permissions problem after move

  • I’ve spent the weekend migrating a 1000+ post site from Expression Engine to WordPress, and have fought my way through the no export problem, the slightly imperfect import problem, and the completely different permalink structure problem. Now I have what I’m hoping is a very stupid and easily resolvable problem: the file ownership problem.

    I originally installed WP2.2 via a Dreamhost one-click install in a testing subdomain of my regular top-level domain, in order to get everything imported and customized before fully replacing the old EE site. Last night, I took down the EE site and used the codex instructions for migrating the installation from this testing subdomain to the top-level domain.

    Everything basically went fine, except that WP doesn’t seem to think that I own the files in the top-level domain. Permissions are set identically in the subdomain and the top-level domain (755 for folders, 644 for scripts), and, in fact, the owner/group info on the files is identical, too. But when I first attempted to load /wp-admin/ in the new location, I got a permissions error indicating that a stream couldn’t be opened to wp-config. I resolved that, and everything is basically working fine, but when I use the theme editor, for instance, I get a message saying “if this file were writable, you could edit it” — when the file is perfectly well writable, just apparently not by me.

    Any thoughts about how to resolve this, short of deleting and re-installing via a new one-click install?

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  • Developers intended for wp-content and it’s content (themes, plugins, uploads etc) to be fully writeable (777).

    Thread Starter kqf3143

    (@kqf3143)

    Really? That makes sense for uploads, but for themes, too? Everything was working perfectly in the testing subdomain with those folders set to 755…

    I’ll change those permissions, certainly. And I’ve got plenty of workarounds (I do most of my editing locally anyhow). I’m mostly just curious why everything was fine in one installation and wonky after moving.

    Oops, should have pointed you here:
    Hardening_WordPress

    Hello, I have a question for kqf3143. I am also trying to import an EE site with thousands of entries, but I can’t seem to get past the import problem. I think I have the export correct (according to these instructions), however when I try to import, I’m not getting any “body” text. Sorry to change subjects, but I’m at my wit’s end. Any suggestions?

    Below is a test that I imported and it didn’t import the body, just the test:

    AUTHOR: Jeff Goldstein
TITLE: Test post
STATUS: Publish
ALLOW COMMENTS: 2
CONVERT BREAKS: br
DATE: 06/10/2007 06:10:00 PM
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BODY:
<p>testing testing testing body.
</p>
<p>
Still testing.
</p>
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EXTENDED BODY:
<p>Testing extended body here.
</p>
<p>
Still testing
</p>
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: commenter
URL: www.google.com
DATE: 06/10/2006 06:11:46 PM
<p>Test comment here.
</p>
<p>
More of a test comment.
</p>
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: commenter 2
URL: https://google.com
DATE: 06/10/2007 06:12:05 PM
<p>Test comment 2.
</p>
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