ftschumann

Ok, that doesn’t give a lot of clues, but here’s what I would try.

Make sure that the you don’t have a file called home.php, home.htm or home.html in your root folder (the folder that you have installed WordPress in). Also make sure that this is no index.htm or index.html (but do not delete index.php).

Rename the plugins folder located inside wp-content (to “plugins_past” perhaps). This will deactivate all plugins. If the problem is still there then you can rule out plugins are the issue.

Let me know what happens.

You can install two different WP sites on two separate domains, but the second domain will not link back to any information provided in the first (or vis versa). In other words, they can be kept in the same database, but will be located on a different table within the database itself – they’ll behalf 100% like they are on separate domains despite being on the same one.

This would be done by changing the WordPress prefix when installing the second domain to the database (from wp_ to something else).

Hi Alice,

Just so I understand correctly, are you trying to create two completely different WordPress sites on different domains? Or make a second copy of the same data from the first domain on the second?

Might be a folder permission issue. WordPress starts the update but doesn’t complete it because it hangs when trying to replace/update certain files.

Have you tried updating WP manually using FTP?

Corrected: Ok, like I said, if you rename (not delete) the quotemaster folder first, that’ll deactivate the plugin.

I understand that you need IT, but doing this temporarily will at least let you check if this plugin is in fact actually responsible for this issue.

Best of luck,

Florian

What plugins have you installed? You could try renaming the plugins folder inside /wp-content/ to something like “plugins_past.”

That’ll disable all plugins, then try again.

This will rule out the possibility that a plugin is causing this through a compatibility issue.

Also, have you made any changes to the .htaccess file? Is there one both in the root folder and in the wp-admin folder?

Then the problem is that even though you have the WordPress files uploaded, it’s not actually installed on your database. You’ll need to run through the install process again I think by removing the wp-config file completely.

You’ll loose all data (and possibility the media library’s connection to your images). All plugins will still be there, but they’ll need to be reactivated; and finally, every setting you saved before (including theme settings, wordpress settings, plugins settings, user accounts, etc.) will be gone.

So in short, I’m sorry to say, I don’t think that there’s a away to do what you are looking for – unless someone can correct me one this.

A long and hard alternative, would be to make a second copy of your original database. Open the copy with an editor and remove all the pages and data that you don’t want in your new database. Then save it and upload it to your database via phpmyadmin. The issue here is that a lot can go wrong.

The fact that you can’t log in via an ftp client seems really odd and suggests that there’s a server issue. Have you tried contacting your hosting provider?