Not able to access wordpress website publicly installed on azure VM having apache server as xampp
Not able to access wordpress website publicly installed on azure VM having apache server as xampp
iis
Stymied by 500.5 error for WordPress on IIS 8 / Windows Server 2012
I figured it out! I didn’t have Modify permissions set for IIS_IUSRS on the /wp_content/uploads folder.
Permalinks is not working in my wordpress setup
Thanks to @rofflox and @toscho for giving me the link. web.config file was not created as i was working on localhost as WAMP i.e Apache and it required when i shifted to production as it was running IIS. So i created a blank web.config file and added the following content. <rewrite> <rules> <rule name=”Main Rule” … Read more
How to rename the WordPress wp-login.php running on IIS6?
I wrote a blog post a while back, this is a quick and dirty hack to make hackers think your wp-login.php is a 404 page. http://dave.kz/hide-your-wp-login-page-from-hackers/. (From blog post) Basically, I’ve added… header(“HTTP/1.0 404 File Not Found”); to the top of the wp-login.php page. Hopefully the attacker is looking for a 200 HTTP response. In … Read more
Problems with ‘require (./xxx)’ on IIS7.5
This turned out to be a permissions issue. It seems that in order for ‘./your_filename.php’ to work, the user PHP is running as needs to have ‘List folder contents’ permissions on the folder – even though the file is directly specified. In the end, the full solution involved turning Fast CGI impersonation off, getting PHP … Read more
404 for index.php
Do you have the SRG Clean Archives Plugin active on the site? If so, try disabling it.
Media Library won’t recognize SOME old files after move
I figured it out. Here’s the wordpress.org forum thread of me working through it.
iis6 multisite and permissions
The solution was not that there was a permissions issue. Since iis6 doesn’t use .htaccess it required installing Ionics Isapi Rewriter Enabled on the webserver you then insert essentially the same content as a the .htaccess file into an iirf.ini file in the root of the site you want and the content becomes available. Much … Read more
How to back-up a database on IIS
I was able to find the name of the database in word-press’s wp-config.php file under the and was able to create a back-up of the file using MSQL workbench and the tutorial found here http://community.discountasp.net/showthread.php?t=11972.
WordPress main site and sub domain
it says when you answer to avoid asking for clarification, but how else do you let someone know more info is needed? I tried to pull up both urls, the subdomain by itself, and with the additional “printing” folder on the end, both pull up nil. There are a couple ways to do it, but … Read more