DavidWoods

To be honest, I’m not sure what I did differently today, but it WORKS!!

I did all of the following at the same time:

I made sure all references were to spurgeonwoods.com, not https://www.spurgeonwoods.com. (I had a mix of these, along with IP address in some places so at least the site wasn’t dead.)

Changed wp_config.php’s DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE value.

Changed wp_options’s siteurl and home values from IP to domain name.

Changed wp_site’s domain value.

Changed wp_sitemata’s siteurl metakey to the domain name.

Changed wp_blog’s entry for the domain for the site.

Suddenly, the site works correctly, showing the domain name instead of the ip address. I can even get into the admin portion of the site.

I had to revert siteurl in wp_options as well. Having that set to the DNS rather than the IP adderss disabled my ability to get into my admin tools.

David

My ISP provides PHP version 5.3.28. The PHP version available is not something I have control over.

I reverted to Portfolio Slideshow 1.5.1 (as suggested in at least one of the other threads about this problem) and things work again.

I wanted to back up prior to upgrading to WordPress 3.9

I tried with the last version I had (which I’d updated to within the past week. Got the “Something went wrong with your backup” error message.

Upgraded iThemes Security to build version 4028. I still get the error message.

The secret for me was that my .htaccess file needed some edits to be able to change permalinks, but better-wp-security was set to prevent edits of .htaccess!

1. On the Security page, Tweaks tab, turn off Protect Files.

2. Under Settings > Permalinks, change to something other than Default.

3. Back to the Security > Tweaks tab and turn Protect Files back on!

Protect Files was conflicting with Permalinks for me.

Hmmmm. It’s stranger than that.

I actually installed Better WP Security on four separate sites, following the same steps on each. Three of the four sites appear to be fine.

On the problematic site, I can add new blog posts and I can edit one of my static pages, but I can’t edit another of my static pages. I eventually created a new static page, which I can edit, to replace the page I can’t.

I still can’t edit my permalinks setting.

So it appears the problems are limited to one page. Still, I could edit that page before I installed Better WP Security, but not afterwards.