Website Problems With WordPress

  • LawrenceUWD

    (@lawrenceuwd)


    11 years ago

    Good Evening

    I am in desperate need of help with a WordPress website. I have been battling for two weeks now and my client is getting fairly upset.

    I took my client’s HTML site and migrated the site to WordPress, however it’s now problem upon problem when the site is uploaded. Locally everything works 100%.

    Here are my problems when the website is uploaded:

    When uploaded to Windows hosting:

    1) The site displays the main page perfeclty, but the other pages are giving a 404 not found error.

    2) When logging into the admin panel it only displays text to the left and gives me a modsecurity issue when clicking on anything.

    The site is located at http://www.apocalypsegames.co.za/

    When uploaded to Linux hosting:

    1) Everything displays to the left of the website. It’s using some CSS and ignoring other CSS. The site is located at http://www.unrealwebdev.co.za/

    The site should be displaying the content in the center of the website as can be seen on the site located at http://www.apocalypsegames.co.za

    The windows hosted site is not a big worry as my client is using Linux hosting. I need to get the site working for Linux hosting ASAP.

    I have no idea how to fix this 🙁
    My client’s original website is located at http://www.verticallogic.co.za for reference as to how the site should look.

    Any help with this would be much appreciated.

    Thanks!!!

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  • Martin Robbins

    (@santeven)

    11 years ago

    Definitely stick with the linux. This article should be helpful. the site_url and wp_home are easy to misconfigure when you move a WordPress to second host.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years ago

    [When uploaded to Windows hosting] The site displays the main page perfeclty, but the other pages are giving a 404 not found error.

    Windows doesn’t support mod_rewrite, so it’s a bit more complicated to get Permalinks working. See this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite

    [When uploaded to Windows hosting] When logging into the admin panel it only displays text to the left and gives me a modsecurity issue when clicking on anything.

    mod_security is controlled at the server level and it sounds like it’s been set far too aggressive. If you choose Windows hosting, I recommend reporting this to your hosting provider ASAP.

    [When uploaded to Linux hosting] Everything displays to the left of the website. It’s using some CSS and ignoring other CSS.

    The theme is looking for CSS at both http://www.unrealwebdev.co.za/wp-content/themes/verticallogic/style.css and http://www.unrealwebdev.co.za/css/style.css

    As you can see, neither exist.

    First, make sure those files exist where the theme thinks they are, next make sure the two URLs at Settings -> General in the blog’s Dashboard are correct.

    Thread Starter LawrenceUWD

    (@lawrenceuwd)

    11 years ago

    The theme is looking for CSS at both http://www.unrealwebdev.co.za/wp-content/themes/verticallogic/style.css and http://www.unrealwebdev.co.za/css/style.css

    As you can see, neither exist.

    First, make sure those files exist where the theme thinks they are, next make sure the two URLs at Settings -> General in the blog’s Dashboard are correct.

    Hi James

    Both of those files are present in the correct locations on the server.
    Both of the URL’s in the WordPress panel is set to http://www.unrealwebdev.co.za.

    This is very strange indeed.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years ago

    Are the file’s permissions set to 644 inside directories set to 755?

    https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions

    Thread Starter LawrenceUWD

    (@lawrenceuwd)

    11 years ago

    Are the file’s permissions set to 644 inside directories set to 755?

    Hi James

    The files in the public_html root folder are set to 644 permissions with the directories set to 755. The files inside those directories have their permissions set to 644

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years ago

    Ok, I wonder if something else is conflicting.

    Try deactivating all plugins. If that resolves the issue, reactivate each one individually until you find the cause.

    If that does not resolve the issue, try switching to the Twenty Fifteen theme to rule-out a theme-specific issue.

    Thread Starter LawrenceUWD

    (@lawrenceuwd)

    11 years ago

    Ok, I wonder if something else is conflicting.

    Try deactivating all plugins. If that resolves the issue, reactivate each one individually until you find the cause.

    If that does not resolve the issue, try switching to the Twenty Fifteen theme to rule-out a theme-specific issue.

    Hi James

    It looks like it is a theme issue. Funny thing is the site was working perfectly on one of my windows hosted domains until I gave my client’s hosting company access to see why it does not work with the linux hosting on their side. Now nothing works properly. The site displays fine in chrome locally and not in other browsers anymore.

