Site hanging after a server move.

Yeah, stick with an index.html and temporarily remove the dot from htaccess.

Basically, just trying to see if standard HTML is working as an index. If so, we can move on to seeing if PHP is a problem in general, and so on.

I usually just load up:

https://smaarthorses.co.uk/readme.html

(3.5.2 – ouch!)

Ouch, yeah, might as well just install WordPress 3.9.1 files while you’re at it. ??

I renamed .htaccess and index.php – uploaded index.htm and suill get
The requested URL /index/ was not found on this server.

Very strange – it’s like there is a redirect somewhere which I thought was in .htaccess but plainly is not.

Ok, it’s probably in index.php. ??

Try just an index.html file with some basic text content, like “Did this work?”

I’ve renamed index.php index.bak default.php and uploaded a plain index.html and it’s still redirecting!

Directly addressing the index.html file works:

https://www.smaarthorses.co.uk/index.html

What’s in your apache vhost file?

</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 37.122.210.206:80>
ServerName smaarthorses.co.uk
ServerAlias https://www.smaarthorses.co.uk
DocumentRoot /home/smaartho/public_html
ServerAdmin [email protected]
UseCanonicalName Off
CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/smaarthorses.co.uk combined
CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/smaarthorses.co.uk-bytes_log “%{%s}t %I .\n%{%s}t %O .”
## User smaartho # Needed for Cpanel::ApacheConf
UserDir disabled
UserDir enabled smaartho
<IfModule mod_suphp.c>
suPHP_UserGroup smaartho smaartho
</IfModule>
<IfModule concurrent_php.c>
php4_admin_value open_basedir “/home/smaartho:/usr/lib/php:/usr/php4/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/php4/lib/php:/tmp”
php5_admin_value open_basedir “/home/smaartho:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp”
</IfModule>
<IfModule !concurrent_php.c>
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
php_admin_value open_basedir “/home/smaartho:/usr/lib/php:/usr/php4/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/php4/lib/php:/tmp”
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_admin_value open_basedir “/home/smaartho:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp”
</IfModule>
<IfModule sapi_apache2.c>
php_admin_value open_basedir “/home/smaartho:/usr/lib/php:/usr/php4/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/php4/lib/php:/tmp”
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_disable_suexec.c>
<IfModule !mod_ruid2.c>
SuexecUserGroup smaartho smaartho
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_ruid2.c>
RMode config
RUidGid smaartho smaartho
</IfModule>
<IfModule itk.c>
# For more information on MPM ITK, please read:
# https://mpm-itk.sesse.net/
AssignUserID smaartho smaartho
</IfModule>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/smaartho/public_html/cgi-bin/

# To customize this VirtualHost use an include file at the following location
# Include “/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/2_2/smaartho/smaarthorses.co.uk/*.conf”

</VirtualHost>

There must be more configuration elements in here:

/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/2_2/smaartho/smaarthorses.co.uk/

I’d compare the contents of any of those files in that directory with those found in adjoining directories/domains.

Cpanel (yeuch) does have a habit of creating a big jumbled mess of confusion!

Many thanks. I will take a look at that.
cheers.

The site has a shop. It’s run by zen cart. I deleted the database annd then went to smaarthorses.co.uk/shop and got a zen cart error message re the missing db. So i created the database using the username and password etc in the config file. I then went to phpmyadmin and imported the saved shop db into the new db.
Straight away smaarthorses.co.uk/shop now hangs just like the main url So it has to be somethign to do with the database contents?