Drew75

It looks like based on that link, what I didn’t do is a backup of my sites database with the current site host. I have just done a backup though. I guess I figured there would be a new database setup by the new host, being that they are a host geared towards WordPress websites and had already set up an entire WordPress in my root directory for me before I moved all of my existing WP site files/folders over.

I didn’t change anything with regards to any of my WP files before uploading them to the root directory on the new server. I backed all of my WP site files to my local machine, set up a connection to the new hosts servers and then uploaded the files where they needed to go. Hope that helps some.

Which one of those avenues in the link you provided should I have focused on going with for my situation? I’m not pulling the current site down right now and not pointing the domain name to the new server until the site looks right on the new one.

I’m not sure. I’m not an expert with WordPress on the back end. Is there nothing you can suggest for me to look at to potentially fix this issue? I would think if I screwed up something myself while migrating my files over, the theme and plugins wouldn’t work and/or be there.

It looks as though I did follow those instructions for the most part. We are keeping the same domain name, but do not want to point it to the new server until everything is running and looking right and currently, it is not. All WP files/folders were moved into the root directory of the new host, the same as with the current live sites host.

I’ve looked in several of the folders on the new server, the folders and images contained in those folders are there. What else should I be looking at to determine why the menus and pages I’ve created are not?

We’ve decided to move our sites to another hosting company that specializes better in WordPress sites. After further research, it’s becoming more apparent the company we’re currently using simply doesn’t have the capacity to handle them and it’s believed that’s the primary cause for this issue I’ve been having.

Here’s a screen shot of the constant server error message I get. I’m not sure if this helps to validate anything, but here it is.

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Thank you and I plan on updating all of my WordPress site files. I spoke to our host provider again about this and he went into detail about an ongoing attack on WordPress sites against the administrative side. I’ve done a quick search and came across this and it sounds like this is the issue I’m currently dealing with.

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2013/04/15/WordPress-Sites-Targeted-Mass-Brute-force-Botnet-Attack

I agree. What’s the best method to update to the latest version of WP? Is it okay to go directly through the dashboard where it says along the top WordPress 3.6 is available! Please update now? Or should I download the files through the WordPress site and upload them?

That’s what I was afraid of. I’ve been told it’s not always good to update your version of WordPress because the potential’s there that your theme may not work right with it until the theme developer’s made updates accordingly. That’s the reason why I’m still running such an old version.

Okay, thank you. I did what you suggested. I pulled the error.log file up in Notepad and notice this line reoccurring often.

[error] Premature end of script headers: php, referer: https://www.thegalleysink.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=953&action=edit
Aug 6 02:40:16 10.2.150.54: 147719:[error]

My IP address is also mentioned in there.

Nevermind, I was able to access a most recent error log dated today, copied it over to my machine and pulled it up in Notepad, but have no idea how to read it.

Thank you. I spoke to a rep with the hosting company and he directed me to the error logs stored in my directory on their server and suggested I look at them. However, I can’t move the most recent file over to my machine to view it. This may not be necessary though, as the most recent error log file is dated 7-15-2013. Basically, they told me this time that according to what they see, there’s no problems with their SQL server and said if there was, I wouldn’t be able to even view my website (which I can do). This issue only occurs when I’m logged into my WordPress dashboard and trying to make changes to various pages on the site.

Thank you. The CSS code you provided needs to be added to the themes style.css file, in addition to the <div></div> code you provided to go with the images’ code on the page?

Nevermind, I was able to restore an autosave and get the content back.