Making the new site live

  • I THOUGHT it would be absolutely trivial and idiot-proof to just point the site at the wordpress folder and have it come, up but it appears I was mistaken. I’m absolutely SURE this is all intuitively obvious to y’all, but I’m apparently doing SOMETHING wrong. I’ve now read about 4 different things that all say largely the same thing when the wordpress is already in a subfolder, so what am I missing?

    My site is in the wordpress subdirectory. I went into the WP general tab and changed the URL from https://www.dperezphoto.com/wordpress/ to just https://www.dperezphoto.com.
    Then I copied the index.php file to what appears to be MY root folder on Bluehost.
    Then I edited the index.php file, and changed the line that says:
    require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/wp-blog-header.php’ );
    to require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’ );

    I did NOT copy any .htaccess files since I’ve never set a permalink for anything, and have no idea what “pretty” permalinks are. As far as I know, I have coreFTP set to show hidden files, and there’s nothing that looks like .htaccess in the wordpress folder.

    Fired up a browser, put my URL in, and the new home page displayed…
    Clicked an icon (ACFA Cat Shows) on the home page, and got the top level album in the photo seller plugin, just like I thought it would. Unfortunately, selecting an album on that page gets me a display with no thumbnails.

    Is there some bizarre thing I have to do to get everything to actually work? Is it the phantom .htaccess file? What DO I need to do to get this up and working?

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  • Unfortunately, selecting an album on that page gets me a display with no thumbnails.

    Sounds like because you changed the URL it can’t find your images. Although when I click on ACFA cat shows I do get a page with thumbnails, but when I click them I get a white screen – what is the expected behaviour?

    It all looks like it is working properly to me.

    It may just be a caching issue on your end.

    What you did is exactly correct – htaccess is not required if you are not using permalinks so that is normal.

    Just to be safe, one final thing I would do after everything you already did, is login into the dashboard and got to Settings => permalinks and just click the save button.

    When checking, try checking using chrome incognito mode to avoid any caching

    Thread Starter SkyyKorat

    (@skyykorat)

    The site you’re seeing isn’t the new one. I can’t leave the non-functional site up.

    On the “new” site, if you click on the “ACFA Cat Shows” (which is a square picture of the ACFA logo), you’ll get an album with thumbnails. But, selecting any of those gets you to a page with all the images missing.

    I did exactly that on the permalinks – just went in and didn’t change anything, but hit Save… Hasn’t made any difference.

    I’ll set the new site live right now in the hope that someone can tell me what I need to change to get it to work.

    Thread Starter SkyyKorat

    (@skyykorat)

    As near as I can tell, I THINK it’s something in the plugin since it’s ONLY gallery thumbnails and images. I got a reply from the plugin people and they had me rename a .htaccess file that was all the way down in the plugin upload folder… That APPEARS to have gotten things working as near as I can tell for the moment…

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