adamjedgar

hi thanks for the reply.

Is it possible to import products from woocommerce into this plugin…or would i need to create all of the items of furniture from scratch?

There are about 150 of them that i already have in woocommerce.

hi and thanks for your reply,

essentially I have created a removalist volume estimator (instead of a woocommerce shop where one makes purchases).

The product prices are not monetary amounts, rather volumes in cubic metres. I have already got the dollar prefix changed to “m” (for metres). Eventually I will recode this to show cubic meters.

In woocommerce, I want the products to be displayed in a list…however, I don’t want the user to be able to click on the product and then be taken to another page with product details (that is not relevant to a users needs for this).

Instead, all that should happen is that when a customer sees an item they wish to add to the total volume, they simply click on “Add to cart”

This process gets repeated until everything in their house inventory has been added to the cart. They can then go to the cart and see the total volume of all goods selected.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by adamjedgar.

I have now rectified the issue. Whilst i am not 100% certain, it appears that when i migrated the website from cpanel to Virtualmin, for some reason the MySQL username and password details on the new server did not match those on the original cpanel one when Virtualmin created the new account (i must have made a mistake when choosing a username and password option in the Virtualmin interface for this migration.

In any case, I found myself with two different usernames and passwords for MySQL database.

1. WordPress had one in its wp-config.php file
2. virtualmin had a different one on the new hosting account which was different.

I changed the WordPress wp-config.php username and password to that of the Virtualmin on and initially got a database error. However, after the above-mentioned problem-solving solutions that did not work, i then copied and pasted the Virtualmin details and this time it has worked.

I have performed http and dns lookups on the domain name and it is correctly pointing at my google cloud compute web server ip adress.

The http lookup is also showing the correct page thumbnail as well

Actually guys,
I am mistaken…i thought it was resolved as it was working on my mobile phone web browser, however it does not work on any other device.

So the issue remains as yet unresolved.

so does anyone know of a method of doing this?

For example, inside cpanel i have the option to perform a www redirect to another URL.

If i were to redirect <mydomainname.com> to my Google Cloud WordPress Network using cpanel, could i then map it at the google cloud end to show its own <mydomainname.com> instead of the google cloud <wordpressnetworkdomain name.com>…or at least mask the URL to read as close to the original as possible?

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by adamjedgar.
• This reply was modified 8 years ago by adamjedgar.

never mind, i got it working.

all that was required was to add another A record (as i outlined above) and then i needed to wait longer than i did. It took a few hours, however its working now.

I ended up doing a bit of a search on what users and groups are active on the server with bitnami stack in question.

there is a group called bitnami_admins and a bitnami user who belongs to that group.

I added the <user> that is associated with my ssh tunnel (to enable sftp access to google cloud compute using filezilla) to the bitnami_admins group. I also previously added my <user> to the daemon group as well (but will probably remove this now).

anyway, problem is now solved.

the above seems to have workarounds…for exmaple,

any plugin can simply be deleted in cpanel file manager. WordPress is designed that way specifically to prevent a problematic plugin from permanently locking someone out of their website.

setting show hidden filetypes to false seems to be a bit of a stretch as anyone with cpanel access can simply turn that function back on again. Thus revealing the .htaccess file.

The issue is…i am being asked to provide standard cpanel access to the webhosting accounts. Whilst i know that the person asking for this access cant possibly be asking for said information for honest reasons…only that he intends to use it as leverage against me in that he can immediately take backups of said websites to transfer them to his own hosting servers at a later date of his choosing. He would also aim to not bother to tell me either. My assumption is that he would assume i simply check the front page of the websites from time to time and if they appear to be working i wouldnt know im no longer hosting them for long enough for him to get them working properly somewhere else with the aid of another wordpress developer.

This entire line of enquiry is all about ensuring that websites i develop under an agreement to host for a specified period of time are simply not going to work on any other server…but with the added bonus that anyone trying to move them would not realise that until they attempted to move the websites. If i was also to encrypt some of the php code using ioncube i could then make it very difficult for anyone to actually figure out where the offsite files (such as the css stylesheet) actually are. Deleting the function.php file by overrwriting it would not resolve the missing stylesheet issue

I use a pagebuilder type framework/theme (Avada) for all wordpress sites…so I am thinking even an attempt at installing a generic stylesheet would still leave the remaining website a complete mess?

Hi guys,
thanks for your replies.

I will endeavour to add the themes functions.php idea immediately.

I assume i would need to add this to a child theme functions.php so it cannot be overwritten by simply updating the parent theme within a file manager?

Further to this discussion,

Would the following be another alternative to further thwart hacking of a child theme functions.php?

Store the theme custom css stylesheet offsite and run an authentication process for accessing the stylsheet that is based on checking the name of the current cpanel account.

I am thinking this would achieve two desired outcomes…

1. If the authentication determines that current webhosting cpanel account doesnt match the original one used for developing the site, which would obviously be manually coded into the child theme when i first do the website build, the theme stylesheet fails to load rendering the website essentially unusable.

2. if someone overwrites the functions.php code the website cannot find the stylesheet anyway, thus theme stylesheet fails to load also rendering the website unusable.

I like the cpanel account authentication process because that is one thing i feel is hard to workaround. However if there is a better/easier authentication method I am all ears!

Hi a2hosting,
there is a little problem with that…the .htacess file is visible to cpanel. Someone copying the entire site will also see the .htaccess file and therefore can soon change that.
The solution needs to recognise that other users have access to the cpanel directory…so it needs to be built in to wordpress itself.

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by adamjedgar.

Before you go randomly through the website fiddling…i suggest you read wordpress codex on “common wordpress problems”.

You need to stop alterring code…continue to do this will only make things worse. There are very safe and simple fixes for this error that you need to try first.

Im suprise you didnt first simply turn off the theme/plugin by renaming its folder in ftp. That is always the first thing to do. In terms of themes, Have you not kept one of the wordpress default themes in wp-content/themes? (If not that was very foolish as wordpress cannot automatically return do its default when tue current theme is removed, thus at least getting you back in to dashboard)

Anyway, do a search of wordpress codex on common wordpress problems (or white screen of death)
It contains very good information on how to safely problem solve the white screen of death.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by adamjedgar.

Hi Terriek,
no never did get a solution to it. There surely has to be something for this. There nearest that i can figure, is to create a full width page, add images and position them using css to the page in areas where widgets would normally be.
I am learning how to use dreamweaver at the moment, once i have it figured out in dreamweaver, i’ll be sorted.

doesnt anyone know the answer to this?

unbelievable.

Hi thanks for responding.
Login.php gives me a blank screen also.
The server has had no changes. It was, and still is running multisite flawlessly if I enter my “static ip address” in browser to get to site. However, if I try to use the domain name (forwarded to this ip address from my registrar) the pages all work but it seems as if php does not work.

The only change I have made is the domain name forward to my static ip address.

I am wondering if perhaps wordpress is thinking I have done a site move to new server because of the domain name in the browser instead of ip address? (Even though I haven’t changed anything on server at all)

The solution Josh is simple. Give the people back a plugin that was an absolute ripper (Ultimate TinyMCE). Your business revenue is going to take an enormous hit with the crap you have just served up in WP edit….especially once another developer realises the crucial mistake you have made and writes a new version Ultimate TinyMCE for WordPress 3.9!

The mere fact that third party developers helped write some of those buttons should demonstrate the profitability in maintaining their input in the new version. I am certain that people would gladly pay for Ultimate TinyMCE as a premium plugin…it was that good (i know i for one would definitely pay a reasonable sum for it…although over $100 seems ludicrous considering the functionality one gets in $40-50 themes).