Pages not displaying after moving site

  • Resolved hopeace

    (@hopeace)


    12 years, 12 months ago

    Help! After I moved my site to another server, there were some redirect issues. Now my pages one the menu have stopped working. It goes to a blank page (there is some code like title and keywords, but nothing displays).

    I’ve read scores of postings and sites of people with similar issues, but nothing helps.

    Here is what I have tried to date (all unsuccessful):
    – Changing themes
    – Changing permalink setting to all other settings including default
    – changing permalink setting to custom setting such as /index.php/%post_id%/%postname%/ and /%post_id%/%postname%/
    – making .htcaccess file writable (666)
    – uploading old .htcaccess file
    – uploading blank .htcaccess file
    – deleting .htcaccess file
    – editing .htcaccess file with `# BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    # END WordPress`

    Can anyone help me with what i am missing??

    Thanks SO much!
    Keith

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  • Have you read through this? https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress

    If You Want Your Old Blog To Still Work

    Caution: Make sure you have a backup of your old blog’s WordPress database before proceeding!

    Part A – Activating Your New Blog

    Download your entire WordPress installation to your hard drive. Name the folder appropriately to indicate that this is your OLD blog’s installation.
    Download your database.
    Go back to your OLD blog and go to options and change the url (both of them) to that of your new site.
    Again, download your entire WordPress installation to your hard drive. Name the folder appropriately to indicate that this is your NEW blog’s installation.
    Download your database once again (but keep the old one). Upload this database to your new server. It will be easiest if you use the same database name and you create a user with the same login credentials on your new server as on your old server.
    If you used a different database name and/or user (see previous step), edit wp-config.php in your NEW blog’s installation folder appropriately.
    Upload the NEW blog’s installation folder to your new site. Presto, your NEW blog should be working!
    Part B – Restoring Your Old Blog

    On the original server, delete your OLD blog’s database (remember, you should have a copy on your local computer that you made at the very beginning).
    Upload your OLD blog’s installation folder to your original server, overwriting the files that are currently there (you may also delete the installation folder on the server and simply re-upload the OLD blog’s files).
    Upload your OLD blog’s database from your local computer to the server. That should do it!
    Another procedure for making copies of posts, comments, pages, categories and custom field (post status, data, permalinks, ping status…) easy to follow:

    Install a new WordPress blog
    Go on old blog Admin panel. Here, in Manage > Export select “all” in menu Restrict Author.
    Click on Download Export File
    In new blog go on Manage > Import, choose WordPress item.
    In the page that will be shown, select the file just exported. Click on Upload file and Import
    It will appear a page. In Assign Authors, assign the author to users that already exist or create new ones.
    Click on Submit
    At the end, click on Have fun
    Note: using this method if there are some articles in new blog (like hello world, info page…), these will not be erased. Articles are only added. Using the former procedure the article in new blog will be deleted.

    Thread Starter hopeace

    (@hopeace)

    Hi Sara, thanks so much for your help. I re-installed wordpress and it still continued to not work. And after days of tinkering, including making a mock new site in which I imported the wordpress data from my old site, and it turned out it was the “Laziest Gallery” plug-in that broke my site. Phew! Lots of learning occurred in this situation for me.

    Again, thanks for your help!!

    Keith

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