You do not have sufficient permissions to… GoDaddy managed wordpress

  • I have seen dozens of threads relating to this but nothing that directly addresses my issues.

    Due to outside reasons I had to move my site to a new host. We settled on GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress option and from there it has been “interesting”…

    To start with, I am no longer an FTP – but rather a SFTP. User names, passowrds, ports etc. are all different from what I had before.

    Now, I have uploaded the database from my old server, as well as the content folders. Any attempt to login is blocked with You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

    I have been on tech support for 6 hours with GoDaddy around and around and around and it appears to be beyond them. The bizarre thing is, I cannot even set/change my permissions on the system for the wp-admin folder (which I have done in the past)

    If it is simply a case of requiring me to delete and reinstall from scratch, I am more than happy to do that but would appreciate some advice on this.

    Thanks, Mike

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  • Thread Starter Blitzburgh

    (@blitzburgh)

    yes and yes to your last 2 questions

    Success!!! ??

    Here are the steps:

    – created a new, MWP site (delete your current one and start over with a new set up)
    – logged into phpMyAdmin using the Settings Page > Database info
    – selected ALL the tables in the WP database and ‘dropped’ them
    – imported the exported site’s .sql file into this database
    – edited the ‘siteurl’ and ‘home’ fields in the wp_options table with the new location (the temp URL provided in the MWP settings) e.g. https://fa359dfr.com or whatever it actually is
    – using the SFTP settings from the Settings Page, connected to the server using FileZilla
    – navigated to wp-content/plugins folder on the server
    – uploaded all the plugin folders from the exported site’s download
    – navigated to wp-content/themes folder on the server
    – uploaded the exported site’s theme folder
    – navigated to wp-content folder on the server
    – uploaded the uploads folder from the exported site’s download
    – downloaded the wp-config.php file from the server and edited the table prefix as the exported site used the WP default of wp_ … you will have to check your downloaded version from the old host to check what it is and match it up
    – delete the one on the server and upload the edited wp-config.php file

    That’s it! ??

    All the images and links were properly adjusted and the site works just fine ??

    Note that from what I was able to observe, one cannot overwrite existing files or folders on the server; this is why one has to do them individually.

    Note also that you will then have to do the domain change to the actual domain.

    Some additional info regarding file editing and ‘blacklisted’ plugins on MWP accounts:

    https://support.godaddy.com/help/article/8943/managed-wordpress-file-editing-limitations?countrysite=ca

    Check this list before uploading your plugins.
    https://support.godaddy.com/help/article/8964/managed-wordpress-blacklisted-plugins?countrysite=ca

    Thread Starter Blitzburgh

    (@blitzburgh)

    Lyle – I want to tell you a 1,000 times over. 1 Million thousand times over – THANK YOU!!

    Unfortunately for me it did not work – BUT – your effort and time are immensely appreciated and I cannot thank you enough.

    At this moment we will slog it out a little longer and see what’s what.

    THANK YOU AGAIN. Mike

    Thanks! At least now we know it can be done ??

    At what part are you running into trouble?

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