Let's say I have domain sxz.me.
Hostname is sxz.me, server is up and running. Unfortunately when I was typing in address sxz.me, it automatically redirected me to IP address 141.xxx.xx.xxx.
My point was to make it as domain name, not IP address. So I changed something in VestaCP that didn't work.
As a next idea, I have installed a plugin, which was redirecting IP address into sxz.me .. It worked! It started redirecting 141.xxx.xx.xxx into sxz.me. The problem was that sxz.me still didn't work e.g. didn't read files uploaded through ftp.
Then I've got genius idea of resetting the server from hosting support. I did it and then for whatever reason WordPress admin panel from 141.xxx.xx.xxx stopped working. I couldn't access it.
I've changed everything in VestaCP in the way described in this video.
Before it was also changed similar, but some parts were missing. We were waiting for DNS propagation and unexpectedly sxz.me started working! Almost there, but problem was that I still couldn't copy files from 141.xxx.xx.xxx by plugin, because of no access to WP admin.
I know there are also different ways, but that was my first idea. In the meantime I've started installing WordPress according to config.php from zero on 141.xxx.xx.xxx and website gone again! It just crashed somehow and started redirecting me once again to 141.xxx.xx.xxx so I'm completely confused and don't know what to do.
Domain doesn't work at all.
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hope you can help me because I'm losing my mind here:
A couple of months ago, I started to build my new website (WordPress, hosted on Google Cloud, deployed with "Click to deploy" and I got the domain name on Google Domains).
Everything worked fine back then. But I needed to put this project on hold.
Now I wanted to continue working on the website, and I realized the VM was stopped. I successfully re-started it and wanted to access the WP back end with the link that can be found in the Deployment Manager of Google Clouds ([IP address]/wp-admin) but it doesn't work anymore. It only says the connection is not private, and I can't access the website. I can't even get to the login form.
What I have tried so far:
Changed ephemeral IP to static external IP & connected the VM to the IP
Pointed Domain toward static external IP - as shown in any tutorial
Updated NS on Google Domains
Created DNS Zones (A, CNAME)
Installed SSL for my domain successfull
Still not working, neither the IP nor the domain (server not found).
My guess - the Domain (mk-studios.net) is not live yet, and therefore, the SSL certification doesn't work yet. If not, I messed something up, and I don't know where to look. I don't get why it worked well months ago and has stopped working now.
Does anyone have a guess? Do you need any further details?
Thank you so much in advance,
Best,
Mario
This problem may have many causes but the most common is that your SSL has NOT installed properly. I suggest you the following steps:
Make sure that your SSL works fine and reinstall your SSL.
If you have access to DB, go to *_options table and in the first two rows siteurl && home you will find your URL. In this point remove the "S" from the https:// and make it http://.
If you have other server take the DB locally an connect with WP files from fresh installation.
Also when you remove the -s from https:// visit your url with incognito mode/private mode.
I will stay here to help you.
George
I have moved my WordPress multisite installation successfully to Azure. My main blog and another that I have moved work fine:
cedarrivermusic.com and
timpurdum.com.
However, my third site, cedarrivertech.com, does not resolve.
ERR_NAME_RESOLUTION_FAILED or Can't Reach errors when using this address.
I can access the dashboard, because this resolves to tech.cedarrivermusic.com, but not the actual site.
I have checked all DNS records, and they are identical for all three.
The web app on Azure verifies all three addresses, as well as *.cedarrivermusic.com.
Not sure whether this is a WP issue or an Azure issue.
EDIT
I "solved" this by going into the WHM panel on the old server, and seeing that I had deleted the DNS zone for cedarrivertech.com. So I recreated the entry on the old server. Which makes absolutely no sense to me, as every ping/dns service I can find shows the new server. I'd still love suggestions on how this is happening from the old DNS zone server.
As mentioned in the edit, deleting a DNS zone in your old (yet active) WHM panel will cause this failure. However, I have also discovered that I can turn off the old server completely, and the new server functions correctly.
EDIT
Actually, turning off the WHM server does eventually cause failure again, so I am in contact with my old host/domain registrar to try to fix this.
I have an issue in a WordPress site on Hostgator where the htaccess file keeps disappearing. Before you get all, "Check your plugins, dummy" I have the same install of this site running on a completely separate Hostgator account and it's running fine. Furthermore, I have a local instance which, again, is running fine. So if it was a plugin, the issue would be replicated on the other instances, but it's not.
My suspicion is someone who has access to the hosting account is tampering with it. While that sounds paranoid, I can't rule anything out because htaccess files don't just delete themselves.
The bandaid fix has been to just reset permalinks once the site goes down. Annoying, but simple. What might be even neat would be to set my server 404 page to a php script that, when accessed, hits an endpoint I set up in WordPress to programmatically flush the rewrite rules, thus restoring the htaccess page, and then the 404 tries to forward them on again. However, the suggestions on how to do this say putting the error page definitions in the htaccess page. Which doesn't do me much good if the htaccess page is being deleted.
How stupid is this idea? Please let me know in comments.
I'm open to other solutions, but I'm waiting on my hosting support to figure out how the file is being deleted because I assume others with the account info of tampering.
I've migrated my Wordpress blog to OpenShift recently. It works perfect until when you try to add a custom domain alias to your installation.
The OpenShift URL for my blog is blog-latifetunc.rhcloud.com
I added the following URL as alias: blog.latifetunc.com
(Sorry I couldn't attach images since I don't have enough reputation points. Instead I put links to images. This is my first question in StackOverflow.)
