I am manually installing wordpress on a client's godaddy account. The client has requested I do not install it in the root folder, so it is has been uploaded via cyberduck in it's original wordpress folder. I created a MySQL database and changed the config_sample.php to config.php with all the appropriate information (database username and password).
I cannot complete the final step of the installation. When I go to website.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php it says "system cannot find the path specified". I think the website recognizes that wordpress is there somewhere because it is not a "missing page" message, but I'm not really sure what is the problem.
Is there something I need to do to the godaddy account to make it work? Or can wordpress only be installed in the root folder? Or does the IIS need to be updated to IIS7? Any help would be much appreciated!
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I'm making my first steps learning how to develop a Wordpress theme. I installed Wordpress in local, I designed a theme and now I'm learning how to export it to a live site.
I have the server address, the user and the password of my client. I downloaded filezilla, I logged in and I decided to make a subdirectory in his actual site to install the wordpress site. So it woud be something like this www.clientsite.com/wordpressnewsite.
The thing is that I suppose that I have to install phpMyAdmin in this subdirectory so like this I can import my database.
I downloaded phpMyAdmin, I saved all the files in my subdirectory and I created a config directory inside with all the permissions.
Now I tried to go to http://www.clientsite.com/wordpressnewsite/phpmyadmin/setup/ to continue the installation but it shows a white page without a message or something.
Do you have some recommendation?
Couple of things:
Its likely if you use cpanel you already have phpmyadmin. its not advisable to leave it in a accessible web directory, or hackers gonna get you.
If you have that phpmyadmin folder under your wordpress install its likely that it may not work as the htaccess file for wordpress is trying to send everything through wordpress.
In the phpmyadmin folder you could enter the following in the htaccess file.
RewriteEngine Off.
We've been working hard on a sandbox server. We installed WordPress to it from scratch. I created the database, and imported the previous database into it. The user and password both have been created.
Right now, our error is "403 Forbidden: You don't have permission to access / on this server". I can't access any of the files by typing in the server IP address,though we see and control everything as root via Putty, or manage it through FileZilla. Root is the owner of all WP files/folders.
I found this source: WPBeginner-403-Error-Fix and am currently changing the permissions on the files; the folders are done and the permissions are set to 755. File permissions are being set to 644. Out of all the resources we had referred to, it never mentioned WP requiring specific permissions. I got right onto that today. While this is running, I still get the message after the folder permissions were changed, and as the file permissions are being processed:
You don't have permission to access /wp-admin/login.php on this server.
We also had a bootstrap file located in the same place as the WP installation / contents (this was a test). The bootstrap is very much accessible: the CSS/JS folders with the supporting content can be seen if you type the ipaddress/directory for the bootstrap version... you can see the files and structure. If you type in ipaddress/boot.html, it runs it flawlessly. If we try referring to anything with WP, it does not like it and throws the 403 error.
There is no .htaccess, I read online it would generate via permalinks in the panel. But we can't even see the panel. It's currently .htaccessOLD (from when we imported our old WP contents to the dev server, from the production site), so there should be no interference.
None of us has installed WP directly, the guy who did it previously no longer is part of the company, so we are becoming lost in this process.
Edit: Plugins were disabled via renaming convention, however, WP actually regenerated this folder.
Edit (2): With the permissions set, and the plugin/theme deactivated, it still does not run due to 403.
Weird... my answer didn't post yesterday as I had thought.
So- we solved it. The permissions were set accordingly for all directories/files, the issue was the server configuration. Just triple check the server configuration file (usually httpd.conf on current servers) to ensure it points to the directory containing the WP contents.
If this is still a problem to some people, and you swear that the httpd.conf file is correct, it does not hurt to double check your directories. The directories should be permission 755. Files should be 644, excluding the wp-config.php (that ought to be set for permissions 455).
Thank you for helping us troubleshoot! We really appreciated it! :)
I am currently developing a WordPress project on a Windows machine (XAMPP) with my partner on a Mac (MAMP).
I installed WordPress on my local /htdocs, edited themes etc.
At the end of this all, I exported my WordPress database through PhpMyAdmin for my partner to install the whole project on his machine.
He has the /wordpress folder and imported the SQL with correct database names etc.
But whenever he goes to localhost:8888/wordpress it results in a 404 page not found error.
why?
The problem is, there are a lot of serialized things in the wordpress database, what you can not just find / replace.
I moved from localhost to production a ton of times wordpress sites.
So what you need to do is to:
Dump the database from local
Copy the files to production server
Import the database, but do not open the site in browser!
Download the script from here.
Unzip, and upload this into a wp-replace directory
Go to http://example.com/wp-replace/
Follow the instructions. Replace the olddomain.com to newdomain.com/wordpress (do not use http and trailing slash, add port if needs)
Go to the dashboard, login, and refresh the permalinks.
Done
I have a working WordPress website hosted at Hostgator which I want to move to Openshift. Till now I have done :
Downloaded the entire WP installation(including wp-includes, wp-admin,wp-content etc.)
Downloaded the original MySql database with phpmyadmin(both zipped and .sql format)
Installed fresh WP on Openshift, later I logged in into the database of this new installation and dropped all the tables(with phpmyadmin).
Thereafter uploaded the original database, successfully imported into the new Openshift database(with phpmyadmin).
Then I upload all original downloaded WordPress installation files into the Openshift one, overwriting everything.
Now I see a database connection error. I guess Openshift doesn't recognize wp-config.php details which consists of the Hostgator data(which I am confused as I don't know if I should be editing the one in the GIT folder or the one in the app-root/current).
Request a step-by-step process. Help appreciated.
My suggestion would be to use the Openshift Wordpress quickstart, and get a Wordpress application deployed and then just restore the DB.
What I need is a web server hosting just for saving large files on it and share it online, so today I downloaded XAMPP Control Panel V3.2.1 as I read on a topic that it can help me.
Actually, I don't have enough knowledge about XAMPP, can I use it to upload files with normal domain(like: www.mydoamin.com/myfile)?, how can I connect the server I build with a domain after purchasing it? and how can I upload files to this domain.
Till now I done all the needed setup, and here's what I get when I start the application:
Also I can use the "MySQL" in the webpage after log-in, and here's how the page looks like:
Is there any recommendation for other application that helps me uploading files to my own domain/server and share it, if this one isn't for these stuff?
XAMPP is software bundle containing cross OS solutions (X) for webserver Apache (A), MySQL database (M), and server-side language PHP (P) and Perl (P).
If you got a domain you need to redirect it to IP on which this XAMPP server works. To do it call/mail your domain registrator (a company that sold you a domain) and ask about it. It involves DNS (Domain Name Server) configuration - ask them how to change DNS to direct it to your XAMPP server.
PS To add files go to htdocs direcotry in your XAMPP instalation or whatever you defined to store files (and websites) and drop your files in there.
As I can see you are not experienced in that kind of things so maybe ask company that sold you a domain name about "shared hosting"? It's preconfigured ready to go server where you send files over FTP