xdividr

OK, got it. Yes it’s not a bad idea to double-check permissions. If you’re on a shared or managed VPS server, you may need to contact Dreamhost to help with this. Generally, the correct file permissions for WordPress are:

All directories should be 755 or 750.
All files should be 644 or 640. Exception: wp-config.php should be 440 or 400 to prevent other users on the server from reading it.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/article/changing-file-permissions/#permission-scheme-for-wordpress

The above is good advice. Other suggestions:

I’m not sure exactly what you’ve got going on with the Google Maps embed, but there are something like 120 requests to the Google Maps API, totaling about 1 MB in JavaScript. This takes my browser about 14 seconds just to evaluate, blocking page rendering until that’s done. So if I were you, optimizing that would be my first priority.

You can also use an image resizing plugin such as https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/imsanity/ to bulk-resize your existing images and an image optimizing plugin such as https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/

Have you checked your Apache error logs to see what might be causing the issue? In Dreamhost I believe those are stored in /your_user/logs/your_domain/https/…

Often there is a plugin at fault for these types of errors, so you could also try disabling plugins one by one and see if that helps. Or you could try using a troubleshooting plugin such as https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/plugin-detective/

Here’s a better answer for the above Nginx config, in case it helps someone.

https://serverfault.com/a/846214

That link is loading for me.

You may need to clear your DNS cache?

https://www.techuntold.com/flush-dns-cache-windows-mac/

Ask your host.

One possibility. This can sometimes happen when multiple sites share the same server and there is no default site set in the server config.

https://serverfault.com/a/717490
https://stackoverflow.com/a/21316370

Could I just change HTTPS to HTTP in the database or will that burn me?

If you don’t want to use HTTPS, changing siteurl and home from https:// to https:// in wp_options should work. Afterward, you may also want to do a find and replace to make sure there are no other https:// URLs.

It’s recommended that you use HTTPS if you can. Again, it may be as simple as changing your Cloudflare SSL option to ‘Flexible’.

You need to set your nameservers to point to Cloudflare’s in order to use their SSL service.

It appears your nameservers are currently set to the following.

ns1.tsohost.co.uk
ns2.tsohost.co.uk
ns3.tsohost.co.uk

https://www.whatsmydns.net/#NS/realestatephotographerspain.com

If you don’t want to use Cloudflare, ask your host if they provide free secure certificates from Let’s Encrypt.

In Cloudflare, you likely need to set your SSL settings to ‘Flexible’

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/360024787372

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170416#h_4e0d1a7c-eb71-4204-9e22-9d3ef9ef7fef

• This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by xdividr.

It seems that you have uploaded a duplicate image file. No big deal. The actual performance impact is minor.

But if you want to fix the ‘error’ you can delete one of the files from Media and then update the link to use the other file.

You can find all instances of an image by going to Posts, then Pages in the WordPress Dashboard, then searching for the link.

Do you have FTP access? Try adding the following to wp-config.php

define('WP_HOME','https://www.realestatephotographerspain.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','https://www.realestatephotographerspain.com');

Try https://localbyflywheel.com/ or https://www.mamp.info/en/

Good luck!

To fix the issue where your site is in maintenance mode, delete the file .maintenance in your root WordPress install folder.

This is often caused by file permission issues. Check with your host and make sure that your install directory is writable by your user and group. Files should be set to 644 and directories to 755.

If that doesn’t work, try deactivating plugins and see if that helps.

As you said, you can use Google Search Console to request removal of specific URLs from Google’s index.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419?hl=en

In the case of /author/ and /category/ URLs, those are archive pages generated by WordPress. You don’t need to remove them from search results. Google knows how to handle those.

Keep in mind that if the results in Google’s index don’t actually exist on your website, they will eventually drop off, without you needing to do anything.

Using htaccess you can redirect query string results like so:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^%7Bquery%7D [NC]
RewriteRule .* https://your-domain.com/another-page.php [L,R=301]