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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
                                  last edited by

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

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