Moving WordPress Issue

  • So I built a WordPress site in a test directory within the root folder of this site. When i was ready to make it “live”, I changed both URLs in the general setting in the admin panel. I then moved the files into the root directory. The homepage is showing up, but when a link is clicked, I get the following error:

    Internal Server Error

    The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

    Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

    More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

    Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    This process has worked for me before. Any suggestions??

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  • When getting a 500 error, the only way to really figure it out is to look in the Apache error logs. Do you know how to access those? If not, who is your hosting provider?

    Thread Starter graphicenzo

    (@graphicenzo)

    I do not know how to do that. The hosting company is Kyvon.

    It looks like your host uses cPanel – do you know how to access cPanel? I think it’s typically https://yourdomain.com/cpanel or https://yourdomain.com:2082.

    Once logged in to cPanel, look for the Logs or Logging section, and the Error log. Before clicking it, try to do whatever it was that caused the 500 error to show up first, to make sure the error is captured.

    Then paste the error log here.

    Thread Starter graphicenzo

    (@graphicenzo)

    I did exactly what you suggested, but there are no errors logged.

    Can you post the contents of your .htaccess file? It should be in the WordPress root directory.

    Thread Starter graphicenzo

    (@graphicenzo)

    # -FrontPage-

    IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

    <Limit GET POST>
    order deny,allow
    deny from all
    allow from all
    </Limit>
    <Limit PUT DELETE>
    order deny,allow
    deny from all
    </Limit>
    AuthName 40dollarmule.com
    AuthUserFile /home/dollarmu/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
    AuthGroupFile /home/dollarmu/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /testbank/
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /testbank/index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    Can you backup that file (so you don’t lose the changes), and then replace everything in it with what’s below (kind of the “default” WordPress .htaccess)?

    # BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

    Thank you. I had the same problem and you fixed it! ?? Devin Humbert!

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