I originally intended to ask my Twitter friends for a solution to this, but I don't want to inundate them with dozens of tweets, so here's the problem I'm having:
In early 2008 I created the TravelingGeeks site on WordPress in advance of our trip to Israel last April. After our return, I transfered the domain control on GoDaddy to Renee Blodgett, who hired a programmer to make some fixes. I believe, but am not certain, that they copied over my files and did their own installation and pointed their DNS servers for the domain to their WordPress installation.
Fast forward to January 2009. We're planning a new TravelingGeeks trip to London this June (more on that soon). I just downloaded the new WP 2.7 and uploaded it to my GoDaddy premium account to replace the original installation. The installation resides on jdlasica.com in the "travelinggeeks" folder at the same level as my index.html file for jdlasica.com.
Once I get this completely new blog set up, I know I'll need to get Renee to point the DNS servers to it. And I do know how to upload new themes and a revised CSS Stylesheet. But here are my two questions:
1. During development, how do I actually see the new site? (since jdlasica.com/travelinggeeks.index.php doesn't show it; http://jdlasica.com/wp-admin/install.php doesn't work; and http://jdlasica.com/travelinggeeks/wp-admin/install.php says: "WordPress already installed"; if i go to travelinggeeks/wp-admin/install.php, that's the installation on Renee's server)
2. How do I log into the administration panel? (url = yoursite.com/wp-login.php but I don't know what to put in for "yoursite" during development)
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Try something like
jdlasica.com/travelinggeeks/wp-admin
to login to you site.
Alooks like your issue is down to the way the domain is setup. I don’t know how yours is set but a domain pointer needs to be set or just move the site to a new host.
Thanks, Kim. Alas, that took me to the same page: “Already Installed. You appear to have already installed WordPress.” Clicking the Continue button takes you to the existing site: http://travelinggeeks.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php?_wp_http_referer=%2Ftravelinggeeks%2Fwp-admin%2F
So looks like I’ll just have to do all this on my local drive.
Hi JD
Sounds to me like it’s the SiteURL that’s in the database. It has to match the URL that you’re browsing the site with. Do you have access to the MySQL database on your host? PHPMyAdmin works well for that. In your wp_options table, there are 2 fields that need to match. ‘siteurl’ should equal the URL and path that you’re testing with. ‘home’ should equal the URL you’re using and should point to the directory with wordpress installed. So, in your case, it should probably be ‘http://jdlasica.com/travelinggeeks/’ for both values. When you’re ready to launch the site, change those values to the actual domain. Feel free to send me an email if you need any help.
I also just noticed that you might be having trouble just getting the install happening. Did you change the table prefix in the wp-config.php file? By default it is ‘wp_’. If you’ve left it like that, it might look as though you already have it installed if you have another WordPress installation on that server with the same table prefix.
Thanks Travis. I’m off to a meeting in SF now but will give this a try later …
Not sure if this will help or not but on the new GoDaddy account you have the IP NUMBER.
You the NUMBER for the YOURSITE data until you get the switch over made.
Or maybe I did not understand your problem correct.
Jim
PS: I have a WP site also that I host and it is at http://www.hnbdo.com
Not that I do much with it yet.
You can, generally, still see a site even if you’re not pointing the URL at it yet, if you know the IP address of the server you’re using. Just use the IP address as the substitute for the domain name you bought (http://128……/wp/wp-login.php or whatever…
I created a local install of MAMP on my Mac, which is working nicely.
May soon be working collaboratively with someone in Boston, which means back to putting this online.
You are having database collisions, I just tried to create 2 wp installatoins
This one worked, I used all the defaults
http://localhost/test1
This one didn’t work.
http://localhost/test2
Delete the files in your travelinggeeks folder/directory then recopy the WP files back into the directory. WHen it asks you for the database settings change the database table prefix from wp_ to tg_ and that will mean those tables are traveling geek wordpress tables. It should be fine from there.