[Solved] Moving WordPress blog to a new server….

[Historical Forums User]

Hi all!

I am moving my blog to a new VPS, and I am experiencing some very strange issues. I have successfully uploaded my database, and transfered all of my necessary files.

I have edited my internal hosts file to point to the new IP, so I can do webdev work and fix this.

Basically, what happens is that my home page loads, and a broken version of wp-login.php, but nothing else will load. If I click on a post or another page, I get a 404 error.

When I try to login to WP admin, I get a 500 error.

Anyone got any ideas? My apache error log doesn’t think that there is anything wrong.

[MJK]

It sounds like you either followed the steps backwards when moving it, or your didn’t follow the steps exactly.
Try this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordP … New_Server

[Historical Forums User]

Okay, I actually figured out what it was. The mod_rewrite in my apache wasn’t enabled.

However, I am experiencing another issue. My theme uses timthumb.php to generate thumbnails for my posts. However, it’s not working correctly in my new server.

For example, when I follow a URL to create a thumbnail through timthumb.php, I get the following output in my browser:

Code:

Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: Operation not permitted in /var/www/adub/data/www/adubvideo.net/wp-content/themes/magazeen/timthumb.php on line 154

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/adub/data/www/adubvideo.net/wp-content/themes/magazeen/timthumb.php:154) in /var/www/adub/data/www/adubvideo.net/wp-content/themes/magazeen/timthumb.php on line 313

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/adub/data/www/adubvideo.net/wp-content/themes/magazeen/timthumb.php:154) in /var/www/adub/data/www/adubvideo.net/wp-content/themes/magazeen/timthumb.php on line 315

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/adub/data/www/adubvideo.net/wp-content/themes/magazeen/timthumb.php:154) in /var/www/adub/data/www/adubvideo.net/wp-content/themes/magazeen/timthumb.php on line 316

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/adub/data/www/adubvideo.net/wp-content/themes/magazeen/timthumb.php:154) in /var/www/adub/data/www/adubvideo.net/wp-content/themes/magazeen/timthumb.php on line 317

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/adub/data/www/adubvideo.net/wp-content/themes/magazeen/timthumb.php:154) in /var/www/adub/data/www/adubvideo.net/wp-content/themes/magazeen/timthumb.php on line 318
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I have tried setting the cache folder that timthumb uses to 777, I’ve tried setting the timthumb.php permissions to 777, I’ve even tried setting the parent folder of both the script and cache to 777, all to no avail.

For reference, I’m using a debian optimized vps from VPS.net with apache2, mod_php, suexec, php 5.2, mysql 5.1, and fail2ban.

Anyone got any ideas?

[Historical Forums User]

Okay, to anyone else having this issue with timthumb.php (that includes you Googler’s).

If timthumb.php is returning an error about permissions with chmod, check to make sure you are using absolute url’s for your source.

Ex:

http://www.blah.com/wp-content/blah/blah

NOT!:
/wp-content/blah/blah

Just so everyone knows….

[Historical Forums User]

Yeah, I sorted it. Changed the title to fix correspond.

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