Yes, usually you create a new database, user and password as well as use another copy of WordPress to create a new site. You can create a new directory in the same place where the “wordpress” directory is located and use that one for the new site. Note that it is possible to use the … Read more
The problem was that I didn’t completely clone the wp site, and I forgot to install the plugin that I used to manage user roles The plugin is Members (“User Role Editor by Members – Best User, Role and Capability Management Plugin for WordPress”) by MemberPress, and there I can allow the roles that I … Read more
Download IIS Rewrite from https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite. Install and restart IIS Then modify the web.config Edit web.config, add the rewrite code. <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <configuration> <system.webServer> <defaultDocument> <files> <add value=”index.php” /> </files> </defaultDocument> <rewrite> <rules> <rule name=”Main Rule” stopProcessing=”true”> <match url=”.*” /> <conditions logicalGrouping=”MatchAll”> <add input=”{REQUEST_FILENAME}” matchType=”IsFile” negate=”true” /> <add input=”{REQUEST_FILENAME}” matchType=”IsDirectory” negate=”true” /> </conditions> <action type=”Rewrite” … Read more
This is a partially subjective question, so it may get closed on that basis. Answer given here may be somewhat subjective but tries to cover the main considerations. Short Answer The short answer is you’ll definitely have a much easier life running WordPress on Linux. This is simply due to many more people hosting WordPress … Read more
This is just bad security method. Because the only way you can connect to the mysql database is via that pc you use. Where is if you username/pwd, you can move the site to another server, etc. So Windows Authentication is a bad idea, too easy to overcome, and honestly just not that secure. Where … Read more
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for anyone interested the hosting company is going to convert wp install to linux so that should sort things. found this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-ssl/ which could be good for anyone having issues on linux.
As Pat J says, you shouldn’t have define( ‘WP_USE_EXT_MYSQL’, true); unless you need the old mysql functions, which you do not if you’re using PHP 7x and WordPress 5x. You do need to restart Apache after modifying php.ini. What do you have in your mysqli section of your phpinfo? Make sure extension_dir is set in … Read more
You need to have 2 sets of settings one for if file_exists and one for else: if ( file_exists( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/local-config.php’ ) ) { include( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/local-config.php’ ); define( ‘WP_LOCAL_DEV’, true ); } else { define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://localhost:666/projectname/’); define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://localhost/foldername/wordpress/’); }
I think you should check for some other platform. WordPress is made to be live all the time : ) But if you are really keen in doing it in WordPress I can suggest a hard way of doing it. You can use the JSON-REST-API for WordPress and jQuery Mobile to build a mobile app … Read more