Server Migration Lead to Blank Page

  • Resolved infmz

    (@infmz)


    14 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    I’ve had to migrate my WP Network from one server to another (both are internal and not hosted by external companies). After following what I believe are all the necessary steps (backing up, copying, search/replace in DB, changing wp-config.php) all I see when I browse to my new domain/server is a blank page.

    Just to describe the process in a bit more detail:

    • I installed LAMP on new server (CentOS)
    • Installed phpmyadmin
    • Backed up wordpress installation via ftp & tar
    • Backed up db
    • Updated domain in database via search&replace
    • Moved wordpress installation to new server via unix tar command
    • Uploaded db via phpmyadmin
    • Edited wp-config.php

    And now I see a blank page.

    Just to make matters worse, I now see a blank page on my existing server too, though this seems to have triggered later. I’ve gone through my unix command history and other than tarring files across from one server to another, I haven’t done anything that ‘touched’ the wordpress installation.

    I’ve tried the renaming plugins trick but to no success. Also, the back end on my new server doesn’t seem to work either and the error message displayed reads,

    ERROR: Unknown error in LDAP Authentication.
    ERROR: Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress.

    Thanks in advance!

    P.S. I’ve searched a whole afternoon before posting this

    EDIT: Might be worth adding that I’m allowing ports access individually on the redhat firewall, so far only 80 (virtual host), 21, 22 are allowed.

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  • Thread Starter infmz

    (@infmz)

    No, it’s not. I worked that one out. I set my apache AllowOverride variable in the wrong part of the conf file. Pages are working but ldap still isn’t amongst other stuff… This is really frustrating, my dev server was perfect but doesn’t meet the virtualisation critera… Literally every step I’m taking has another hurdle in front of it.

    Thread Starter infmz

    (@infmz)

    Ok, Over the last night I decided to take a totally different approach.

    I realised that while VMware vSphere Client doesn’t ‘seem’ to allow you to virtualise Ubuntu 9.X and 10.X servers, it allows you to create one from scratch. So I quickly set one up much like my dev server and put my www/html folder in place and uploaded the DB.

    Now I’ve realised that it is actually tar or my bad usage of it that’s causing corruption to the index.php, because the same thing happened to me again!!!???

    After sorting out permalinks and everything, my site appears to work just as on the development server. I’m praying it stays this way. =)

    It seems to me that things worked more seamless on Ubuntu than CentOS, though that could be down to my own experience of course.

    Many, many thanks Andrea, Ipstenu and Curtiss. Job done just hours before my personal deadline!

    oh it may have worked more smoothly on Ubuntu yes. I’ve moved away from centos and onto Debian where I can.

    I’ll have a Coke, Ipstenu will have a beer. Dunno what Curtiss wants, but this round is on you. ??

    Thread Starter infmz

    (@infmz)

    Yeah, I myself use to use Debian on Web-Servers and given these issues I don’t think I’ll be using CentOS for a web-server anytime soon.

    Thanks again!

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