Migration to Localhost and now cant access admin

  • Resolved gezzamondo

    (@gezzamondo)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    I currently have a live site with an installed theme.

    I wanted to export this whole site to my localhost and create a new theme with my current content using MAMP.

    I tried to export my site using the plugin ‘All in One WP Migration’ and then i imported it to the wordpress site on my localhost with MAMP

    it seems to work fine but I cant access the admin section of wordpress. It lets me try and log in but instead of getting the admin page i get a page that says:

    No data received

    ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE
    ReloadHide details
    Unable to load the webpage because the server sent no data.

    If i click back to view the website, I get the admin top bar at the top of the website but if i click on it to go into the admin i get that error page again

    Any ideas how I can fix this?

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Have you tried:
    – Flushing any caching plugins you might be running, as well as server and/or browser caches. Also, any op cache or content network cache, as well as Cloudflare, clear those caches.
    – deactivating ALL (yes all) plugins temporarily to see if this resolves the problem (plugin functions can interfere). If this works, re-activate them individually (one-by-one) to find the problematic plugin(s).
    – If you can’t get into your admin dashboard, try resetting the plugins folder by FTP. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems. Also remember to deactivate any plugins in the mu-plugins folder (if you have created such folder). The easiest way is to rename that folder to mu-plugins-old.
    – switching to the unedited default Twenty Fifteen theme for a moment using the WP dashboard to rule out any theme-specific issue (theme functions can interfere like plugins). If you don’t have access to your admin area, use FTP , or your web-host’s cPanel or whatever file management application your host provides. Navigate to /wp-content/themes/ and switch to the default theme by renaming your current theme’s folder by adding “-old” to the end of the folder name. Alternately, you can remove other themes except the default theme. That will force your site to use it.

    Thread Starter gezzamondo

    (@gezzamondo)

    Yeah I deactivated all the plugins and it didn’t make an difference

    Thread Starter gezzamondo

    (@gezzamondo)

    Ive managed to switch the theme to the default theme and I can no access the Admin section

    What If i wanted to be able to tweak some stuff on the theme ive just deactivated? I take it thats not going to be possible as when its active i cant access the Admin?

    Thread Starter gezzamondo

    (@gezzamondo)

    *now have access

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Glad to know it ??

    Thread Starter gezzamondo

    (@gezzamondo)

    I’m still having an issue though that I cant access the Admin when I have a specific theme activated

    I want to be able to have this theme activated so i can edit it.

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