globemerchant

Thanks… I did that and amazingly it worked!

Just found the version… it’s 3.3.1

I have a dedicated server so there are no limits… the program seemed to work fine, but I think when I updated to 3.4.2 the problems began… which are even worse for my clients… they get locked out when they try to load the file… it loads up to about 95% and then stops… and then they were blocked from the server until I whitelisted them…

OK… I think I got it working… I ended up using FTP to reload the program and when I went to sign in it said to wait while it fixed the databases…. it fixed them in a minute and then I signed in and just had to change the blog address… so I think I’m set… and I have the latest version of the blog…… so I can retire my antique!.. thank you for you help.. I appreciate it..

David

Actually… this may make a difference.. I was thinking about it when I was driving home… the new site is set up as a subdomain of the old domain… so all the data bases are together in the same account.. would that make a difference as to what I need to do?

hmmmm… it’s two different domains set up on the same server and they were set up using Fantastico…. so I would think that the databases are different… but the new site must be using the old database…

so it sounds like the old database needs to be moved to the new site and the new site must then connect with the old database on the new site?

ok… here is where something weird is happening because I did that step over and over…

1. change the urls on the old site(WordPress and Blog in general settings) to the new site and save the page
2. download wordpress and then load it to the new site
3. check it… and all links work..
4. go back to old site to change the links back to the old site..
5. check the new site and all the links now point to the old site again…

Why would changing the links on the old site affect the links on the new site? If I shut down the old site will none of the links on the new site work?…hmmmmmm

https://globemerchant.com/TravelBlog/?m=201112

no… I haven’t…

The permalinks page looks like this..
Should I try to put in the new domain lines here:

“Use the template tags above to create a virtual site structure:

Structure: __________________________________________

the examples are https://globemerchant.com/TravelBlog/archives/123… would it make a difference if I added https://AGreatFare.com/TravelBlog/archives/123

Below is the information on the permalinks page without the organization it has on the browser…
Edit Permalink Structure

By default WordPress uses web URIs which have question marks and lots of numbers in them, however WordPress offers you the ability to create a custom URI structure for your permalinks and archives. This can improve the aesthetics, usability, and longevity of your links. A number of tags are available, and here are some examples to get you started.

Structure: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
Result: https://globemerchant.com/TravelBlog/2012/01/20/sample-post/
Structure: /archives/%post_id%
Result: https://globemerchant.com/TravelBlog/archives/123

For the above to work you must have something called mod_rewrite installed on your server. (Ask your host.) If that isn’t available, you can prefix the structure with /index.php/ . This is the recommend method if you are on any web server but Apache.

Use the template tags above to create a virtual site structure:

Structure:

If you like, you may enter a custom prefix for your category URIs here. For example, /taxonomy/categorias would make your category links like https://example.org/taxonomy/categorias/uncategorized/. If you leave this blank the default will be used.

Category base:

yes ma’am… it’s an antique!

I was able to do that and the index.php page comes up on the new site… but all links still link back to the old site…. I can’t even get into the dashbooard because it automatically goes to the old sites dashboard……. The new site is AGreatFare.com/TravelBlog and the old site is Globemerchant.com/Travel Blog There must be another setting in wordpress 1.5 that sets the links to point to globemerchant.com

any ideas?

Whoops… I think I found the problem… I was asking How many children and the option was “0”, “1”, “2” etc… I changed “0” to “None”… and it worked… hmmmmmmmmm