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Thank you. I tried that before but was obviously doing something very wrong.

Yeah, I myself use to use Debian on Web-Servers and given these issues I don’t think I’ll be using CentOS for a web-server anytime soon.

Thanks again!

Ok, Over the last night I decided to take a totally different approach.

I realised that while VMware vSphere Client doesn’t ‘seem’ to allow you to virtualise Ubuntu 9.X and 10.X servers, it allows you to create one from scratch. So I quickly set one up much like my dev server and put my www/html folder in place and uploaded the DB.

Now I’ve realised that it is actually tar or my bad usage of it that’s causing corruption to the index.php, because the same thing happened to me again!!!???

After sorting out permalinks and everything, my site appears to work just as on the development server. I’m praying it stays this way. =)

It seems to me that things worked more seamless on Ubuntu than CentOS, though that could be down to my own experience of course.

Many, many thanks Andrea, Ipstenu and Curtiss. Job done just hours before my personal deadline!

No, it’s not. I worked that one out. I set my apache AllowOverride variable in the wrong part of the conf file. Pages are working but ldap still isn’t amongst other stuff… This is really frustrating, my dev server was perfect but doesn’t meet the virtualisation critera… Literally every step I’m taking has another hurdle in front of it.

Here’s the error log,

[Wed Feb 09 09:50:48 2011] [error] [client 172.21.7.48] File does not exist: /var/www/html/forms, referer: {My URL}

So apache isn’t doing its job properly I assume.

P.S. Pardon the quad-posts, can’t edit my previous. =)

Since I can’t edit my last post now and I noticed the meaningless sentances… By wrong I meant that the URL was a tad bit wrong, some instances had my new url mixed with the old!?

By problems with the first, I meant the first installation (the one that loops).

Regarding permalinks, in the setup the desired method is set, htaccess looks correct, I added RewriteEngine On and RewriteOptions Inherit to my vhost, and allowed AllowOverRide to All…

As for ldap, open ldap is installed as is the php-ldap package. The settings are exactly as with the last but its still not authenticating.

EDIT: Resaving the pages/posts hasn’t worked for me…

I’m moving forward finally!!!

I’ve managed to login on the newer installation. But my ldap and permalinks are still not working.

Basically, it seems there were some problems in my DB as I backed it up a second time and done a search replace again. Though I done a replace all, in some cases it was wrong, I’m guessing it was my doing.

Anyway, on the new install I made sure the DB had no such discrepancies and I’m in. Though I think there’s more problems with the first.

Now for resolving my ldap authentication and permalinks. I have a htaccess file and permalinks are set, but it’s still not resolving…

Yeah, I will start paying to lot more attention to logs =)

Well right now, I’ve kept an image of the current state of the blog. From there I’ve made a copy and reinstalled wordpress and am slowly copying my tables backover… It’s quite a horrific task, but I gotta get something running by the end of the week.

EDIT: I’ve just seen how much work I’d have to redo if I got about this way… Probably better avoiding it then!

I have, I checked them earlier. The only errors shown were one related to a favicon.ico, which can’t be serious. But the time of this ‘error’ didn’t reflect my later login attempts.

Ok, I’ve realised that importing the db tables individually and reconfiguring is very long and doesn’t always ‘work’. Any other suggestions at this point?

Thanks.

Well…

It must be a db issue as a new installation word perfectly fine.. So far that is. At this point, are you able to recommend a good guide to drop my old files, themes, plugins and DB back in? Or should I straight copy everything back in and upload the DB?

Well, I’ll take an image of the server for now and try the latter in the meantime! Thanks!

Lol thanks for the suggestion. Will give it a try later as I’m about to travel now.

I was concerned about a fresh install due to my plugin configurations etc and going through everything one by one. But I guess I have no choice and am wasting too much time on it now.

Thanks again. Will update when I get the chance.

Well that’s the thing… I’ve already dropped the server theory and am thinking about the database. I didn’t run a fresh install on the CentOS (5.5) server, I merely used tar to shift my installation over to the new server.

I’m now looking to recreate the site from scratch and see if that works, by installing wordpress from scratch and then piece-by-piece shifting my content over and uploading the DB.

*Edited for lack of clarity*

Version 5.2.10 – I did try to upgrade at one point but that failed. If it helps I’m using CentOS.

Thanks.

Just to give a further update, I’ve also tried to upgrade manually but the problem persists… I’m somehow starting to think that it might be server config related?