I'm totally baffled by a recent problem I'm encountering. I've moved the MySQL database of a WordPress site from one server to another. After this, my client reports that they cannot access their site from their offices, but can access it anywhere else.
I've told them to clear cache, history, cookies, etc. No luck. Site just doesn't work in their office and works fine when they are anywhere else. They continue to receive timeout errors.
Site is visible to me on any browser, logged in, or logged out.
Could this be related to the database move? Is this is an unrelated issue that just happened to coincide with this database move?
Your help would be appreciated as I'm dumbfounded.
Check the hosts files or firewalls on the PCs that can't get to the site.
If they can get to the site away from the office, check the routers at the office.
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There are two parts to my question of "unattenedness".
The ability to connect to the remote desktop without also having to magically be at the remote site to click the generate key button.
Likewise, not having to be at the remote site to click "Continue" every 30 minutes to prevent the connection from disconnecting.
The fact that I can't seem to find a simple answer when searching the web for help (like being able to use a trusted pin), or even more complex solutions like generating certificates of trust, probably means, "it don't do that".
However, I'm hoping that the problem is that I just haven't figured out how to ask Google the right question yet. Hopefully someone here has some experience and insight into this problem.
Here's what I was doing that made it not not work:
When I downloaded and set up Chrome Remote Desktop (CRD) from the the Chrome Web Store, the chrome account I was logged in with was different on the remote and local computers (I use multiple email accounts for various tasks). This blunder meant that, even though I could change the active account from within CRD, the client and host were not actually configured with the same base Chrome account (email address). So I was being prevented from using the remote access functionality on the “Remote Access” page of the extension (app). Once I corrected that, I was then able to connect using the pin I was prompted to create during setup.
To be more specific:
I completely uninstalled CRD on one of mine boxen
From within the Chrome browser, I logged into same Chrome account as the other box
Then I went back to the Chrome Web Store and downloaded/installed CRD
Then the “Remote Access” page showed the remote computer and let me use the direct access pin
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 am moving a clients website from one dedicated server to another. (UK2.net to Fasthosts.co.uk) and would obviously like to check everything has transfered correctly before making the final switch to avoid any downtime.
I have successfully transfered everything across such as MySql database, webpages etc. I have set-up the CPanel for the user as well and so now would like to check everything is working. I have manually gone through a lot of the CPanel to check things like the page locations, database etc but will now look at the physical side.
I know that I can view the site live in-browser following with http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/~username (substituting IP and username where needed) but this is where I encounter my problem. The site shows up fine but when clicking to a specific page some of the MySql queries are not working correctly, basically data is not showing up where it should be and I am wondering if this is just because it is a preview rather than the full thing or is there more to this? I have not altered anything of the website just transferred it across to the new server.
I know that this seems a bit long-winded to explain my problem but felt that it needed some back story! Thank-you in advance
We have just started to deploy our app over four schools with the server located in one school. The Three schools accessing from outside the system are working fine, but when you access from the school hosting the server, its like the wrong HTML is being returned. In one case, a user had a page returned to her with a different users userid displayed on the page. It also keeps going back to the login page even though your still logged in. Outside of the school all's fine.
Any ideas ?
This is one of those problems where it's difficult to pinpoint the cause without actually being there, or having lots more information. My first thought is that maybe you're using ip based virtual hosts and the NAT (Network Address Translation) is interfering with it.
Edit: could you tell us what sort of caching you have in place? Users seeing each others “logged in” pages without even logging in themselves is a sign that you're caching things that only authenticated users should see.