jayyyoh

True!

So when moving an established WP install from one location to another, what should be done?

Backup existing site and DB
Remove current site (SSH)
Upload new site (FTP)

Last time I did not update my .htaccess girl but when I compared them, they were both the same.

Can anyone help?

Thank you James.

I have not tried changing themes or disabling themes as the site worked fine when parked over at the sub-domain – plus I also cannot access wp-admin so it would be difficult.

When I changed the file name of my .htaccess to .htaccess2 the error changes to:

Not Found
The requested URL /eoyummywp/wp-admin/ was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache Server at thefieldfl.com Port 80

And when I change i back to .htaccess the server goes back to:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache Server at thefieldfl.com Port 80

The code inside of my .htaccess file is:

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

Any other ideas?

GOT A RESPONSE FROM MY WEB HOST:

The reason your WordPress dashboard login takes you to your production site, rather than your development site, is because the “Site” and “Home” URLs within the “test” database are incorrect. They still list your domain, domain.com. You will need to change these URLs to use the subdomain, test.domain.com, directly in the database using PhpMyAdmin. I am including some KnowledgeBase articles and some screenshots in regard to this for reference below:

Accessing phpMyAdmin
http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/1570

Managing a MySQL database with phpMyAdmin
http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/426

The fields you must edit in the database are option ID #1 and option ID # 37 in the “wp_options” table.

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s263/sh/f870e7ef-6eb0-4c51-9fb4-9e6317d4d8b9/52d00950b76e5d41a474464f13c3c1ab

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s263/sh/219fcc6e-abeb-47af-8226-41d514953a04/a224d84096a37a396bd0a095ed2a5365

Once you have updated this information, you will be able to access the WordPress dashboard for your, test.thefieldfl.com, site.

No. Not in the existing working sliders that load the image or the new ones that do not.
If you look at the source of the page, you will see how the last slider image only partially loads. I’ve also tried changing the slider settings to reverse load order, randomize it, change the number of slides loaded etc.

***SLIGHT EDIT TO ABOVE POST***

I’m running WP 3.1 with the Gensesis Framework and a child theme too with very few plugins (Google Analytics, Scribe, VaultPress and NextGEN). I was developing a site on a live server in a directory. I went live, moving index.php and my .htaccess to the root and made the appropriate tweeks in each to reference the directory with the rest of the files. Finally, I was attempting to get rid of the WP directory appearing in the permalink structure and modified site_url and home under the main settings from http://mysiteulr.com/directory to http://mysiteulr.com/

WHITE SCREEN OF DEATH!

Since I could not access wp-admin and I have VaultPress I thought it would be simple to wind back to the last stable backup of the DB. Problem is, after I re-install WP and point it to the last good version of the DB I still have the whitescreen which generates no source code at all. On the VaultPress website they give you the way to resore plugins, themes, uploads and the database (https://dashboard.vaultpress.com/1228/support/) although it does not give a particular order in which to do this. Is this why my full-reinstall is not working?

My question is, should I do this re-instal in a certain order? Like create a new empty DB for my new WP install, reinstall themes, then plugins and then uploads – lastly updating my DB with the old MySQL tables?

I have a feeling that because I am connecting a new install of WP to a themed and modified version of a database, it’s referencing some things that are in the themes that breaks WP and gets the whitescreen.

James,

I feel a little stupid now 🙂

PHP is now turned on and running. That install.php also seems to work now as well.

Thanks so much