If you move a site, there are many instances in the database that have the URL hard-coded (media file pointers are one). You need to replace the old URL with the new one. You can do that with a search/replace plugin, or manually. BUt the easiest way to do that, IMHO, is to use the … Read more
I found there were two problems causing this: There is some kind of server caching I apparently don’t manage. I cleared that by adding a query to the URL (like staging.site.org/?a=b) and some things started being served, but many were still giving 404s. There was a rewrite rule in .htaccess designed to prevent hotlinking things … Read more
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Sorted! .htaccess and permalinks NOT the issue. Found it by disabling all plugins one by one until I found a content access restriction plug-in that had somehow been misconfigured for non logged in users. I hadn’t changed anything but there we are! Reconfigured and back up and running.
Please Help me with this 404 error
So I found the answer by myself. It was rather simple. The localhost server I was running uses PHP 8.0, while the website I was trying to migrate runs on WordPress 5.4.1 using PHP 7.3. All I had to do was to configure xampp to run PHP 7.3 on that particular project and done. The … Read more
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