Transferring files from wordpress subdirectory

Have a look at https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

thanks. but that helps. but someone had told me i “need to EXPORT the staging DB via phpMyAdmin (or whatever you use to manage the MySQL for them) and then IMPORT on the new location via the same tool.”

is this true? how come there’s no mention of the database in that tutorial?

No, the phpMyAdmin EXPORT/IMPORT is only required if you move to a new domain name — actually, technically to a new subaccount, account or web host.

The requirement for the database move is based on whether or not you can still access the old database from your new location.

ok, so i tried to transition it up to the root directory, following the tutorial. the only thing that seems to be appearing is the stuff in the left nav bar: https://www.goldcoastchamber.com/

i’m guessing hte problem has something to do with the message at the top “Rendering of template head.php failed”. what does this mean and how do i fix? thanks!

by the way, i’m now getting the following message at https://www.goldcoastchamber.com/:

Warning: main(/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/b/r/i/brineu21/html/index.php on line 17

Warning: main(/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/b/r/i/brineu21/html/index.php on line 17

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/content/b/r/i/brineu21/html/index.php on line 17

the line in my index.php file that i was supposed to change now says “require(‘/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);“

please advise. thanks.

and i dont know if it will help, but here’s a look at what files i have on my remote site: https://www.goldcoastchamber.com/pics/sample.jpg

additionally, i can no longer login to my wp-login page: https://www.goldcoastchamber.com/wordpress/wp-login. for some reason the wp-login screen looks very different now and when i enter my name and password, i get an error screen: “Page Not Found. The page you tried to access does not exist on this server….”

please please please help!!!! thanks.

Heh, I regged just to post an observation for ya, although I may use WP soon here.

Your paths ain’t setup right mate.

Check the URL/Server Paths for the CSS/scripts that’s failing.

This one in the source is incorrect:
https://www.goldcoastchamber.com/wp-admin/css/login.css

When I tried this URL, it found the CSS for your Admin area:
https://www.goldcoastchamber.com/wordpress/wp-admin/css/login.css

I’m guessing other paths are similarly confused. ??

The main site works using https://www.goldcoastchamber.com/wordpress/ but the CSS isn’t there either.

You main banner won’t show at https://www.goldcoastchamber.com/wp-content/themes/wp-andreas01/img/front.jpg as it’s set now, but it IS at https://www.goldcoastchamber.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/wp-andreas01/img/front.jpg

See what I mean?

If ya can’t login to edit your configs, just use FTP and a Text/HTML Editor like Notepad, don’t use Word or Wordpad…they can mess up encoding & formatting.

I like EditPlus personally as it can FTP and edit directly.

GL,

~DG

thanks.

so on my remote site, should I have everything in a wordpress folder subdirectory? or all my stuff should reside in the main root directory?

and whichever instance you suggest, how should i structure this line in my index.php file? “require(‘/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);”

and should that index.php file be in the root folder or wordpress subdirectory?

please advise. thanks.

so i think i need to backtrack a few steps. and i re-uploaded my original files back to the original wordpress subdirectory. before i deal with transitioning things to my main root directory, i’d like to at least get the subdirectory issues straightened out.

as you can see, https://www.goldcoastchamber.com/wordpress/ and https://www.goldcoastchamber.com/wordpress/wp-login, things are out of whack. the pages aren’t finding the css files and content files that should be feeding them. i think it has to do with the fact that before i started messing with things, i was in the admin screen and changed the URIs from https://www.goldcoastchamber.com/wordpress/. But now that my admin screen (i.e. wp-login) is screwed up, i cant even log back in to change them back.

please advise how i should proceed from here??? thanks!!!!

ok, making some progress now. i got everything but the pictures from the postings and pages to appear: https://www.goldcoastchamber.com/

is there any way to get the pics to appear without going into each page and posting, one by one?

please advise. thanks!

actually i got the pics fixed!!!!

but on my Member Directory page (https://www.goldcoastchamber.com/?page_id=36), the links to the different categories do not work.

any idea how to fix that one? please advise. thanks!

nevermind, i got that fixed too. thanks.!