Questions tagged [wordpress]
Wordpress is a suite of tools to create, manage and publish web blogs.
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Ubuntu server, Wordpress installation [duplicate]
I need pointing to an accurate up to date method to install Wordpress. I also need details on setting up Apache for it.
There is NO official help or support that I can find.
Is there anything else ...
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Apache - Allow access to user home directories
I've been stuck with this problem for a week now, browsing through various websites, I just can't seem to make this work.
I have Apache2 installed and a Wordpress website, located in a user's folder ...
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How I visit website by inet address
I am new at ubuntu server. I install wordpress on ubuntu server using virtualbox on windows 7. Everything correct seems to me but I can’t visit by typing inet address on the browser. N.B I change dhcp ...
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Increasing MAX UPLOAD limit for Word Press (I Tried it all)
https://atlantisthemes.com/fix-upload_max_filesize/
I've tried everything on here and several more
whenever i go to wordpress and check new media upload limit , it says 2MB
I've restarted apache ...
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I get the "unable to locate package" message when trying to install php-xml-rss, even though I have the universe repo added
I'm currently configuring a Wordpress hosting platform, and one of the packages that I need to install is php-xml-rss. It's in the universe repo, which I have added, and I ran apt-get update and ...
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Why am I having so many problems with WordPress when I followed the guide exactly as outlined?
I got a WordPress VPS through This hosting provider and I spent several months trying to figure out why WordPress is unable to communicate with the web server and stuff directly.
The only thing I've ...
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only one site on server says PHP is missing MySQL extension (nginx)
I have a Ubuntu 16.04 server with Nginx as webserver. When I try and access one of the sites installed, I receive this error:
"Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which ...
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The usual WP Permalink problem
I've setup a new Ubuntu 16.04-x86_64 VPS and transferred my WP site over from a Centos 6 VPS.
All went well except that I can't get permalinks to work in WP. I've tried eveything imaginable. Been at ...
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Trying to install Wordpress with LEMP on Ubuntu 17.10 (VM)
Being new to nginx and wordpress, I'm trying to install them on an ubuntu 17.10 (on a virtual machine). I've followed this step-by-step guide
https://websiteforstudents.com/install-wordpress-ubuntu-...
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Why does WordPress keep telling me that it needs to access my web server?
I applied several different fixes.
wordpressuser
$ sudo adduser wordpressuser www-data
$ sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/html
$ chmod 7777 -R /var/www/html
$ reboot
root # adduser www-data ...
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My wordpress site shows the .htaccess content instead of output
I would like to migrate another wordpress site to Linode servers. I had no errors before and is doing great except now.
Here's what I did.
Back up my website’s Files
Exported the WordPress Ddtabase
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How to install WordPress on Linux without root privileges?
I am trying to install WordPress locally on a server using the instructions here. Because I do not have root privileges on the server, I have asked the admin to create a SQL database for me. ...
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Wordpress; installed lamp, have localhost, but no login [duplicate]
I installed the AMP in LAMP (already on Ubuntu) for wordpress -- and upon the initial installation & completion I got the wordpress login page, logged in, saw the control panel & stuff; logged ...
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Is it possible to restore a mysql database from the /var/lib/mysql/database folder?
Due to a nightmare that somehow became real, my mysql installation ended up being reinstalled. I couldn't start mysql before the reinstall, so I couldn't use mysqldump to do a proper backup. I did ...
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Only Nginx home page appears after successful install of WordPress on Ubuntu 16
I am trying to install a second WP site on an Ubuntu 16 server running Nginx. I have successfully installed WordPress according to my server results, but I still only get the Nginx home page. I ...
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ERROR: PHP is not running
I installed Wordpress, php7.0 and apache2. I also installed the php7.0 module for apache and it is enabled.
I can create a php file (named phpinfo.php) with content <?php phpinfo(); ?>, and can ...
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Unable to uninstall Wordpress
I am trying to uninstall wordpress but I encountered the following.
I used the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wordpress
Got the following output:
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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website is not showing my wordpress site, [closed]
Hello guys i have made website through Google Cloud with Bitnami wordpress config.
After i installed Mod_pagespeed through SSH. My website is only showing Debian default page. And I am pretty confused ...
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WordPress Installation Failed
I am trying to install Wordpress on Lubuntu. I followed the instructions here. Including PHP Apache and MySQL setups. Apache and MySQL appear to be running fine.
However, when I go to http://...
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MySQL Temporary File and apache2 site creation?
I'm following the official guide to install WordPress in Ubuntu. I've done a couple things that weren't specified in the guide, because I thought this'd be the best way to do them respecting the guide ...
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Wordpress Install on Digital Ocean Ubuntu 16.04 weird PHP error
Sorry if there a super simple solution to this but I'm stumped after following the other questions here.
I get the following error when visiting one of the websites hosted on my server
Your PHP ...
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Need to Access Locally Hosted (Ubuntu VM) Website from Host Machine/Another Computer
So I created a wordpress site within my Ubuntu VM and I am locally hosting it there. I have followed every tutorial I can find online to no avail so I will try to be as thorough as possible in my ...
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ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) no working solution
i used the solution here
ERROR 1045(28005) : Access denied for user 'root@localhost' (using password: no )
but when i use the command
UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('000') WHERE ...
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Wordpress PHP code not displaying in webpage [duplicate]
I have been overcoming some issues on my own and teaching my self about Ubuntu. I have now got to point of installing word press. However it won't display anything I put in . I did try one of the plug ...
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Wordpress Permissions Related Problems
I've recently set up wordpress, and I've been running through a couple problems that I think are related somehow. First: I couldn't change my permalinks, the classic 404 error that I've been reading ...
