Transfering Multisite to another server didn't went well

  • Resolved perezdi

    (@perezdi)


    12 years, 8 months ago

    Hi, guys! For some days already I’m trying to solve some problems, researched a lot but didn’t find anything like my problem so far.

    I tried the support from Bluehost but they told me something and I have no idea where to start. Besides working a lot already with WordPress, I’m no expert on php still.

    Here what I was told:
    I believe part of the problem is that you have multiple WordPress databases uploaded into the same single database where they should be separate instead. I believe this is the reason that when you visit your pages it causes a redirect back to the main domain. Also the XML file normally only contains text content and does not have images, those are uploaded separately.

    Here’s the list of problems that I got:
    Can’t login – Solved changing the wp-login file
    Can’t upload images through WP. It says for security reasons. I can do it through the FTP, though.
    The pages from the main site are redirecting (example: reds4us.com/jogadores) for the the main page, the blog posts works fine.
    The importation of the XML file duplicate the comments every time I tried it, and I tried it 4 times so… and I couldn’t get any attachments or videos related to blog posts.

    It’s a big list, I don’t know if the right thing was to split every problem through the forum, sorry if I didn’t do it right and thanks up front for any help.

    Website: reds4us.com

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  • Thread Starter perezdi

    (@perezdi)

    Right.

    Well, Ipstenu, all the blogs in the multisite had their images and attachments perfect, except the main one. Or at least, the main one lost more files than the others, so far, I just saw one image missing in the other blogs.

    The images that I’m looking for aren’t in the public_html directory as well, or blogs.dir. I’m really starting to think that some leprechaun ate them or something, they must be yummy.

    The boomer is even if I could find all of them in the Google’s cache, I couldn’t rename all of them for their names, so a bunch of old posts will be without images, not really a big deal, but a bit sad.

    I’m starting to think that the old server really lost some files in their server outage (because I lost some recent posts, too). Then, nothing to do about it, if it’s the case. ??

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    The main site should have been in /public_html/wp-content/uploads/ (or in an old WPMU setup, /public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/) so if that;s missing from the ORIGINAL server, you can’t really do much to get it back.

    I would recommend, for the future, making your own backups of the /public_html/ folder. I do it every night just to make sure I’ve got everything. And my server has a total snapshot backup :/ Can’t be too careful.

    Thread Starter perezdi

    (@perezdi)

    That’s exactly why I changed server. Actually, I feel good enough that I didn’t lost more posts or anything, a good part of the main content is too precious and specific to lost.

    But at least now I have a server with a very good connection (besides Bluehost let me down with their support, I never had any complaints as a server) and I can really do a backup on a more regular, maybe daily, basis.

    Thank you for all the excellent help, Mr. Half-Elf Support Rogue, Ipstenu. Probably for this kind of support that built WP in a freaking awesome platform. You should be proud of yourself. ??

    One last request: any recommendations for my website? (Security ones or anything?) – I’m going to setup a subscription soon, so I’ll get an IP just for the website to turn it safe enough for the readers.

    Almar?, Ipstenu

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Ms half elf, but that’s okay ??

    Glad I could be of some help!

    As for suggestions… It’s all really subjective, and depends on what you want to do with your site.

    Thread Starter perezdi

    (@perezdi)

    Ms Half-Elf?

    Even better. ??

    Ok, following you on Twitter and I’ll give a check on your website.

    Thank you again!

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