First change database name, username and password in the config.php file /** The name of the database for WordPress */ define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘DB_NAME’); /** MySQL database username */ define(‘DB_USER’, ‘DB_USERNAME’); /** MySQL database password */ define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘DB_PASSWORD’); then upload the database and run the following queries, this will change all the local links to your live … Read more
So I reinstalled WordPress on both my live and local environments and downgraded to version 5.4.2 and everything seems to be working just fine, so far. I’ll update if anything breaks again.
Isn’t it the case that once you write up what you’ve tried, you find that one last thing to try that works? I just discovered that my admin-ajax file had 000 permissions. I reset to 644 and everything started working properly again.
Looks like it might be your WPML. See here: https://wpml.org/forums/topic/wpml-add-rewritebase-en-in-htaccess/ For posterity, the summary of this page is as follows: Problem: Some wrong settings caused an issue with “Use directory for default language”. A 500 error was showing. Solution: The client reports here that pressing the ‘Reset Settings’ button in WPML -> Languages probably solved … Read more
Sorted it out myself. The problem was, server was very slow to process the import. The process was happening behind the scene but server actually went down. When server was up, I could see all the content on the other site.
Given these errors are all being generated by WP core, there might be a corrupt install (a file/files only partially copied) Download the matching WP install and manually upload the files above throwing errors over the top
The simplest way to disable a plugin when there is no access to admin, is renaming of plugin folder. Connect via ftp by Filezilla, for example. Find plugin folder and put dot before its folder name. This should look like wp-content/plugins/.bbpress/ Such folder names are ignored by WordPress. Update the admin page and you will … Read more
I’ve had the same issue recently. Inline styles, as well as <img> tags, would cause the 410 Gone status and error message (The requested resource /wp-admin/post.php is no longer available on this server and there is no forwarding address. Please remove all references to this resource. upon previewing or publishing the post. The problem was … Read more
You can’t really debug server errors without having really good access to the server itself. This would entail looking at the internal working of this particular host which I’m certain they would not allow nor spend any actual time trying to fix. Move to a better host if they cannot give you more details as … Read more
The 500 Internal Server Error is a very general HTTP status code that means something has gone wrong on the web site’s server. You have to enable the debug true to understand what is the problem. Open the wp-config.php file. To enable debugging mode, change define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false); line to the define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true); in wp-config.php file. … Read more