    I can for the life of me not remember how I got it to work perfectly so retracing my steps is somewhat out of the question.

    If you take a look at the site located at http://www.verticallogic.co.za, what in your opinion is the best way to migrate that to WordPress while maintaining the exact styles from that site without the pages being PHP theme files? My client wants to edit this site in the visual editor inside WordPress which is impossible to do if the site is migrated into php files.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years ago

    I’d suggest doing your best to build a theme based on the existing design from the group-up, using a starter theme like http://underscores.me/

    Here’s a great tutorial on that: http://themeshaper.com/2012/10/22/the-themeshaper-wordpress-theme-tutorial-2nd-edition/

    Alternatively, there’s https://roots.io/sage/ though I don’t know of any tutorials for that one except the documents on its site.

    Martin Robbins

    (@santeven)

    11 years ago

    Lawrence, thank you, this has been a wonderful challenge. I think I have it sorted out, alas, only for the worst.

    It looks like it is a theme issue.

    I believe you are correct, please would you post on pastebin.com your files index.php and functions.php from your theme folder /wp-content/themes/verticallogic/ … And then post the pastbin urls here?

    @macmanx Yes, _s would be the a fine choice from the ground up. You up for a quick challenge? Have a good look at the source on all three sites and see if you can figure where I’m going with this on how Lawrence might have gone wrong to begin with?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years ago

    You up for a quick challenge? Have a good look at the source on all three sites and see if you can figure where I’m going with this on how Lawrence might have gone wrong to begin with?

    Honestly, I’m a volunteer, and it’s 11:30 PM. In short, I don’t have the time or energy to play a game of figuring out something you’ve apparently already figured out. 😉

    Plus, these are support forums. 🙂

    If you have figured out the problem, please just tell us.

    Martin Robbins

    (@santeven)

    11 years ago

    I suspect there is no functions.php … and that index.php is merely a copy of index.html … and all the other files*.php are copies of files*.html … I’m guessing not one single WordPress tag in the entire theme … nor any WordPress plugins activated … a really fine html / js site that just can’t live and breathe inside WordPress (as it has been put there) ?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years ago

    Ah, that could very well be it, though I can’t figure why the linked CSS files in source are 404ing if the files are indeed there as the OP claims.

    Thread Starter LawrenceUWD

    (@lawrenceuwd)

    11 years ago

    Hi santeven

    There is a functions.php file. There must be something with the CSS/theme that is not working properly. It’s telling me that the CSS is missing, however the files are in their correct locations.

    santeven, fine observation! There is PHP files for the pages which were my theme files. However the client was not happy with that as those files are PHP and if he wanted to edit website content he would need to edit the code. He wants to edit the content from the WordPress visual editor, so I disabled those files. They are not being used. Only the index.php, header.php and footer.php files are used. My header.php, footer.php and index.php files are set up (correctly I assume). I am not a WordPress guru at all.

    The pages are done in the WordPress visual/text editor. I have used HTML code for the page content along with a RAW HTML plugin set up to not have WordPress format HTML content by itself. I also have Visual Builder installed for my client to edit the pages visually as he would like.

    Here are pastebins of some of the files. Let me know if there are other files you would want to have a look at 🙂

    functions.php http://pastebin.com/xUS8c8W3
    index.php http://pastebin.com/L1sc8mgX
    header.php http://pastebin.com/994tZ2A7
    footer.php http://pastebin.com/cGJwCiaD

    Martin Robbins

    (@santeven)

    11 years ago

    I’m not familiar with RAW html plugin nor Visual Builder; they may be confounding my analysis. And possibly also your understanding of WordPress and its visual editor.

    I wrote the following example before noting the above. Would suggest try it with those two features disabled or uninstalled:

    <?php // /wp-content/themes/verticallogic/page-example.php outputs the "Page" created in dashboard having slug /example/

get_header();

	echo '<h1>';
		the_title();  // outputs the dashboard "title"
	echo '</h1>';

	echo '<div class="entry-content">';
		the_content(); // outputs the visual editor "contents"
	echo '</div>';

echo '</div>'; // class="main" was opened in header.php

get_footer();

?>

    Beyond that, I’d need next to see directory listing of /wp-content/themes/verticallogic/

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