ClassicBikeNut

Why would anyone suggest releoading the two folders as a ‘fix’, without warning that everything that already have will be lost and that you have to start all over again?? Surely that is relevant?

So, for dummies: I dlete everything except the ‘content’ folder and the ‘config.php’ file.
THEN re-upload a fresh WP
THEN… fresh install??
Surely that will trash everything again… new passwords etc, so the owners change on the folders etc = complete chaos?

Maybe I should do it again? But then I risk having to star all over, surely/ (it’s what it looks like now already, I suppose…)

NO! I had already clicked the ‘put’ on the ftp before I realised that I should have deleted the two folders first. Then it was too late…
I ONLY uploaded the admin and includes folders, nothing else. Last time I did a full install (except the contents folder) I still had to start all over.

The server is fine, I’m working on it and accessing other files and folders right now, and the SQL is also open and no problem with browsing etc.

I’m at my wits end!

Should I really do that? Surely I would also have to keep my config file, too?

I presumably need to do that in phpMyAdmin??

/login.php?loggedout=true doesn’t work either.
It would seem that the database either needs to be ‘installed’ or ‘initiated’ again… as if it were an engine that needs restarting. Is there a way of getting it going again without having to completely renew everything that I have done before?

No, nothing works, which is why I’m so worried… the file structure is of course only possible with ftp anyway…or my admin-portal. So why is the /login.php not accessible, when I can see that it is there? I’m looking at it right now!

I would gladly give you access, but not post details on the public forum!!
The hierarchy is correct. Domain is classicbikenut.com, httpdocs is the /depository for all other stuff there, so my /OZcommerce (in a folder) and the WP scattered on the top level, documents and folders.

Peter

I’ll try again…

That is the hierarchy on my host server. All the wp files and folders are in the httpdocs directory on the top level of the domain

NOT so advanced…

https://www.classicbikenut.com

No I didn’t, the other postings all sucggested copying this bit of code and that bit of code into different areas of the config file. I tried all of those. Either nothing works or the instructions weren’t precise enough and I got it wrong. I have noticed that that when someone says ‘put just above xxx” in the code, ‘just above’ the expression could mean 5 lines above… My knowledge is so advanced, so I just left it so as not to tamper more than I have already!

Everything was fabulous! THEN, i went this morning to see if someone had found a solution to the ‘problem’ and decided to give it a go… And now, after uploading the two folders via FETCH, the website is dead. When I enter “https://classicbikenut.com/httpdocs/wp-login.php”, for example, I get the 404, as if it weren’t there… nothing works, but all the 18 entries are there in phpMyAdmin… how do I restart it??

The content folder has not been compromised, all I need now (I hope) is to get WordPress up and running again – hopefully using all the already posted blogs and pages. I can live with the complicated posting-procedure if it works reliably (even if it is a pain), but it should actually work differently. My first priority is to get my stuff back. Or do I now have to re-install WP and re-post all 69 blogs and the pages I made from scratch?? (at least I still have all the photos in the content folder, AND, the ‘backup website on my localhost, of course!) ??

Peter

Thanks, that would be great. However the problem is worse now, as I have just finished posting everything to the new server… and now it has ‘white-paged’ me again.

Having installed the new folders (JUST wp-admin and wp-includes, I have the white page. This has cost me a lot of downtime already and I need the site to run decently. I also need ‘instructions for dummies’. All I wanted was to be able to post new blogs, without first starting my localhost, posting to there, uploading the relevant pictures to the actual host, copying the text into a text-editor, changing all the links, re-coying into the actual server’s WP-Dashboard ‘add new post’ and then hoping that it works. EVERY time. Is that too much to ask?? It’s so frustrating. You can surely understand that? I just haven’t the time to waste with all this (again) Please help, even if only to restart the sytem as it was before… if that’s possible! Thanks, Peter