silvanet

Thanks. CF7 is now working and the forms are back, but there was an error reported on one of them in the Mail tab. I’m not sure why, but it was sending a possible 3 mail attachments limited to 25MB each. I know Gmail for example limits the total attachments size to under 25MB. In the Form tab I had set each attachment to a 25MB limit. I just set one limit but I’m not sure that will allow the user to attach more than one file.

There was a red circle with an white exclamation point inside it on the Dashboard Contact menu item and inside that beneath it on one of the forms. On opening Edit, I saw the same red icon on the Mail tab. When I saved the changes I just mentioned, the red icon disappeared from the form’s Mail tab and from the form, but it remains on the Dashboard “Contact” and “Contact forms” items. No matter what I do, it persists and does not go away.

But except for that, your plugin is working again and the forms are working. Do you have any tip on how to set the file size limit and still allow multiple file attachments?

The site was built on the Tryo theme. The plugins are: Elementor Core and Pro plugins, page scroll to id, advanced custom fields (ACF), ACF pro, and Tryo-toolkit. As mentioned, contact-form-7 is currently deactivated because of that error message Bluehost saw when doing the backup restoration.

I tried to edit this but I guest I took too long and I’m not allowed to edit it.

I guess the question could as well be addressed to the Tryo theme people, or Envy Themes, or EnvatoMarket Themeforest.

I don’t know how to delete this. I incorporated it in the main topic and wanted to delete it there, but I can’t.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by silvanet.

OK, I’m having to check back on on this. I followed the instructions on https://contactform7.com/file-uploading-and-attachment/#How-your-uploaded-files-are-managed
I set the permissions to the public to have write permissions on the wp-content/uploads/wpcf7_uploads folder. I had not changed the default folder. This worked while I was testing it with the mail settings to deliver the emails to me. I got the attachments and thought “OK, fine.” I then changed the destination email to my customer’s in domain email address. I went back to my hosting site and double checked to make sure the permissions were properly set. There are three mode settings: User, Group, and World with the possible permissions of Read, Write, and Execute. I had checked the World setting to Write. That was the only change I had made while testing, and it worked. Now after changing the CF7 mail settings to the customer’s email, he gets all the emails, but no attachments are getting through.
Please, Takayuki Miyoshi (@takayukister), if you can respond and tell me what I’m doing wrong or what is happening here and how I can track it down and fix it. I’m going to try to set ALL the permissions temporarily to allow and see what happens.

That is very strange to me, and beyond my experience. Good luck. Please let us know if you find help and get that solved, and please also detail the steps taken to solve it.

This worked for me. https://contactform7.com/file-uploading-and-attachment/#How-your-uploaded-files-are-managed. Make sure the temp file saving location is writable.

“Make certain your temporary folder for uploaded files exists and is writable. Otherwise, all file uploading will fail.”

I’m having the same problem sort of. CF7 is working fine for regular email responses, but not with file attachment. I’m not done with the site so it is in staging and I’ve set up the mail section to respond to my gmail address. As I say, email responses get to me OK, but no attached file. I’m just attaching a tiny simple screenshot image.

My version of CF7 is latest update as of today’s date, 6/15/2021.

My site is at transact-temp.transactultd.com

The file attachment form is at Apply for an Account button link on Home page.

What is the simplest configuration to test if CF7 is processing an attached file and confirm it is received?

I guess that’s really good enough.

I found what I was missing. I forgot to unregister the theme license in the old site. Sorry!

I certainly don’t have much background on WP. I don’t use it much. It’s easy enough to set up, has way too many themes and plugins. I know it’s super popular, but the minute you build a site you’re spammed with people selling their expert services. Maybe it’s like Microsoft, because the largest are the most hated, but I’ve seldom seen a platform more hacked than WP.

I do have years of experience working back-ends and pretty good JavaScript & other basic programming experience with a couple of reputable long full-stack courses behind me. I’m familiar enough with coding and used to work Relational databases with lots of SQL many years ago. I’ve set up a pretty large number of working servers on local machines.

No matter how much I’ve learned, I always spend a lot of time on forums like StackOverflow, and that’s also why I’m here. I saw a quote recently “Programming isn’t about what you know. It’s about what you can figure out.” – Chris Pine. It’s pretty much the same for everything you do. I really appreciate your sharing, advice, and communication.

Sorry, I didn’t pay attention to what happened when I just cut and pasted the query. That &#8217 was not in the text I copied. I also tried the plugin approach and that didn’t work. So, my second attempt was to follow instructions on manually copying the files using FTP or host site cpanel file manager. Those were the instructions with the query. One of them was wpbeginner.com.

I have no interest whatsoever in moving a site “back.” What I want to do is my development in a localhost, then put it on a hosting site of my choice. Once I put it on hosting I might consider a staging copy on the host. So, is it then pretty much impossible to make changes on a localhost and then upload to a hosting site? Won’t my localhost created database keep all my settings, plugins, etc.?

