Introduction
I'm new to hostgator and multisites, and my client has an account in hostgator, using the plan that you can have multisites.
The account already have a site "yyy.com" made by some other programmer that they don't work with anymore.
I need do develop a new site for them, hosted in that account, they dont have a domain for it yet, then i tried to create a subdomain on hostgator like xxx.yyy.com, but even waiting 8 hours i cant acess the subdomain, i want to install wordpress in it, to start developing the site.
Techinical Information
The yyy site is in: /home/username/public_html
The xxx subdomain is in /home/username/public_html/xxx.com
I used the "add subdomain" tool and softaculous app installer to install wordpress in that subdomain.
I think that the programmer of yyy.com used magento
QUESTION
What i'm doing wrong and how can i get it right?
(As a standard: sorry for english errors, its not my native language)
Related
I have a WordPress Multisite running on a relatively new Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lightsail instance, based on a Bitnami image (provided through AWS Lightsail) running a LAMP stack, based on Debian.
Until recently, plugins installed through the WordPress multisite Administrator Dashboard installed and ran good. Worked great before, no problems. Now, for some reason, attempting to install any WordPress plugin surfaces a dialog requiring FTP credentials be provided. There's a screenshot of the WordPress multisite dialog asking for FTP credentials at the end of this message.
I'm thinking this - new - demand to provide FTP credentials when adding a WordPress plugin is happening due to permissions. Naturally, I'd rather not need to install WordPress plugins using FTP.
So, I have two questions:
What settings were accidentally - somehow - changed to cause WordPress to now produce this new requirement asking for FTP credentials when installing any WordPress plugin?
How to I fix WordPress so that plugins can be installed without FTP?
I did see many solutions for fixing permissions on the Internet, except since I'm new to AWS, Linux (Debian) & WordPress I'd like to use this opportunity to learn how this situation happened, while learning how to fix the hiccup. Other than using a few new plugins, which installed & ran fine without FTP, I have not made any edits to any internal WordPress files.
The only chance to change permissions might - maybe - have happened when setting-up users within my AWS account, including setting-up of a Yubico key with key-pairs --> I don't think that security change would influence the LAMP stack running the WordPress multisite, but I wanted to offer information that might - maybe - related to security changes influencing why, now, adding WordPress plugins requests FTP credentials.
Thanks in advance, everybody. Thank you. :)
WordPress multisite dialog asking for FTP credentials
I tried to add many, many WordPress plugins to confirm that every WordPress plugin now asks for FTP credentials for any new plugin.
I have looked at many Internet posts explaining how to change WordPress & Linux permissions, along with posts explaining how to change WordPress configuration files to not ask for FTP when installing new plugins. I have not acted on these many suggestions since I'm cautious & careful --> I'm ready to study months & months becoming a Linux, WordPress, and supporting technologies expert, but at this stage since I'm new to all-of-the-above, I'm reluctant to make any changes until I fully understand the technologies (after making this post, I will make copies of WordPress configuration-files to test changes that can be undone, but I wanted to see whether StackOverflow might help me learn what happened in the first place, while learning how to correctly fix these issues.
I pay for AWS Premium Support --> I've sent a message to AWS Premium Support, but so far have not heard back from AWS.
I hired a developer to stand up my website. I had already created a WordPress install on AWS lightsail. The developer says he needs cpanel in order to finish the work (header/footer code, configuration etc...). I was hoping to do this as cheaply as possible and it seems like cpanel would add $15 a month. Is it really needed? Any alternatives?
Looked at AWS docs on alternatives but didn't find anything.
cPanel is a hosting control panel to manage a website and server. It seems that you have already hosted and configured your server without cPanel. For developers, they should be able to manage and customize your website using FTP and WordPress admin details and it does not require from Development point of view.
Even if you are planning to add cPanel to your server, you will have to reinstall your server from scratch because cPanel requires a fresh server without any software, data or website.
Background:
So I have a website which is up and running. But now I want to change the hosting provider of my existing website due to certain issues.
Since, I am changing my hosting provider I thought I had do some website changes as well so I am going to buy a new WordPress theme from a third-party and run it on the new hosting provider.
My research
For what I learned, I will have to buy a different domain name and host my newly bought WordPress theme on it. And when I have made the desired changes to my WordPress theme then I can change the domain settings with my new hosting provider and redirect the old website links to the new website.
My question is
How can I host my new website on the same domain while my old website is still hosted? Is that even possible?
Is there a way where I can keep my existing website running while I am working on my new website but the new website needs to run on the same domain name as the old website was running on?
I will give you 3 solutions to solve this problem depending on your ability.
On live site running you login hosting and create new site dev after done you can point domain to new hosting and move code ( use plugin i think point domain + souce about 1 - 2h if update delay can 1 day ), if you are anxious you can temporarily turn off the indexing.
New hosting provider when payment done they'll send you link static domain temporary ( or use domain free: tk, co.cc,... ) and you working it after done you need point domain and update url in database.
Old hosting provider you can create new subdomain but point it to new hosting provider and working in new hosting when done you only point main domain to new hosting after use plugin clone to root site.
Can use DNS but you need you need to have experience with the system.
Hope to help you solve your problem.
Note:
You can learn plugin Duplicator best migration hosting.
This is what you should do.
Create a full backup of your exiting files and database
Activate the maintainance mode
Install your new theme into your current wordpress installation
Make the required changes
Once you are happy get a full back up including database
Do the DNS changes on your domain register
Upload your site, to your new host , to the correct path / folder
Wait for the DNS update and your are good to go.
I have minimal experience with Wordpress. I have a client who currently has a site on Weebly, with their domain hosted on GoDaddy.
What they want:
They want to eliminate their Weebly site and use Wordpress instead.
They want to keep their GoDaddy domain hosting, since they already pay for that.
Where I'm lost:
Wordpress requires you to pay a monthly fee to have the "wordpress.com" removed from the Wordpress site domain name. So, will the client need to pay for that as well as the GoDaddy hosting?
Also, since I've never really started this process from scratch, what is the recommended order that I start this process? I'll need to rebuild the site manually, so I don't need a transfer service or anything.
I suggest you to purchase a good hosting with following requirement
PHP version 5.2.4 or greater.
MySQL version 5.0.15 or greater or any version of MariaDB.(Optional) (Required for Multisite)
Apache mod_rewrite module (for clean URIs known as Permalinks)
And point your domian to that hosting server. You can purchase a hosting from GoDaddy also.
So I built this client a WordPress site and after if was completed and paid for he decided he didn't like his domain name. So he logged into HostGator and then bought/transferred to a new domain.
Then a day later he calls and wonders why his page isn't loading. I'm able to go into the FTP and save all the wp-content and every file that was originally there... My question is how do I get the WordPress site I built onto the new domain name?
I've read all kinds of tutorials about how to export/import but they require the site you're transferring from to be live.. I can't log into the wp-admin portion because it looks like the domain does not exist anymore.
I'm definitely not a back-end guy.. I've build a few sites off line with xamp but i have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to trying to salvage this site. Any help?
WordPress is flexible to handle situations like moving to another server. First back up your WordPress directory, images, plugins, and other files on your site as well as the database. The detailed steps on how to do it is well documented in the website https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress.