Installing plugins in a duplicate folder (from wordpress)

Hi bcworkz,

I managed to over come the ftp problem and reopen the port 21. I used WP all in one to create a wordpress back up of the site I wanted to create. I then used the ‘wordpress 5 minute install’, to create projectionpictures again.

Now when I try to install new plug ins or update the ones already there, I get this error message ‘Download failed. No working transports found’ (but it knows new updates are available).

Plugins in the original wordpress folder are unaffected and still install and update regardless.

How to overcome ‘Download failed. No working transports found’ in the projectionpictures folder?

Thanks for your previous reply.

Hi bcworkz,

Solved it purely by accident. I went into web station > php settings > went into both php 5.6 and 7.0. In each of their advance settings I enabled a tick at the top of the extensions next to name (so there all ticked in that box down the left column), then saved it.

Went back into projectionpictures and updated all the plugins and checked I could install any more from those I downloaded on my desktop and accepted it.

Still go to figure our how to change my URL from the IP address for the server to my projectionpictures web address.

Hi bcworkz,

What I need to do is give this folder web/projectionpictures with a duplicate copy of web/wordpress, this web address http://www.projectionpictures.com

At the moment the sign in for projectionpictures is http://192.168.1.234/projectionpictures/wp-login (to enter its dashboard)

the synology ddns is http://projection.synology.me and the IP address is 89.242.86.242

The router connected to the NAS, the external IP column has 89.242.86.242 the internal 192.168.1.234 for every port the DSM needs.

Finally the domain provider 1and1 that I pay for projectionpictures.com and .co.uk has http://projection.synology.me in the domain forwarding for both .com and .co.uk at the moment, but that maybe wrong.

In myphpadmin in the projectionpictures database in the wp_options entry for site URL and home URL http://192.168.1.234/projectionpictures. That URL appears in the Settings in the General settings for both site URL and Home entries. Then update permalinks.

What has to be done to htaccess and wp-config-php and any other files in that folder in web station for everything to work and http://www.projectionpictures.com to appear as a live site.

You said ‘That topology is a little outside my experience, but I think I know what you need to do. I don’t think you want to use domain forwarding. What happens in the user’s browser address field is less than desirable. Go ahead and set the projectionpictures (both .com and .co.uk) domain A records to the external IP of your router. (89.242.86.242) Remove the domain forwarding. It might take a day or so for the change to reach all DNS servers, it depends on the record’s TTL value.’

I have done this in a ‘A @’ record entry, I’ve entered 89.242.86.242. The domain forwarders now have this:
DNS settings were modified
IPv4: 89.242.86.242
IPv6: 2001:08d8:1001:5348:5e07:2f1f:9f4f:700e

Now I need to wait for that to take effect, I’ll give it till tomorrow about this time.

I would have seen your above reply sooner but for some reason I don’t appear to getting a notification email to highlight your reply. So I apologies for taken so long to read what you’ve written.

You said ‘If you already are serving projection.synology.me content from the NAS server, your router probably already has port forwarding setup to send port 80 and 443 traffic to the server. That’s good, the same will now happen to projectionpictures traffic as well.’ Ports 80 and 443 are in place and I have setup virtual hosts for each of theses variations. http://www.projectionpictures.com, projection.synology.me, http.www.projectionpictures.com, and https.www.projectionpictures.com.

One thing to point out in the 1and1 dashboard before I changed the A records to 89.242.86.242, the port forwarding was using http://192.168.1.234/projectionpictures for both the .co.uk and com. For the .co.uk you could click on a live shortcut projectionpictures.co.uk and it would redirect to http://192.168.1.234/projectionpictures, but for .com it would redirect to http://projectionpictures.com – and no page would be displayed. At the moment I’m waiting for an SSL certificate to be disabled as I had set it up previously. 1and1 give you one free SSL certificate to use with your domain should you need it, but if you want to disable it you have to phone them and talk to customer support (not very convenient).

You said: ‘There is probably already a default virtual host file. It’ll have the extension .conf and will contain <VirtualHost *:80> and maybe <VirtualHost *:443> server directives. The location varies, so do a ‘net search to determine the location for your situation. You can use the default file as a guide, but I would create a new file. More examples at https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/examples.html&#8217;
Does the variation of web URL’s I have setup in Web Station cover this already, (that I mentioned above) ?

At the moment my .htaccess file contains this with the web/projectionpictures folder:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /projectionpictures/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /projectionpictures/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

What if anything should be changed in that?

So you want me to change the htaccess from this:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /projectionpictures/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /projectionpictures/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

to this:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# 3 more lines OK
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

If I come across a bit odd at times or to literary this is because I have highly functioning autism/Asperger’s and sometimes what people have asked me to do, is not necessary how I will interpret what you’ve said.

You said: ‘I’m sorry forum notifications are not working for you. You appear to be properly subscribed to this topic. Please double check that the email address in your forum profile (click on your user name above any of your posts) is correct and the one you expect. Check your email spam folder and mark any forum notifications found as “not spam”. My email address is where it should be I often get updates on queries about the Lodestar theme design I’m using for the thread that concerns that design.

You said: ‘ I like the interconnect/IT tool I linked previously for doing this. You can use the 192.168.1.234/projectionpictures/ URL to access the tool’s files or wait until the domain name changes come through and use one of those. The tool can take care of the home and site URL changes mentioned above if you haven’t already done so manually.’ I’ve downloaded interconnect/IT tool zip, describe to me how this is installed or better yet is there a youtube video that explains this. If as is in my DSM (called projection) it is laid out like this:

In projection/web folder is
/wordpress
/projectionpictures
/web_images
/phpmyadmin
/wordpress
/[create folder for interconnect/IT] and unzip contents into it?

Or place [create folder for interconnect/IT] in
projection
/homes
/home
/music
/photo
/video
/backup

You said: ‘Before doing that though, go into your WP settings and set the home and site URL options to your preferred domain name URLs. Your site will no longer work right until the DNS changes come through.’
I’ll do this before you reply to this. I will enter http://www.projectionpictures.com. Once I do that I will no longer be able to log in to the WP dash using http://192.168.1.234/wordpress/wp-admin (what should that be instead). NB: I can change the site and home URL back if needed by going into phpymyadmin directly and changing the wp_options if I get stuck in the projectionpictures database there.