Site slow and full of errors after going live

  • I prepared the relaunch of our website from another CMS to WordPress. So, during the preparation, the installation was in a password-protected folder. Everything worked well.
    After going live (rename the index.php from the old system, remove the password protection from the folder and copying the WP .htaccess and index.php) the whole installation became terribly slow and full of errors, like an Internal Server Error (“The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Your administrator may not have enabled CGI access for this directory.”)
    The only information from the provider was, that there is “heavy load” on the page, not telling where exactly this came from.
    I guess the problem might be connect with the server configuration, like a .htaccess oder file/folder rights. Do you have any idea?

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  • Were you using a different domain during the development such as staging.yourdomain.com?

    I have had similar headaches when launching sites that were on a different domain during development and the first thing I usually do is migrate the database again by following these steps.

    1) download the database from the staging server
    2) in a text editor do a find replace of the staging domain where you find the staging domain and replace it with the live domain. save these changes
    3) upload the modified database file to the live server.

    Hopefully this resolves the issue you are having. If not please let us know and we will try to help you further.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    n a text editor do a find replace of the staging domain where you find the staging domain and replace it with the live domain. save these changes

    Do not do that. There’s serialized data in the some of those fields and using a text editor will break them.

    Use the plugin “better search and replace”, the wp-cli “search and replace” command, or the utility from interconnect.it (https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/) to modify the database

    Although I have heard of others having issues doing it the way I described… I have never had any issues doing it that way and almost always have problems using the plugin method Steve described.

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