A funny thing happened on the way to the server

  • Resolved mathrafal

    (@mathrafal)


    16 years, 10 months ago

    I have built a testing site on the server in a folder that is a subdirectory of the root. A little difficult to put into English. It looks like this

    www.
    |—— testing folder

    Pleased with the result, have uploaded it to the root directory of the same webspace. so that all files and subdirectories appear in just the
    www. root folder. However, on trying to see my handiwork, I am left with a blank page.

    Has anyone an idea concerning this?

    I did not delete the site from the testing folder, since I am a little too cautious.

    Both the new site and the testing site are using the same database.

    Jon

    Norway

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  • Thread Starter mathrafal

    (@mathrafal)

    I did wonder about the two sites (all be they the same, from two locations in the same www folder) causing a conflict and temporarily disabled the wp-config.php file in the testing folder, but the results are the same.

    J

    Not sure if your intention is two blogs but might want to see Installing_Multiple_Blogs.

    Thread Starter mathrafal

    (@mathrafal)

    No. Egentlig, the intention is to have just one, but I have kept the other there as insurance, as it were, until I am happy that the site is running ok.

    Okay, then make sure the ‘new’ wp-config.php has a different $table_prefix in wp-config.php.

    Thread Starter mathrafal

    (@mathrafal)

    Could you possibly say a little more about what you mean?

    the intention is to have just one, but I have kept the other there as insurance,

    Recommend you make it simple. Delete the test folder, DROP the database tables.

    Then visit https://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php to install.

    Thread Starter mathrafal

    (@mathrafal)

    I have resolved this part of the problem, with your help. Many thanks.

    However, I am having problems importing the sites xml file, which I backed up before deleting the old site.

    is this a case of permissions. Should I provide a 0777 permission to all folders from the root to the uploads folder?

    wp-contents is intended to be 777

    Thread Starter mathrafal

    (@mathrafal)

    Many thanks

    I have one more question. Sory to be a fool!

    I have imported the xml file and everything seems to be running as should, expecpt that I get the following message when I try to manage my pages:

    Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/tynset/public_html/wp-admin/includes/template.php on line 507

    Could you please help?

    Jon

    Thread Starter mathrafal

    (@mathrafal)

    As a matter of fact, I am getting error messages left, right and centre. It seems that I must delete this site and start from scratch. A shame since this has taken me three weeks to develop, but the problem with anything like this, where one file relies too much on a comma in the wrong place, the whole thing falls to pieces.

    WordPress must be wonderful for people who know everything there is about php, but when it comes to novices such as myself, the documentation is sadly lacking. There are too many writing and contributing as if everyone was on the same knowledge base as them. Thus, they make assumptions that we know what they mean with strings and markups and whatever.

    Fed up. Going back to simple html

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