calebplettner

Well… I figured it out. Some how when I downloaded the index.php file to add the wp textedit changed the first ‘ to a strange character. This only showed up when I edited the file through control panel’s file manager.

So simple… and irritating!!!

Steps I have taken:
1. change Site URL to https://www.upperroomcf.org — I didn’t get an error like the codex said
2. Copied index.php and .htaccess from https://www.upperroomcf.org/wp to root
a. there was no .htaccess file in the wp directory, but there was
one in the root so I added some wordpress specific code to that
one
3. Made a backup and then deleted the index.html file in the root. there are other html files but they have unique names
4. Made sure the copied index.php was edited to

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/wp/wp-blog-header.php' );

adding the wp directory
5. logged back into my site, and it worked. I had default permalinks set so no adjustment was needed.
6. Uploaded a new theme
7. Tried https://www.upperroomcf.org
8. White screen of death

What have I missed?

There are errors in the error log but most of them refer to a robots.txt file not being found. I only found one wp error

[Tue Jan 28 23:50:21 2014] [error] script '/var/www/vhosts/upperroomcf.org/httpdocs/wp-login.php' not found or unable to stat
[Wed Jan 29 01:56:57 2014] [error] File does not exist: /var/www/vhosts/upperroomcf.org/httpdocs/robots.txt
[Wed Jan 29 04:43:53 2014] [error]  File does not exist: /var/www/vhosts/upperroomcf.org/httpdocs/wp/wp-content/themes/OptimizePress

I don’t see what these have to do with the white screen of death.

Ok now I’m really confused!!! If I go to https://upperroomcf.org/wp the blank theme pops up.

What did I miss????

Thanks in advance!

I did change my theme after doing this. Perhaps this is the issue.

My index.php which I COPIED to the root (per the instructions) looks like this

<?php
/**
 * Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
 * wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

/**
 * Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.

*
 * @var bool
 */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/wp/wp-blog-header.php' );

The Rewrites could probably be deleted they are experiments I was doing, but the stuff between End WordPress and Options +FollowSymlinks I’m not sure about.

Esmi,

I followed the instructions but got a white screen of death. I can still log onto WP administration, but when I go to my root directory it’s just a blank white screen.

The only thing that wasn’t clear in the instructions was if there was not .htaccess file in the wp directory to copy over to the root. I do have an .htaccess in my root already, so after googling for a solution I added some WordPress specific code to the existing htaccess file. Here are the contents of the file

'# -FrontPage-

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>
IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName upperroomcf.org
AuthUserFile /var/www/vhosts/upperroomcf.org/httpdocs/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /var/www/vhosts/upperroomcf.org/httpdocs/_vti_pvt/service.grp

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
#//RewriteRule ^https://upperroomcf.org/Media/pictures.shtml https://upperroomcf.org/ [L,R=301]
#//RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?upperroomcf\.org$ [NC]
#//RewriteRule ^ https://wp.upperroomcf.org [R,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.wp.upperroomcf\.org$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://wp.upperroomcf.org/$1 [L,R=301]

#//if not already blog.website.com
#//RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^wp\.upperroomcf\.org$ [NC]
#//if request is for blog/, go to blog.website.com
#//RewriteRule ^wp/$ https://wp.upperroomcf.org [L,NC,R=301] 

#//301 Redirect Old File
#//Redirect 301 /Media/pictures.shtml https://www.upperroomcf.org'

Thanks for the input. I think the best bet is to do as you suggested and allow WP to take over the root domain. One final question. Am I correct in assuming that if I do this that the url for the RSS feed that is currently used for iTunes Podcasting won’t change?

Esmi,
thanks for the input. I had thought of this, but then when people visit our website they will see https://www.example.com/wp/whatever correct? I want them to only see https://www.example.com.

Also I kind of like the idea of a fresh install of wordpress.

Wow that was fast! Thanks!

Didn’t work for me I don’t know if I followed your instructions correctly. Could you please give more details thanks.