jonl711

Hi Digico,
Ok from the beginning; my old server running SuSE Linux Enterprise died from Hardware failure. The HDD (which is a SATA drive) was still in good shape. Unfortunately I did not do a backup as it had gone down before I could do the monthly backups.
Also I never do database backup (I will now though).
So I built a new server, this time running Debian (mainly because the updates isn’t subscription based) and there is a larger community of Debian users out there.
This new server I put in 2 new HDD and installed as I said Debian.
Then I installed MySQL, PHP5, I then installed WordPress, however without thinking I put on the latest version when I should have tried to install the version before this.
So the problem was how to get the old HDD to power up do a MySQL export and put it on the newer system.
What I did was put the old HDD on the new system and mount the drive. From there I was able to run MySQL and do an export and import into the new MySQL setup.
I now have the old website in MySQL.
I made the changes to wp-config.php to have the information of the old website name, username and password.
When I try to bring up the website, I get a white page nothing on it.
When I try to do a login domain_name/wp-login.php, it take about 10 minutes and it presents me with a login page, but not what I’m used to seeing (e.g. with WordPress login as the title).
When I look at the apache2 logs there is nothing there.
So I’m not sure what is happening, other then I may have missed something either in the apache2 config, MySQL config or WordPress config.
The location of the site is /var/www/html/domain_name.
What I’m looking for is troubleshooting information that could point me in the right direction.
Unfortunately none of the logs are showing anything regarding this.

Jon

Closing this thread as this is not the issue anymore.
Was able to export and import old website database.
Now the issue is I load the website, but I get a white screen.

update
I’ve been able to copy the old database to the newer location, in phpmyadmin I can see the database listed.
This link provided the steps [ https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=873819 ]
Do I still need to do an import? I would think not since it is showing up in phpmyadmin list of databases.
My next question is which files do I need to change in order to bring up the website? I think it may be a php config file, but I do not know which one or its location.

Hi Digico,
Thanks for replying.
I’m fairly new to this type of work so pardon me if I ask some fairly simple questions.
1) you stated I should erase old and upload new. Since I only have the new MySQL install on the new server the only thing I have is the HDD from the old server. Do I erase the new database and import the old one (this would contain the old website)?
If so where would I find the one sql database, I really have no idea where the sql database is stored.
2) upload all files from the old hdd to the new one so let it overwrite everything?

I appreciate the help.

Jon

I got lucky and discovered there was another way to get the sidebar. The theme is Make.

Thanks for the upload information. However the issue isn’t with the uploads but the downloads.

Seems after the install, I cannot have any file downloaded from my website.
I place files in the following location:
SuSE Enterprise Linux server
/srv/jLorenzo.com.au
This is where all files that are downloaded from a link.
I use this to have clients download their image files (usually zip files)
I noticed this happened after the upgrade.

Has anyone had this error?
I get the following:
Google Chrome’s connection attempt to jlorenzo.com.au was rejected. The website may be down, or your network may not be properly configured.
Search on Google

Error code: ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

Thanks Jon

add the ip address of the wordpress server/pc in the other pc’s host file.
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
Hosts
192.168.xxx.xxx https://www.jlorenzo.com.au

I’ve looked all over The dashboard and the setting and even after turning off the settings, The Post Comments are still there.
This shows up on the home page and every page thereafter.

Jon

Thanks sorry about the mis-post

Never mind, got it work,
had to bring the entire system down and restart it again.

Thanks, the clients will come to the studio to visit as they are here to view their images as well.

Not sure if anyone can answer this in this question but I want to change my photo viewer from Galleria WP to one that runs a slide show as soon as the clients click on the sub menu.
So there is the main menu then the categories and then the final menu selection, this is where I want a slide show to run automatically or the images can be selected… any recommendations?

Got it fixed by rolling back to previous version… DO NOT DELETE the existing v2.0.

I followed the instructions you listed… so a big thanks for this.
https://www.nextgen-gallery.com/how-to-rollback-a-version/

All is good now…

Seems that all the coding for NextGen is missing.
the BIO page which mostly text is there.

After the update to v3.6, the following happened:

The main page is now showing only about 1/3 of the page.
I use NextGen for gallery display and no images are showing up.
All Headings are there, however, the drop down menus are only showing the top 4 submenus and the BIO, Blog, Contact pages are not showing up and the content within is missing as well.

https://www.jlorenzo.com.au