Getting 404s after migrating multisite installation.

  • darrell_rushhour

    (@darrell_rushhour)


    10 years, 9 months ago

    Hello,

    Apologies if this is wrong forum. Wasn’t sure if I should put it here or in the multisite forum.

    I am moving a multisite installation from godaddy to a new host. I did so the same way I have migrated sites in the past.

    -First I downloaded wp-config, wp-contents, and a backup of the database from the godaddy hosting.

    -Then I created a new WP install on the new host. Replaced the the wp-config and wp-contents with the backups. I created a new database and imported the backup I had previously created

    – Edited wp-config to recognize new database. One difference from previous experience was the “MySQL hostname” in wp-config had some funky godaddy address. I changed it to “localhost”.

    I have not pointed the domain over yet but edited my hosts file so I could view it. The home page comes up looking normal and I can get into the backend and everything is there. However all the links on Home give the notice:

    —-
    Not Found

    The requested URL /about-atomik-comiks-tennessee/ was not found on this server.

    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
    —-

    I cannot access the other site of the multisite installation either. Not even the dashboard.

    I tried resaving permalink already. I’ve drawn a blank

    The domain is atomikcomiks.com but as I said I have not pointed to the new host yet so everything will appear to be working correctly.

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  • Thread Starter darrell_rushhour

    (@darrell_rushhour)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    After some more messing around I’ve found that switching the permalinks to ‘Default’ allows the pages to be viewed. Of course this is not what I want at all. Switching back to ‘post name’ results in the 404.

    Something of note is the permalink structure is forcing /blog/ in into the URL. Some digging around suggests this is a result of the multisite installation.

    Im still at a loss and any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thread Starter darrell_rushhour

    (@darrell_rushhour)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Found what the problem was. First I realized the new WP install did not create a new htaccess. So I imported the one from godaddy. When that didn’t work I continued searching for possible fixes.

    I ran across this thread:
    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/permalink-issue-after-wordpress-multi-site-migration?replies=2

    Discovered I had the same problem,…. There was no . in front of my htaccess file.

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