Is it impossible to fully check the site before changing the DNS?
Only if you change the site url settings.
Thread Starter
maorb
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I’ve changed in the wp-options table the siteurl and home fields to the temporary address, which is http://IP_Address/~username/domain_folder
I manage now to see my homepage, but every inner pages are not viewable and I get not found error (maybe something with the .htaccess?)
Also, the wp-admin for the admin menu is also still unavailable.
Is there anything more I should change in order to fully check the site at the new host?
Thanks,
M.
You might want to try resetting your custom permalinks to the default setting for now.
Thread Starter
maorb
(@maorb)
How could I reset them, if for now with the temp URL in the new host, the wp-admin is not available?
Should I just delete the lines between #begin wordpress and #end wordpress that appears in the .htaccess file?
And if I reset them now, will after setting them again later, all the current permalinks will be still preserved?
Thanks
Should I just delete the lines between #begin wordpress and #end wordpress that appears in the .htaccess file?
Or you can just remove the entire .htaccess file for now.
And if I reset them now, will after setting them again later, all the current permalinks will be still preserved?
Providing you use exactly the same custom structure as before, yes.
Thread Starter
maorb
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Well, the problem have been solved.
The inner pages didn’t work, since the .htaccess file has redirected them to ./ instead to ./temp-url-with-IP …
About the wp-admin –
After I extracted all the files using the cPanel File Manager, all of the file and folder permissions were reset to 777.
Since the new host has a security system, it could run the admin if is has group or everyone write permission to the file.
I just don’t understand why they couldn’t tell me that at the begining. They should know that. Instead, they tried to claim I have a viurs/trojan at my php files.
Thanks esmi for your support!
M.
