MarSim

Hello,

I started recreating my site and the tedious method already mentioned seems to work.

I hope that eventually the WordPress page content will be more loosely linked to the web site domain name.

Regards,

Marc

Hello songdogtech,

I think I have found a way to sort out my problem.

First, I was able to re-enter into the WordPress back office and access all my pages, as follows:

1. Reinstall Apache, PHP, MySQL and WordPress (this is all automated in a single bash script)
2. Retrieve from my backup the SSL certificate and Apache files modified to enable SSL
3. Execute the following commands:
   a2enmod ssl (this is what I was missing previously)
   service apache2 restart

Then, I visited the links you provided in your last reply and concluded that they are intended for people having a deeper web site management knowledge than mine.

I therefore plan to use a slightly tedious method to implement the domain name change, but which should prevent me from having a nervous breakdown: I will take the original html code of each page, paste it in the new site and manually fix the links to images and other pages.

Thanks again for your attention in this matter.

Regards,

Marc

Hello songdogtech,

We decided to change the name of the domain, say from https://www.mysite1.ca to https://www.mysite2.ca. Since the SSL certificate was generated based on https://www.mysite1.ca, I thought I would first deactivate SSL, make the necessary changes in WordPress and then go back to SSL with a new certificate based on https://www.mysite2.ca.

However, when I deactivated SSL in Apache, using

a2dismod ssl
a2dissite default-ssl
service apache2 restart

I was never able to get back into the WordPress back office using https://www.mysite1.ca (or https://www.mysite1.ca for that matter).

I will have a look at the links you provided.

Thanks again.

Marc

Hello songdogtech,

Thank you very much for your suggestion.

I installed the Adminer plugin and was able to see that it imported successfully the entire WordPress database (in the form of a .sql file obtained from a back-up made a couple of days ago) but then the site broke and I was thrown out of WordPress.

I will next try to use Adminer as a stand-alone tool so that I do not have the same problem. I will report my findings soon.

Best Regards,

Marc

Hello WebCodin Team,

Understood, thank you.

Two final comment/question:

1. I was able to control the style of the various fields by inserting the WCP shortcode in a div with the desired class taken from my WordPress CSS sheet.
2. Since I do not currently have a SMTP server installed on my VPS, no email is sent by the WCP Contact Form to say “[email protected]” or “[email protected]”. But thanks to the WCP’s Inbox page, I will be able to easily access the requests sent by my site’s visitors. That being said, am I right assuming that email notifications will be sent once a SMTP server is installed, in addition to the notifications sent to the WCP Inbox?

Thanks again.

Marc

Hello WebCodin Team,
Thank you very much for your prompt answer, this is working now!
Is there a way to change the “I’m not a robot” text?
Thanks again.
Marc