Moving blog to new server – Failed

Since you say you read the Codex, and did the “test before you switch” part, I’ll start with the basics.

As usual, an actual link would help if you can provide one.

Can you roll back to the old server?

Can you get your blog working on the new server as a fresh but empty install? That means no old posts and no plugins. Did that work?

Once that’s done, and you have a empty but working WordPress blog, try importing your old server’s WXR export file from your old blog. How did that go?

If that’s not the problem, what steps did you follow to import your old DB into your new server? Did you use myphpadmin or CLI mysql? Can you confirm that the data is all there?

Lastly, is your server’s apache error_log tossing any errors?

Sorry i forgot abou the link, here it is https://www.volvo-passion.com

yes, i did a fresh but empty install, works just fine

I used phpMyAdmin for exporting > importing the DB. The DB data is there, i actually edited the paths from phpMyAdmin.

I dont see any errors in the Error Log.

Well just inporting the posts is not enough for me, i really need my custom theme and the plugins, but i somehow beliave that the problem is related to one of the mods, probably the Cache ones.

Is there a way to remove plugins without access to wp-admin ? So i will start and remove some plugins to see if something happens.

Backup your files again before you make changes, this is always good advice.

The easiest way to remove plugins without admin access is to rename the plugins directory to something else such as plugins-old. Create a new wp-content/plugins directory and you’ll be empty of plugins. See if that gets you farther.

You are using lightspeed as a web server and https://www.volvo-passion.com/readme.html works fine, so the server is good. I think that PHP is tossing errors since all we get is a blank page, but I don’t know where lightspeed stores it logs.

I renamed the plugins directory and created another emplty one, still blank pages, i really dont know what to do anymore, i have uploaded and reinstalled too many times, i’m sick of it, no error no nothing, it just pisses me off.

I have additional websites that are using PHP and they work perfectly, so this php thing happens only with my blog.

There could be a few things causing the problem.

1. Is your new server running Windows or Linux? If Linux, read further

2. You should disable the plugins in the database as well if you didn’t disable them before attempting the move.

https://educhalk.org/blog/?p=38

3. If you didn’t change to the default theme before attempting the move, then you will want to make sure whatever theme you had as the active theme is in the wp-contents/themes directory on the new site.

I know you said you have seen “all” the tutorials, but if you haven’t seen the following, it may be worth a look…everything would apply except for changing the url in the db dump since you are not changing the web address.

https://educhalk.org/blog/?p=50

So i tried everything in those tutorials, deactivating the plugins using phpMyAdmin, using the folder renaming option, changed the paths ( not the url ) in the DB dump using that text editor, everything, same thing, blank page.

Is your new server running Windows or Linux? If Windows, search here for problems with 2.7 on Windows servers.

Its Linux, Cent Os to be exact. The previous host was also running Linux.

Ok, i actually quit my blog due to that stupid problem but today i said, what the hell.

I knew it was something related to the cache system, and even if i disabled all the plugins and removed all the .htaccess files the problem still persisted, so i searched for documentation regarding the WP-SuperCache plugin and i came across this.

1. Clear the cache in the backend page and then deactivate it on the plugins page.
2. Remove the Super Cache mod_rewrite rules from your .htaccess file.
3. Remove the WP_CACHE define from wp-config.php
4. Remove the files wp-content/advanced-cache.php and wp-content/wp-cache-config.php
5. Remove the directory wp-content/cache/
6. Remove the directory wp-super-cache from your plugins directory.

And believe it or not, that plugin and its files spreaded il many folders was the problem, immediately after following the above instructions my blog came back to life.

So problem solved.