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Local wordpress backup not working
I am trying to run a local copy of a live wordpress site (for example, as described here).
LAMP / file permissions are working fine. However, wordpress gives me the following error message:
Your ...
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Can't ping wordpress.org
I come to solicit your help on a simple problem but for which I can't find any solution at the moment.
Indeed, since my dedicated server (under ubuntu 17.04) it is impossible for me to ping the site ...
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Wordpress auto-update install permissions [duplicate]
I use Kubuntu 17.04 with Apache2, Mysql and PHP7 to run Wordpress test for testing purposes. I use NetBeans editor to edit files on the server.
When I installed I was facing "non writable directory" ...
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allow wordpress to write to files
I have been having problems recently with an Ubuntu 16.04 x64 VPS when trying to get a web server up and running. I am using apache2 as the web server as I only really have experience in that - will ...
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Cannot log into MySQL
I have a very common problem with my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS/MySQL 5.7.18/WordPress running on a Digital Ocean droplet with 2 CPU, 40GB SSD and 16GB RAM. The droplet is only running one site and has hardly ...
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Email notifications aren't sent from WordPress
I have deployed a WordPress site in a Ubuntu 14.04 server. The problem is that the email notifications from the site aren't sent. I checked the firewall is inactive.
The port 25 is open, but the ...
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Amazon Web Service Wordpress Plugin cURL Error
I am having trouble activating a wordpress plugin.
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
The official Amazon Web Services SDK requires PHP 5.3.3+ and cURL 7.16.2+ compiled ...
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How do I move wordpress from a subfolder to root directory - domain.com/wordpress to domain.com
I followed this guide on Youtube
to install wordpress on my Ubuntu 16.04 Linode server. When I finished the video guide my domain.com address showed the apache2 default page, while domain.com/...
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VSFTPD permissions error. Can't create directory through Wordpress
I've vsftpd user dev which is the member of www-data. Every file I upload through ftp gets dev as owner and www-data as a group. I can access the website through the browser and able to login and make ...
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Apache2 won't restart (ubuntu 16.04)
I am reasonably new to using server computers and running into bumps every now and then which I then have to figure out, but that is part of the fun of learning.
Right now I'm trying to set up a ...
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wordpress error ZipArchive is not installed on your server, but is required if you need to import demo content
I am setting up a new test Ubuntu 16.04 server with wordpress and avada.
The server is running php 7.0 and in the avada system status dialogue I am getting an error saying that ZipArchive is not ...
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Reduce high mysql memory consumption
I'm using DO to host my WordPress sites ( Ubuntu 16.04.2 / Nginx / mysql )
I notice that mysql is consuming a lot of memory in each task.
For each site I create a new database (which contains ...
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Mirrored wordpress installations
I have a wordpress installation that I have cloned to create an app. I did so because the app site uses a theme developed to be mobile friendly. The site is regularly updated and edited so I have do ...
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How do I install bitnami Wordpress?
How do I install Bitnami Wordpress after downloading it?
I was a Windows User, and installing the Wordpress installer on Xampp is easy, just double click the installer and next until finished.
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Unable to upload media to WordPress
When I go to upload a file to my WordPress site, I get the following error:
Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2017/03. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
I am running ...
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Add User to Specific folder in /public_html/
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04.2 server with Apache2, hosting a large Wordpress multi-site network.
My co-workers occasionally need access to a single directory to make minor adjustments to files and ...
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Problem with Webserver
When I create a web server it was working ok but now when I go to my site this shows instead of the website
<?php
/**
* Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but ...
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Custom url in my local site (problem with .htaccess file)
I have a Wordpress site and I want my url as: localhost/site/contact, for example. But, the system is displaying the follow:
You should update your .htaccess now.
If your .htaccess file were ...
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Upgraded Ubuntu from 14.04 to 16.04, hangs on boot, can use recovery mode but unclear what's actually broken [duplicate]
I'm attempting a manual upgrade of a Vagrant VM box (of the WordPress dev environment VVV, which uses ubuntu/trusty64) from 14.04 (14.04.5 LTS I think...) to 16.04.2 LTS. This is the second time I've ...
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apache2 virtualhost .htaccess file doesnt seem to work
I cant get my .htaccess file to work correctly.
In my apache2.conf file I have the following.
<Directory /home/felix/mysite>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
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how to change the place of the local server files to avoid permissions problems?
I installed the the lamp server on my machine and installed wordpress on it and it work ;
the problem when I upload files to the wordpress through the control panel of the wordpress no files uploaded ...
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WordPress localhost not running
I had installed a LAMP server and WordPress on my Ubuntu machine to run WordPress on localhost. I have done the WordPress setup and got the WP-admin login, but when I get offline and try to run the ...
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How can I enforce user:group ownership of new files written by apache's www-data? [duplicate]
As courtesy we host our clients' website files. Each client has their own Linux account, and website files are served from /home/user/public_html.
All of the clients files have ownerships of user:...
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Can I create a new configuration file inside etc/apache2/sites-available or etc/apache2/sites-enabled after deleting it by accident?
I was trying to change my old domain to a new domain, but I deleted some of the configurations inside /etc/apache2 by accident.
Now I can't load the main page (on WordPress) but I am still able to ...
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Apps still say I have previous version of PHP even though I have updated to 5.6
As of this morning, I had a LAMP stack set up on my VPS with Ubuntu 14.04 php 5.5.9 and my sql version 5.5.53. I use this LAMP stack solly for hosting a couple of websites but I also want to use it ...