suvie

Ahh, yet another plugin. I feel like I’m drowning in them :’D Thank you so much for your help though! I recognise it might cause some issues that would need to keep an eye on!

I actually got some friends of friends to look at it and I don’t know what they did but it’s now back to normal.

Shame though, as normally you would like to be able to post a solution here so that others could follow it if they ended up in the same mess :/

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by suvie.

Okay so I have replaced all of the old subdomain with the new, but it did not help, in fact it made it worse.

I think I will have to undo all changes. Luckily I can restore the db and I have not deleted files from the old domain yet, so that might be easier to reverse. Will see.

I guess I will just have to try this later in a different way.

Obviously if you have any good suggestions, please do let me know.

Hello abletec,

Thanks so much for your help! So the index.php file currently only has this:

<?php
/**
 * Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
 * wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

/**
 * Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
 *
 * @var bool
 */
define( 'WP_USE_THEMES', true );

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require __DIR__ . '/wp-blog-header.php';

I tried changing that to
require __DIR__ . ‘https://thecontrastclub.com’;
but that just kills the whole external site. Admin is still fine.

The htaccess file is in the root as it should (i.e. the /www/ folder) and I think the base is correct, this is the end of the file:

# BEGIN WordPress
# The directives (lines) between "BEGIN WordPress" and "END WordPress" are
# dynamically generated, and should only be modified via WordPress filters.
# Any changes to the directives between these markers will be overwritten.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

I know the url’s are a bit of a mess, I have not had a chance to change them yet, and now I can’t really access anything. For example the account page is part of Woocommerce and I can’t see the plugins or extensions at all on the admin side, it is like it’s just a skeleton of the real site.

Do you think I need to do the replacement in the DB then? That does sounds like an awful end result of this “easy move” :’D I did take a backup already of the site before starting any of this luckily.