Testing server with IP address before migration: 404 error
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I have designed a website and would like to make it live, but first I need to check to make sure everything is correct.
Here is where my new site is located. http://192.185.154.31/
Testing site location http://sanbornwebsites.com/shepherdgate
But no matter what I do, I always get ERROR 404 – PAGE NOT FOUND
Here are some articles I read first before coming here
http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
https://codex.wordpress.org/Login_TroubleBrowser
I frequently purged my browser cache after each step just to make sure.Database
I followed all the steps for uploading the database.
Then I reassigned all of the website addresses directly to the IP address in the database tables. I will reassign this after testing.UPDATE wp_Shepherdgate_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, 'http://sanbornwebsites.com/shepherdgate', 'http://192.185.154.31') UPDATE wp_Shepherdgate_posts SET guid = replace(guid, 'http://sanbornwebsites.com/shepherdgate','http://192.185.154.31'); UPDATE wp_Shepherdgate_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, 'http://sanbornwebsites.com/shepherdgate', 'http://192.185.154.31'); UPDATE wp_Shepherdgate_postmeta SET meta_value = replace(meta_value, 'http://sanbornwebsites.com/shepherdgate', 'http://192.185.154.31'); UPDATE wp_Shepherdgate_posts SET guide = replace(guid, 'http://sanbornwebsites.com/', 'http://192.185.154.31/'); - this pushed everything down to root. UPDATE wp_Shepherdgate_postmeta SET meta_value = replace(meta_value, 'http://sanbornwebsites.com/', 'http://192.185.154.31/'); - this too. UPDATE wp_Shepherdgate_my_calendar SET event_desc = replace(event_desc, 'http://sanbornwebsites.com/shepherdgate', 'http://192.185.154.31'); UPDATE wp_Shepherdgate_my_calendar SET event_link = replace(event_link, 'http://sanbornwebsites.com/shepherdgate', 'http://192.185.154.31'); UPDATE wp_Shepherdgate_my_calendar SET event_image = replace(event_image, 'http://sanbornwebsites.com/shepherdgate', 'http://192.185.154.31');Cpanel
I am able to access CPanel here http://192.185.154.31:2082Wp-login
when I go here http://192.185.154.31/~shepgate/wp-login.php I am redirected to my old site.
When I “View source” the page code is filled with references to the testing site location.I was getting some errors at http://192.185.154.31/~shepgate/wp-login.php so I deactivated some offending plug-ins by renaming their folders. I can deal with that problem later.
wp-config
The wp-config.php file seems to be set up with permissions properly.define('DB_NAME', 'websites_Shepherdgate'); define('DB_USER', 'Yup this is the correct user'); define('DB_PASSWORD', 'the password is correct'); define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); (This is, as it should be.)I added the following lines to it – to force this IP until I can get it working (yet it still doesn’t do the job)
define('WP_HOME','http://192.185.154.31'); define('WP_SITEURL','http://192.185.154.31');I also aded this line up top but it didn’t help.
define('WP_ALLOW_REPAIR', true);Adding this line was an important part of the puzzle. I’m confused why it works when I use the _ at the end here but not in my DB_NAME.
$table_prefix = 'wp_Shepherdgate_';Unique Keys and Salts are fine
I tried several of the suggestions from https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL such as using the functions.php file but it still wouldn’t work. I put that back again.
.htaccess
I tried deleting my .htaccess file. Didn’t work
I tried adding this code to the top of that file. Didn’t work.<Files wp-login.php> order deny,allow Deny from all # whitelist IP address allow from 192.185.154.31 </Files>Home router
I am at home on a personal server so I tried adjusting the NAT table. I turned my firewall completely off for the test. It didn’t work, so it’s back on.I’d sure love to get this site working but that’s all I can think of to try. I’d appreciate any help you can give me to point me towards the solution.
Thanks,
Seanplatform: wordpress
useragent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/534.59.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.9 Safari/534.59.10 – Also testing using Chrome.
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