases accidentally. If I change a value in the database on one site, it gets reflected on the other.
So, the original domain/hosting site is expiring, and I would like to move the SQL database over to the new site permanently. I have made a backup of the database from the original site and have it on my desktop.
My questions:
1. Can I just drag the SQL file into the new site (I use FileZilla) database location and everything will be OK?
2. I cannot find the location in file manager of the new site where I would drag this database into!? I use goddady, and the newer site uses cpanel.
**Other problem: I have accidentally upgraded the newer sites SugarCrm version, and have created huge problems because the original site is not upgraded, and the sites do not like that very much as the database is shared. There original site is unreachable (it says you cannot use the newer version database with the old Sugar version), and the new site has visible problems but is workable.
As you can tell, I am a totally inexperienced n00b, and am learning as I go. I have spent weeks setting up this database, and would appreciate any help on maintaining its integrity.
Thank you very much!
Tom
I'm assuming you're using MySQL for your database.
Unless your tables are all MyISAM tables, simply copying the database files won't work.
Whenever you want to move a MySQL database it's a good idea to dump the database, move that file over, then recreate the database. Read up on the mysqldump command.
If you're using Oracle or something else, I would think a similar technique would be desirable. Basically dump your database to a backup format that your database server can use to recreate your database. Don't just copy database files around.
I know the "merge tables" question has already been asked in a variety of ways, but I can't seem to find an answer to my specific question.
Here's my deal: I've been designing a WordPress site for an organization for four weeks. When I began designing I took an export of the database and imported into my local development site. In the meantime, this organization has naturally continued to post things and receive/approve comments on their live site. On the local side, I have also created posts, edited pages, changed widgets, etc during development. So now that we're ready to launch the new site, I need to figure out how to merge these last four weeks of database changes from both the live site and the local site without losing anything on either side. How is this done?
If there have been inserts to both databases, then unfortunately there isn't a good way to merge. If your database contains the latest edits for the Post IDs that are shared then you can export them to XML and then import them into the other site.
This is done with the WordPress Importer plugin which can also be installed by visiting /wp-admin/import.php, the export can be done on /wp-admin/export.php. You can also remove any conflicts from the XML file manually, but make sure that you keep it well-formed.
Before I start I want to say this is my first site I am uploading that has a database - so I will appreshate any help whatsoever!
What site is the best for webhosting - the cheapest and most reliable? I'm not sure how big my database will get - but I need to have a lot of space! (just in case).
I, of cource, don't want my site to break down, so need a very reliable well known site. I have an account already with 1and1.com - and know about Godaddy.com but neither of them are really THAT cheap - if you know what I mean. There is one site I found : "http://www.000webhost.com/" - does this seem alright?
Also, when I upload my site and database - do I have to leave my computer on full time to allow my database to be added to etc?!! Is there some way I can upload the database from my computer - so it's not anything to do with my computer ... or something.
As you can tell - this really is my first site - and I have really know idea.
Im using MYSQL, Coldfusion and Dreamweaver btw.
So again, any help would be great. thanks.
Cheap, Reliable, Easy.
In general, you can only pick two from the above.
Check out bluehost.com.
No, you do not need to leave your computer on. You definitely want to put the database on their server, not yours. It sound like you need to do some research on that.
Upload the CMS files from your local system and then perform an export of your MySQL database (software like phpMyAdmin makes this dead simple) and then import it to your new database on your new host. Modify the configuration of your CMS (database host, username, and password will need to change) and check that it connects and reads the database properly and everything works right.
That way you don't need to leave your computer on all the time - you're literally moving your entire website to their server.