Repeated Failure to Launch

  • Okay, in case it doesn’t become painfully obvious. I’m a total newbie to WordPress. Hopefully this is a slam dunk for you pros.

    I’ve tried six ways from Sunday to move my mostly-completed WordPress site from my localhost (using MAMP) to a subdomain on my server at Dreamhost. I have been through the codex, DH’s wiki, countless blogs, innumerable how-to videos (taking notes, no less), ad nauseam, and yet I continue to fail at moving this site.

    Having made about 300 attempts, I fairly well grasp the concept of what I need to do: get the files onto the new server, create a blank database, modify wp-config.php accordingly, and make sure the URLs resolve either by using the admin (before creating the database backup) or finding and replacing URLs in the .sql file, and import that file into the database you created.

    However, no matter what I do, when I take the steps and attempt to access the site, I get a “too many redirects” error (which seems common but poorly understood in WordPress – certainly by me), and when I attempt to access the admin, I get several lines of warnings and a sign-in box that doesn’t recognize my login (I’ve seen very little about this out there and as yet no solutions).

    This is the series of warnings displayed at the top of the admin login:

    Warning: fopen(/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/backup/.htaccess) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/ilium/marinaccess.ilium.com/wp-content/plugins/backupwordpress/functions.php on line 377
    Cannot open file (/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/backup/.htaccess)
    Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/ilium/marinaccess.ilium.com/wp-content/plugins/backupwordpress/functions.php on line 381
    Cannot write to file (/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/backup/.htaccess)
    Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/ilium/marinaccess.ilium.com/wp-content/plugins/backupwordpress/functions.php on line 385

    Okay, so I get that it’s looking for the .htaccess file that is on my local drive. Poking around –?at times with the wild abandon of a man with nothing to lose –?I’ve even been able to get rid of these by finding where that path is specified in the database and correcting it. The login looks much prettier without those warnings, but it still won’t let me in.

    Here, see for yourself:

    The not-live site.
    The not logging me in login.

    I have been at this for days, I’m sad to admit, and I’m beginning to go quite mad. I have started over many, many times only to end up arriving at this same proverbial rock in the forest time and again. Clearly, I’m lost. It’s cold out here. Can someone help me?

    Any advice on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.

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  • Thread Starter halfacre

    (@halfacre)

    Well, after more poking, I disabled the BackupWordpress plugin, which did resolve the error warnings, but I still can’t login or view my site.

    In FF:

    “The page isn’t redirecting properly

    Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

    * This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.”

    in Safari:

    “Safari can’t open the page.
    Too many redirects occurred trying to open “https://www.marinaccess.ilium.com/”. This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to open another page which then is redirected to open the original page.”

    Try deleting the content of the .htaccess file (back it up first!) to see if you can then login.

    After you login try going into the WP admin -> Permalinks -> Set to “month and name” or “custom” and enter /%postname%/, then save changes.

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