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I successfully added the CNAME record for my domain to point blog.latifetunc.com to blog-latifetunc.rhcloud.com in GoDaddy
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The problem pops up when I try to reach my blog with this alias. It says:
Safari can't verify the identity of the website "blog.latifetunc.com".
The certificate for this website is invalid. You might be connecting to a website that is pretending to be "blog.latifetunc.com", which could put your confidential information at risk. Would you like to connect to the website anyway?
(I can't even post more than two links without 10 reputation points :( So please put the above URL in front of below images as well.)
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If you click "Continue" it works fine but this alert is very scary for many users. I searched for hours for a solution with no luck. I considered buying a security certificate as well but then I thought this blog was working with an alias in its previous installation too. However we never had such an alert in browser while visiting either via the main domain or the alias.
The previous installation was on IIS and the binding were as following:
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Then when my brain was about to explode I found out that the alert is due to https. When I checked Settings from my Wordpress dashboard I realised that somehow OpenShift installs Wordpress on https and sets the permalinks to https.
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In fact whatever you type that points to *.rhcloud.com is converted to https. I know that because I added the CNAME for www.latifetunc.net to point to blog-latifetunc.rhcloud.com as well but didn't add the alias in OpenShift Applications. So www.latifetunc.net resolves to blog-latifetunc.rhcloud.com but since there is no alias defined (hence there is no vhost entry in Apache) it gives error. But even that error is in port 443!
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My main problem is to get rid of the certificate error while visiting my blog via my alias domain name. I really appreciate any help on that one.
My related question is that why on earth permalinks start with https on OpenShift Wordpress installation? If I can solve that, probably I'll solve my main problem as well.
Thanks a lot!
I checked blog.latifetunc.com on safari,chrome,firefox, and opera and I didn't get any warnings so you much have figured out a solution. However for others who may stumble across this I've provided some information:
By default OpenShift applications accept traffic on both http and https. So if you're wanting to have a custom domain but aren't worried about ssl than you can simply just use the http connection to your application (http://myapp.com). If you are wanting to apply a SSL certificate and you're on one of the plans that allow it (bronze or silver). The documentation to apply it, is in the SSL Section of the OpenShift Online User Guide.
The WP back end of a site I'm working on (It's a multisite) takes about 25 seconds to load.
Everything was working fine until yesterday and the front end still works perfectly well. All other sites on the same server run just as well, so it MUST be a WP back end issue.
I don't remember exactly what change it was that made it so slow. I remember updating WP recently (to version 3.4.2), adding some plugins on one of the sites and changing the max upload file size.
I tried to disable all the plugins, changing the themes back to default, changing the max file size back, and adding define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '1024M'); (and other values) to WP-config but none of it helped.
Also tried to 'Update network', but I got an error - couldn't connect to host.
Any ideas?
I got in touch with our network admin and we resolved the issue.
I will copy his answer here. Hope it helps someone.
Does Wordpress use 'self-referential URLs' ? What I mean by this is...
is wordpress trying to access it's own templates/css using fully
qualified domain names in the URL (e.g. http://example.co.uk/someurl )
Because we use Network Address Translation (NAT) on our firewalls to
hide the real IP address of the server, it has the side effect that if
the server tries to access it's own URLs, it will try to send the
traffic to the external interface on our firewall, which is where the
DNS resolves to.
The fix for this is very simple - we just add the site url into the
/etc/hosts file so that the server knows to use it's own IP address
instead of the address on the firewall.
So he added our address to the hosts file and now it works perfectly.
Awesome.
I've seen this before where the admin pages are trying to poll external Wordpress sites for details of Wordpress upgrades, plugin updates and Wordpress news. If there's no proper access (because of firewall restrictions, bad DNS, etc) then the page has to wait for the HTTP requests (I think WP uses cURL) to timeout.
If you're still unable to identify the cause I'd recommend a catch-all solution of installing xdebug and profiling the page with webgrind, xcachegrind, etc
Had the same problem for a week and now the problem of very slow WP-admin was solved!
Before, I cannot access my sites if I use incognito or I am not logged in as WP user, but all times in the wp-admin, it takes me 40 seconds- minute or even never.
Solution that worked:
I accessed the files in the file manager using the CPanel, and I saw so many unused and unnecessary folders and themes and that's the reason that causes the very slow access to admin.
It was because during the days of being a newbie, I stuffed a lot of files in the Public Http and that made it congested.
I logged in to another CPanel account that I bought personally before, and compared the folders of the "proper" versus the "congested" and compress, backed-up and deleted all the unnecessary.
My host: Hostgator, responded well also.
Hope this would help others.
I also had a very slow Dashboad in wordpress. Reading the James C´s answer, I realized that my site is located in a corporate intranet behind a firewall to access internet.
James C answered:
"I've seen this before where the admin pages are trying to poll external Wordpress sites for details of Wordpress upgrades, plugin updates and Wordpress news. If there's no proper access (because of firewall restrictions, bad DNS, etc) then the page has to wait for the HTTP requests (I think WP uses cURL) to timeout."
My solution was avoid all the internet conections: (1) disable all the wordpress updates using the wordpress plugin "Disable all wordpress updates". (2) activate de wordpress pluging "Disable google fonts"
After these two plugin activations, the Dashboard works to a suitable speed.