Transferring local to remote; admin "page not found"

  • Resolved rkread59

    (@rkread59)


    12 years, 10 months ago

    I developed a small WP site for a client locally, on my Mac, using MAMP. I moved the site to the client’s present host, Dotster, to replace her current, non-WP site with it. Unfortunately, the WP site isn’t working: I get “page not found” errors when trying to access the login page as well as the index.php page. The other site is still in place, and still loads when you access the url. I want to keep the other site in place until I know the WP functions properly.

    The WP files are in the /wwwroot directory, while the current site is in a subdirectory named with the site url, shoppingforhealth2011.com.

    Following instructions here, here and here, among other sources.

    I created a “dump” of the database, did a search and replace to change all the URLs from “localhost” to the live URL (http://shoppingforhealth2011.com), created a database on the new server, imported the dump file, and checked to make sure the options were correct. I then uploaded all the WP files, along with an updated
    wp-config.

    I’ve been researching for many hours to get to this point (and am grateful for all the hints I found here in the forum) but still haven’t worked it out.

    Thanks in advance for any help! The client is tired of waiting, alas!

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    Try resetting your custom permalinks back to the default setting and renaming your WordPress .htaccess file. If that works, then try reading Using_Permalinks before setting a custom permalink structure again. Documentation: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

    Thread Starter rkread59

    (@rkread59)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks t-p. Actually I never fussed with the permalinks on the local site, but I’ll look into that when I can actually log in.

    I did get feedback from Dotster support and I needed to move the WP files into the same subdirectory that the current site is in. I find this confusing and am not sure if I need to reconfigure my database records…

    I can now see the home page with /index.php (with a photo missing however) and the admin page but am getting a “Directory Listing Denied” error when I attempt a login.

    So I’m looking for answers on that one.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    review these threads and see if the info there can help you: http://wordpress.org/search/Directory+Listing+Denied+error?forums=1

    Thread Starter rkread59

    (@rkread59)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    Discovered this is a Windows server (set up by client) which does not respond to .htaccess file changes much. Found a “default pages” priority list in the Dotster C-panel and added index.php and default.php to the top of the list. Seemed to solve my issues of denied access.

    Now I’m on to the issue of photos not uploading and plugins not able to update becuase of “permissions issues”, from what I gather online. The Dotster people are certainly not going to tell me how to fix it.

    I do not know how to change permissions on files on a Windows system so i will have to post that question in another thread.

    thanks t-p!

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