I can understand that all the administrative settings should follow with the database. So why isn’t it just made clear that if you upload you will be overwriting all settings on the live site? I don’t get why database and site content aren’t just one package. You set whatever you want in the development stage on a local machine. You build and optimize it. Then upload it to a host.

Thanks for the explanation on the password. That makes sense. I didn’t think of it, but looking at that hash in the database confused me. I was thinking it was just a strong password created by the password generator button in wp Dashboard User section. What is that pw related to? Is it a hash for the wp login pw or the database user pw? There are so many passwords it’s mind-boggling.

Thanks. I was going batty with Bitnami. I”m also going back to XAMPP. Since I at least have the wordpess localhost site working in the bitnami build, I want to be careful to copy it over to my manual XAMPP installation and make the necessary configuration changes, or is that not advisable and I should do the whole process all over again?

To avoid the problems I had the first time, should I use a plugin like Duplicator after creating a new administrator user in the site that I’ll use in the localhost copy. Can I create two administrators? I’ll then delete that user in the live site and keep my original administrator user. In the localhost database users table, I’ll delete my live site’s original one.

Wow, thank you Joy!

Yes, I’m using WP 5.1, so that Recovery mode is probably in effect. My problem is that the admin email I created several years ago hasn’t been used in forever. I don’t even know the password to it and haven’t been able to recover that because I don’t even know what the recovery email I used in setting it up was. I may just go back to scratch and re-import the live site backup that I made with Duplicator, this time paying attention to your explanation and renaming the database, changing the username and password from the start; and putting that into the wp-config.php file.

The instruction in a couple of articles said to run this update query on my new localhost database (replacing https for http on live site if have SSL):

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, ‘https://www.mylivesite.com’, ‘https://localhost/mysite’) WHERE option_name = ‘home’ OR option_name = ‘siteurl’;
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, ‘https://www.mylivesite.com’, ‘https://localhost/mysite’);
UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_value = replace(meta_value,’https://www.myylivesite.com’,’https://localhost/mysite’);

Can I just change the username in the database’s user table, or do I have to use the livesite’s user and then change the password after I get in?

I think if I have a step by step plan that covers all the exact things I should be doing, a new attempt may work better.

I notices something else I don’t understand. From the WP Dashboard, while I also had phpMyAdmin open and could check my User in the localhost database, I went to Users and saw me as Administrator with a series of Profile settings. I changed some of the fields in the Dashboard and noticed they also changed in the database, but when I generated a new password I got a long password but the one in the database was not remotely the same. I tried it again and a different password is being returned back to the database than the one I generated. Is that normal? What is that password about?

When using my manual installation of XAMPP, I got used to seeing the different sites served being in separate directories (folders). When I typed localhost I’d get teh XAMPP default Apache page. Then /anything/ would give me the sites in folders in the xampp/hddocs – mysitenames. Bitnami Apache installation seems to be serving out of their apps folder (where they have bitnami, phpmyadmin, and wordpress folders). Then in each they bury htdoc folders one, or two folders down to their file locations.

And I notice that for some reason Bitnami’s server is running significantly slower than my XAMPP Apache installation does on port 80. I don’t have it running as a service and I turn it off when I’m using Bitnami. Especially when it runs phpMyAdmin, it takes forever.

The more I think about it, I didn’t really make myself as clear as I thought.
1. I have duplicated my live site and imported the database to my localhost on XAMPP.
2. When I created the localhost database, I kept my live site database name, user, and password. I don’t know if I could have done anything different. So, I edited the wp-config.php file to contain that information. I followed instructions to send a SQL query to update the links for the local site.
3. in order to log in to wordpress on my localhost (to be able to open the dashboard & not just view the site), I had to use my live site login credentials.
4. I don’t know if it was a plugin that did this, but after a few days of successfully checking my site settings and plugins on the localhost copy, I suddenly got an error referencing a file that mentioned an invalid DateInterval and referring me to an administrative email I hadn’t used in years for instructions on how to fix that.
5. I figured something had locked me out. It’s all become a major pain.

I wonder if there isn’t somewhere (like in the database) where I can change settings for my localhost site so nothing can be locking me out of logging in to my own local site. All I want to do is test and make changes on that localhost site independently of what is running on the live site that has been up for years. For now my thoughts on that one are if it ain’t broke don’t mess with it.

When I get what I want on my localhost, I then want to be able to host it on any service I want, not just back to my original hosting service. I’m not too happy with the enormously long waiting periods to get technical support from them anyway, among other things.

If anyone here knows WP well enough to guide me to how I might do what I”m asking, I’d be extremely thankful. I’m willing to read, study and learn, but I need to focus on the specific area of concern. Maybe I’m way off the wall here. Please let me know if that’s the case, too.

Sorry, I saw no such thing…

Then I noticed that I had an ad blocker running.

When I turned it off…

Voila!

My sincere apologies