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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @dafyre
      last edited by

      @dafyre said in WordPress Cutover Main Page Works, but Secondary Pages Do Not:

      If you did, then check and make sure you have a working .htaccess file

      It's the same one that was working before, as it was copied. However, the new server has those new caches, so could they be messing with it?

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @dafyre
        last edited by

        @dafyre said in WordPress Cutover Main Page Works, but Secondary Pages Do Not:

        Does the new server have the same URL?

        Yes

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          Definitely whatever is happening, it is not even trying to hit the WP application. The server reacts totally differently if I hit the root and it processes the request, or if I don't, it's an instant fail.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @dafyre
            last edited by

            @dafyre said in WordPress Cutover Main Page Works, but Secondary Pages Do Not:

            Also check and make sure AllowOverride is set correctly.

            Sure seems to be.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              BANGING HEAD ON DESK

              It's an Ubuntu-ism. On Fedora this is not needed. On Ubuntu you have to...

              a2enmod rewrite
              
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              • dbeatoD
                dbeato @scottalanmiller
                last edited by

                @scottalanmiller said in WordPress Cutover Main Page Works, but Secondary Pages Do Not:

                BANGING HEAD ON DESK

                It's an Ubuntu-ism. On Fedora this is not needed. On Ubuntu you have to...

                a2enmod rewrite
                

                Yup, even for enabling PHP too...

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                • ObsolesceO
                  Obsolesce @scottalanmiller
                  last edited by

                  @scottalanmiller said in WordPress Cutover Main Page Works, but Secondary Pages Do Not:

                  BANGING HEAD ON DESK

                  It's an Ubuntu-ism. On Fedora this is not needed. On Ubuntu you have to...

                  a2enmod rewrite
                  

                  What's that?

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                    1337
                    last edited by 1337

                    You should look at the mod_rewrite rules. It's pretty obvious that the problem lies with the url rewriting.

                    Either the reverse proxy is wrongly configured or the apache webserver.

                    Actually it's probably best to follow the entire chain. Remember that you can active the rewrite modules logging as well.

                    A small thing like using a different directory will make the rewrite rules invalid.

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                      1337 @Obsolesce
                      last edited by

                      @Obsolesce said in WordPress Cutover Main Page Works, but Secondary Pages Do Not:

                      @scottalanmiller said in WordPress Cutover Main Page Works, but Secondary Pages Do Not:

                      BANGING HEAD ON DESK

                      It's an Ubuntu-ism. On Fedora this is not needed. On Ubuntu you have to...

                      a2enmod rewrite
                      

                      What's that?

                      That's a script that enables the mod_rewrite module in apache - apache2 enable module.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
                        last edited by

                        @Obsolesce said in WordPress Cutover Main Page Works, but Secondary Pages Do Not:

                        @scottalanmiller said in WordPress Cutover Main Page Works, but Secondary Pages Do Not:

                        BANGING HEAD ON DESK

                        It's an Ubuntu-ism. On Fedora this is not needed. On Ubuntu you have to...

                        a2enmod rewrite
                        

                        What's that?

                        It's what enables rewrite to work at all.

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                        • Emad RE
                          Emad R @scottalanmiller
                          last edited by Emad R

                          @scottalanmiller

                          Ok ensure .htaccess file is present and has good permission

                          try chmod something open to the docroot and chown like www-data:www-data for whole docroot just for test

                          Use wordpress cli to change the site URL home and URL address to the correct values after site move
                          define( 'WP_HOME', 'http://example.com' );
                          define( 'WP_SITEURL', 'http://example.com' )

                          You can use the portable phar
                          https://gist.github.com/pcsontos/122fceb3d6e6e43da98d
                          wp-cli.phar option update home 'http://example.com'
                          wp-cli.phar option update siteurl 'http://example.com'

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                            1337 @scottalanmiller
                            last edited by

                            @scottalanmiller said in WordPress Cutover Main Page Works, but Secondary Pages Do Not:

                            BANGING HEAD ON DESK

                            It's an Ubuntu-ism. On Fedora this is not needed. On Ubuntu you have to...

                            a2enmod rewrite
                            

                            Ah, so the problem was just that the mod_rewrite module wasn't enabled in Apache.

                            It's the LoadModule entries in the httpd.conf file that tells Apache which modules to load. Using a2enmod is mostly for convenience.

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                            • travisdh1T
                              travisdh1 @scottalanmiller
                              last edited by

                              @scottalanmiller said in WordPress Cutover Main Page Works, but Secondary Pages Do Not:

                              BANGING HEAD ON DESK

                              It's an Ubuntu-ism. On Fedora this is not needed. On Ubuntu you have to...

                              a2enmod rewrite
                              

                              Gotta love those Ubuntu-isms that exist just to slow us down. You all know how much I like Ubuntu.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @1337
                                last edited by

                                @Pete-S said in WordPress Cutover Main Page Works, but Secondary Pages Do Not:

                                @scottalanmiller said in WordPress Cutover Main Page Works, but Secondary Pages Do Not:

                                BANGING HEAD ON DESK

                                It's an Ubuntu-ism. On Fedora this is not needed. On Ubuntu you have to...

                                a2enmod rewrite
                                

                                Ah, so the problem was just that the mod_rewrite module wasn't enabled in Apache.

                                It's the LoadModule entries in the httpd.conf file that tells Apache which modules to load. Using a2enmod is mostly for convenience.

                                Right, coming from doing this in Fedora regularly, it didn't occur to me that there was a manual step as Fedora defaults to turning that on.

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                                • dbeatoD
                                  dbeato @travisdh1
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                                  @travisdh1 said in WordPress Cutover Main Page Works, but Secondary Pages Do Not:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in WordPress Cutover Main Page Works, but Secondary Pages Do Not:

                                  BANGING HEAD ON DESK

                                  It's an Ubuntu-ism. On Fedora this is not needed. On Ubuntu you have to...

                                  a2enmod rewrite
                                  

                                  Gotta love those Ubuntu-isms that exist just to slow us down. You all know how much I like Ubuntu.

                                  We know 😉 but hey I know it 😛

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                                  • CloudKnightC
                                    CloudKnight
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                                    Well let's talk about fedora and updating killing a laptop lol....

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