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Posted PS before I saw your reply. Changing the name of the theme directory didn’t cause it to default to another. Just threw an error message. But, once I reverted to 7.4 and changed the theme, it opened fine in php 8.1, so you are right on about the theme.

Thanks

Thank you, James Huff – that gives me something to work with.

PS: The full error message actually begins with “Too few arguments…”

Also, I checked this code against the same file in a site which is working just fine, and these lines are the same, so my puzzlement increases.

Whew! That was a bit of a tedious process – had to recreate the entire directory structure (could upload files, but not directories) and then upload all the files. Manually adjusting some things in my-content. Once I got one working, then it was just a matter of copying folders from one site to the other on the server.

These two sites share a database, and I think getting that updated was the key. Now both are working!

Thanks to all of you, especially Steve for your help. Been a long time since I did this much hands-on with a site. Refreshed a bit – thank you. Have a great day and a healthy LOCKDOWN.

Peter

I am sure the WP version on both sides is older; themes and galleries might be outdated as well – cannot get into the Admin panel to update. Is there a way to update directly from the server control panel?

In one site, the .htaccess is exactly as Tor-Bjorn indicates is the usual.
In the other, it reads:
AuthUserFile “/home/jaspriv0/.htpasswds/public_html/nova/passwd”

No error logs in wp-admin, wp-includes, themes or plugins.
The php.ini file reads as folows. There is no path for an error_log, however it does have “display_errors” set to “off”:

; cPanel-generated php ini directives, do not edit
; Manual editing of this file may result in unexpected behavior.
; To make changes to this file, use the cPanel MultiPHP INI Editor (Home >> Software >> MultiPHP INI Editor)
; For more information, read our documentation (https://go.cpanel.net/EA4ModifyINI)

upload_max_filesize = 512M
post_max_size = 1024M
allow_url_fopen = Off
allow_url_include = Off
display_errors = Off
enable_dl = Off
file_uploads = On
max_execution_time = 90
max_input_time = 60
max_input_vars = 1000
memory_limit = 128M
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440
session.save_path = “/var/cpanel/php/sessions/ea-php72”
zlib.output_compression = Off

In one site (/nova), there is an error log in the root folder. It has not logged any errors since 2017.
In the other (/italy), there is no error log in the root.

Working with the same site, current status –

Renamed Folder: wpcontent/plugins.hold
Replaced wp-settings.php with fresh version
Enabled debugging and debug logging in wp-config.php
Still no file debug.log present in wp-content folder
https://jaspper.us/nova returns message “This page isn’t working jaspper.us is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500

Is there a way to open the site directly from the server control panel?

Edited the wp-config.php file in one site to include the following code (inserted before
*that’s all stop editing.

// Enable WP_DEBUG mode
define( ‘WP_DEBUG’, true );

// Enable Debug logging to the /wp-content/debug.log file
define( ‘WP_DEBUG_LOG’, true );

// Disable display of errors and warnings
define( ‘WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY’, false );
@ini_set( ‘display_errors’, 0 );

// Use dev versions of core JS and CSS files (only needed if you are modifying these core files)
define( ‘SCRIPT_DEBUG’, true );

This did not result in the creation of a file debug.log in the wp-content directory when attempting to open the site. Seems it should have.

I changed the plugins folder to plugins.hold. I verified through phpMyadmin that this did change the line in wp_options/option_name column/active_plugins row/option_value field to: a:0:{}. Disabling plugins did not help.

I also tried to edit the wp-config.php file to enable debugging, but did not find the specified lines:
define( ‘WP_DEBUG’, true );
define( ‘WP_DEBUG’, false );
Am I to insert the appropriate line? If so, where?

The error log is empty.

I think the theme or the photo gallery might be the problem. Is there a way to change the theme without accessing the admin panel? I cannot access https://…./admin.

Thanks