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1. wodger
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Hi,

   I am hoping someone on here can help. I have no experience with WordPress but I have been asked to urgently port some websites from a hosting company that are going under.

   All I have is a copy of the website files and the mySQL database dump. I have managed to get the database restored and have PHP working under IIS. I have also managed to get the front page of the sites to display correctly (although I did have to install PHP 4 to get it working. PHP 5 gave me loads of errors about undefined variables). I am not sure what version of wordpress the sites are running as it is not included in the meta information nore in the settings panel.

   The problem I have is that I cannot get anything other than the front page to load. Initially if I followed any of the links on the homepage I got a 404 not found error. I read something about URL re-writes so I included the relevant code in the web.config and now the links "work" but only re-open the home page. I have also tried using the /index.php?p=xx where xx is the page ID I want to view. This again just shows me the home page.

   I have logged in to the admin page at /wp_admin/ but I get very limited pages on what to control. I see nothing about permalinks or any way to turn them on / off. The only settings I have on the admin page are Site Pages / Text Settings / Reports. I see nothing like the pages I have seen people suggesting in posts I have read.

   Is anyone out there able to point me in the right direction on this? I think I have gone as far as I can and I am pulling my hair out!!

   Many thanks

2. songdogtech
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Try http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite

   Then reset permalinks in Settings>>Permalinks

   Look in the theme functions.php file or plugins to see if you're being restricted access.

   Current WP version is listed in /wp-includes/version.php

3. wodger
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Hi,

   Thanks for responding. The details in that article are what I have done with IIS already.

   I dont have any option on the admin page for Settings > Permalinks. Just the ones I mentioned in the original post.

   I dont have a functions.php file but I do have a large func.php file. What should I be looking for in there to see if access is restricted?

   Again I dont have a wp-includes/version.php file. I think this may be a very old version of wordpress.

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