Problems moving a wordpress site to another host

Check your wp-config to make sure that all of the paths and database info are correct. Chances are something needs to be changed there. You may also need to go into your admin and reinitialize permalinks.

Unfortunately I can’t access wp-admin. Just getting a blank page with the url as the page title.

Can you please elaborate a little more on the paths in wp-config. Do they need to be something specific? I’ve never touched or changed paths in there before… so not sure.

Thanks for ya help.

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Have you looked at your url structure within phpMyAdmin? Could be some conflicts?

Hi soundmanjd,
How do I check the url structure in phpmyadmin?

what i would do is log into the database, click search, type in “www.cleanup.co.nz” click “select all” tables, and this will show you a list of tables containing this phrase.

Look for a table called wp-options. Make sure your “siteurl” and “home” are the same.

If you find searching doesn’t bring anything up in the wp-options tab that might be your problem! easy fix though you just have to insert the correct URL into both these tables.

Keep us posted!

Cool thanks, I gave that a shot.

Both “siteurl” and “home” match as https://www.cleanup.co.nz

I also tried deleting the .htaccess file, and now the home page shows a complete blank as well.

can you check your wp-config.php file to make sure that when you uploaded it it didn’t add any extra characters.

make sure there is nothing after ?>
e.g.

if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )
define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');
?>
.

the “dot” at the bottom will kill your site!

let us know!

Interesting, I checked the file and the ?> wasn’t even there…

if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )
	define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');

/** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');

I added it to wp-config.php but still no luck. There are also no spaces below ?>

I checked the other sites wp-config, the site which I moved at the same time, and that doesn’t show a ?> either, yet the site works?
Is it maybe the editor I’m using “Notepad++”, although that said I also checked the file in the File Manager in cPanel and the ?> didn’t show there either.

Hmmm.. this is quite strange, another thing you can do is rename the plugins folder to plugins2 then try refresh your site, if this doesn’t work then just rename it back to “plugins”.

what I would do is remove the ?> from the wp-config file at the bottom as this has not fixed the issue.

Error Reporting:
If you make a new file using notepad++ and name it tester.php then add the following code

<?
ini_set('display_errors','1');
ini_set('display_startup_errors','1');
error_reporting (E_ALL);include('index.php');
?>

then upload to your root directory. this should tell you what is wrong with the configuration… Fingers Crossed!

Problem solved:)

Thanks you so much for your help soundmanjd!

Problem was in the wp-config.php file.
There was a code of line in there which I’ve just deleted
define('WP_CACHE', true); //Added by WP-Cache Manager

As soon as I deleted it, the home page showed.

Then I reset permalinks and we are away laughing:)

Thanks again for the help. Really made me look at wp-config more closely.

*line of code – over excited

Glad to hear your site is back up and running. I find its usually plugins or wp-config that make the WordPress white screen of death! Lut us know if there is anything else.

Cheers.

Well it happened again…

I went to the wp-super cache plugin then to another page and all of a sudden I was staring at the white screen of death.

I disabled the plugins folder like you said, then removed the line of code from the config file again – which seems to be added by super-cache plugin.

define('WP_CACHE', true); //Added by WP-Cache Manager

Now the site is fine again. Must be a problem with the super-cache plugin. All other plugins are activated and working fine, other than super-cache.

Do Cache plugins normally add this line of code to the config file?
If so, I wander what else I’m doing wrong if its not working for me…

Will delete the plugin and download a fresh version and see if that makes a difference.

Deleted the wp-super-cache plugin and re-installed a fresh version, and it still caused the same problem – white screen of death.

Happened as soon as I went to the “Easy” tap in the super-cache settings to enable it.

Deleted the plugin again and now I’m working fine.

Thanks for the help again