dearmariana

Hey, sorry for the delayed reply…

Yeah, the problem is that my friend wants to use an .it domain. That’s how he got on Aruba in the first place – they’re the biggest advertisers here in Italy. They suck, but everyone here uses them for some ridiculous reason (involving Italians desires to create more paperwork for themselves). ?? kidding…

Italian law prohibits the transferring of the domain to just about anywhere, and very very few hosts even allow you to register the domain. GoDaddy is one of them, so we’re giving that a try next I think.

I’ve also been told that I can leave the .it where it is at Aruba, and have it only hosted by GoDaddy… but I don’t really understand if that involves anything extra on our part or not.

Still learning… I realize we’re pretty far along in the process to just now be hearing about having a separate host and registrar… but there ya go. Didn’t know it was possible.

yeah… man I hate Aruba more and more every day.

Thanks anyway. Maybe I can get my friend to move his hosting somewhere else.

Hey, so I did a clean install… and maybe I’m crazy, but it doesn’t seem clean.

Here’s what I did:
– wiped all files from the second domain
– did a new WP install pointing to a second, clean database on the same user account as the first…

to be clear: My host is Aruba Italia (suck), and my login info gets me access to both domains and the MySql databases (there are 5) which are available to either of my domains. I don’t know if that matters… but in the wp-gonfig, I basically only changed the database name – user, password, and host stay the same.

And now… things are weird.

I’m missing random options, such as page templates that should be there with certain themes. And when I install a new plugin or theme, it gives me the ‘unpacking…’ message forever. I then have to refresh the page to find that it’s already been installed. It never gives me the ‘click here to activate now or return to the plugin page’.

There a few other weird things. It’s running really slow. It just doesn’t seem right.

Hey, so I did a clean install… and maybe I’m crazy, but it doesn’t seem clean.

Here’s what I did:
– wiped all files from the second domain
– did a new WP install pointing to a second, clean database on the same user account as the first…

to be clear: My host is Aruba Italia (suck), and my login info gets me access to both domains and the MySql databases (there are 5) which are available to either of my domains. I don’t know if that matters… but in the wp-gonfig, I basically only changed the database name – user, password, and host stay the same.

And now… things are weird.
I’m missing random options, such as page templates that should be there with certain themes. And when I install a new plugin or theme, it gives me the ‘unpacking…’ message forever. I then have to refresh the page to find that it’s already been installed. It never gives me the ‘click here to activate now or return to the plugin page’.

There a few other weird things. It’s running really slow. It just doesn’t seem right.

I probably should have done a clean new installation like you said. But I didn’t. Do you think I should wipe it and start over with a clean one?

almost…

I don’t care about the oscommerce other than the fact that it’s working now, and I don’t want to disrupt that.

So, because I can’t really test out all the ecommerce options on WP without changing the php settings, I want to move everything over to this second domain that I have.

This second domain, however, is linked to the same MySql database as the first.

I have gotten some help on another forum thread that has gotten me to the point where I have transferred all of WP files to the second domain. I have adjusted the wp-config to point towards the same database. Theoretically all should be well…

But I’m finding that my images are all pointing to the old location, and I don’t know how to fix that. Also, the ecommerce plugin I was hoping to try is still not working… eShop.

Did that make sense?
(Thanks for the reply!)

No, I’ve got WP installed only at https://www.libreriasemola.it/wordpress. The root is an outdated, but functioning, iWeb site with an oscommerce shop.

So, now I’m uploading the WP files to the root of our other domain: https://www.libreriapiacenza.it

It will take a while, but I’ll post back on here when it’s done. I’ll make sure to set the wp-config file to the same database that we were using on the libreriasemola/wordpress site.

I’m doing this so I can test out the site live without messing up the existing iWeb oscommerce configurations. Eventually, though, I’ll need to move the (hopefully) functioning WP site back to the root of https://www.libreriasemola.it. Hopefully it won’t be as complicated the second time around!

Thanks for your help so far, I’ll let you know what happens in the next few hours!

So, if I just pretend like it’s the first time installation – put everything on the second domain fresh, and then import themes and plugins later… there won’t be any conflict with the database? Or do I have to wipe the database as well?

(thanks very much for answering, by the way!)

Sorry, I don’t quite understand…

When I try to load the admin panel it says:

The requested URL /wp-login.php was not found on this server.

So, you’re saying to manually transfer that file after installing a new WP from scratch on the new domain?