Brandon Wanamaker

Hello,
You could probably check with your host. Often, they’ll have tutorials in the knowledgebase on making hosting related changes.

Sorry to hear you both had issues with CloudFlare. I’ve not had any issues with the 1+ year of use.

John, were you using a monitor service to check if the site was online or did you just see that it was offline?

Catacaustic, good catch. Thanks for the backup! ??

I’m happy to help, I just wish I could have said something that would have gotten this going for you.

It sounds like you know your way around phpMyAdmin. You were looking in the correct place. And connecting through localhost shouldn’t be an issue either. If you’re able to use phpMyAdmin, then obviously your server is running and allowing connections via localhost.

The only thing I know to do is to double check for typos, reset the laptop’s database user to the password that it’s supposed to be and once more make sure the user is given access to the database in the database>Privileges tab and has all privileges.

Side note: On MAMP you can change port numbers, but it doesn’t really affect anything. MAMP seems to handle it all on its own. However, I’m not sure if WAMP plays along as nicely. Might be worth double checking as well.

If that doesn’t do the trick, then I’ll cross my fingers for someone smarter than me to come along. ??

Hi,
Is WordPress installed and running on the laptop?

The only thing I can think of is that your username and password in the wp-config is from your desktop and the username and password on the laptop are different. I did read that you confirmed the username was the same, but I would double check the MySQL database password on the laptop.

Side note: Typically the root user has all privileges on a database, but you might want to double check those too, just to make sure root can access and perform all functions on your new database on your laptop.

I’ve used bigdump often and it typically either the credentials or user privileges, so hopefully it’s that simple for you and you can get your data imported!

If you’re using WAMP, you’ll want to be sure that it’s started and running correctly. If so, @esmi is right, check your error logs and let us know if you’re getting any errors.

Hi Frodde,
You are correct that the WordPress isntallations would have to be in separate folders. As long as each installation has its own folder and own database, you should be fine.

I’m no SEO expert, but it’s my understanding that having domain.com/folder is preferable instead of sub.domain.com. Also, it requires no fidgeting with domain names.

I’m happy to help if you have any further questions!

Have you tried removing the block completely?

--
-- Database: information_schema

--
CREATE DATABASE information_schema DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
USE information_schema;

If you take all of that out, it should work.

Hello,
Does changing the date format in the General Settings not change this for you?

I’m a CloudFlare fan boy. In addition to the CDN, there are a lot of other tools included in the free plan.

I use it and highly recommend it to others.

Check with your domain host and see if the have an option to lower your Time To Live (TTL) to 5 minutes. This will allow DNS propagation to start 5 minutes after the change instead of 24 hours. Be sure to change the TTL at least 24 hours BEFORE you want to switch the domain.

Be sure to update your domain in the WordPress Admin Panel, in the Settings>General section when you’re ready to make the change.

You’ll need to be sure that the user has all the privileges you set on the database you want to use.

WAMP and MAMP both have phpMyAdmin, so it’s easy to log in, go to the database you want to use and check that the user you created has permission to use that database.

Hi Nessto,
Unless you’ve setup a local FTP server on Ubuntu and have access through your network’s firewall and port forwarding and all that good networking stuff setup, you won’t be able to install themes from the WordPress admin. You’ll have to download them manually.

1) Download and extract the theme. I usually download to my Downloads directory and extract them there. This should give you 1 folder that matches the name of the theme.
2) Move the extracted theme folder to your wp-content/themes folder.
3) Log into WordPress
4) Select the Appearance panel, then Themes.
5) From the Available Themes section, click on the Theme title (or Theme screenshot) for the Theme you wish to activate.
6) To activate the Theme click the Activate “Theme Name” link in the top right.

Hi botunkus2012,
Did you previously edit your hosts file in Windows? This could lead to the redirection. You host file is located here: c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc

You may also need to clear your browser’s cache for good measure.

What happens if you go to /wp-login.php instead of /wp-admin? Also try /wp-admin/index.php and let me know what happens there, too.