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Hi,I installed wordpress in Ubuntu server with the help of the article provided here. It was successful and I could access new wordpress site through my provided ip address (http://162.243.247.71/ ). My main motive was to transfer my existing wordpress site to DO.After succesful installation of wordpress site, I transferred wp-content and sql file as illustrated in the article: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-migrate-wordpress-from-shared-hosting-to-a-cloud-server-with-zero-downtime I could see the old tables(with different prefix) to the database I created while installing wp site in phpmyadmin.I deleted the default tables with wp_ prefix and changed the prefix setting in wp-config.php coz my database is now using different prefix. But now I cannot access the site. It says: Server Error.Where did I do wrong? Any suggestions… Thanks in advanced.

Kamal Nasser · Answer

There’s your problem. Run these commands:

sudo chown -R www-data. /var/www
find /var/www -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ;
find /var/www -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ;

khatiwadatushar · Answer

Hi Kamal,
Thanks for the great support.
I pointed my domain to DO and it is working fine.
http://livingwithict.com

Kamal Nasser · Answer

Check apache’s error logs again and see which files it can’t find.

khatiwadatushar · Answer

Hi,
The site could be accessed and the HOME Page is displaying but none of the other links are working. It is showing 404 Not Found.
What might be the problem?

khatiwadatushar · Answer

Thank you for the support.
It really helped.

khatiwadatushar · Answer

@kamal :
It’s:
drwxr-xr-x 10 www-data www-data 4.0K Dec 2 15:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 tushar tushar 4.0K Dec 2 09:30 …
-rw------- 1 root root 1.2K Dec 2 13:12 advanced-cache.php
drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Dec 2 13:58 backup-db
drwx------ 8 root root 4.0K Dec 2 13:58 cache
-rw------- 1 root root 1.5K Dec 2 13:33 db.php
-rw------- 1 root root 28 Jan 8 2012 index.php
-rw------- 1 root root 4.9K Dec 2 13:33 object-cache.php
drwx------ 6 root root 4.0K Dec 2 13:58 pageflip
drwxr-xr-x 8 www-data www-data 4.0K Dec 2 15:08 plugins
drwxr-xr-x 5 www-data www-data 4.0K Dec 2 15:08 themes
drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Dec 2 13:15 upgrade
drwx------ 4 root root 4.0K Dec 2 15:32 uploads
drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Dec 2 13:58 w3tc-config

Kamal Nasser · Answer

What’s the output of

ls -lah /var/www/wp-content

?

khatiwadatushar · Answer

@Pablo :
Here is the full info:
drwxr-xr-x 5 tushar tushar 4096 Dec 2 09:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Dec 2 08:34 …
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 45 Dec 2 09:10 .htpasswd
-rw-r–r-- 1 www-data www-data 177 Dec 2 08:34 index.html
-rw-r–r-- 1 www-data www-data 418 Sep 25 00:18 index.php
-rw-r–r-- 1 www-data www-data 19929 Jan 18 2013 license.txt
-rw-r–r-- 1 www-data www-data 7128 Oct 23 20:08 readme.html
-rw-r–r-- 1 www-data www-data 4892 Oct 4 14:12 wp-activate.php
drwxr-xr-x 9 www-data www-data 4096 Oct 29 20:08 wp-admin
-rw-r–r-- 1 www-data www-data 271 Jan 8 2012 wp-blog-header.php
-rw-r–r-- 1 www-data www-data 4795 Sep 6 01:38 wp-comments-post.php
-rw-r–r-- 1 www-data www-data 3172 Dec 2 15:37 wp-config.php
-rw-r–r-- 1 www-data www-data 3177 Nov 1 2010 wp-config-sample.php
drwxr-xr-x 10 www-data www-data 4096 Dec 2 15:08 wp-content
-rw-r–r-- 1 www-data www-data 2932 Sep 25 00:18 wp-cron.php
drwxr-xr-x 11 www-data www-data 4096 Oct 29 20:08 wp-includes
-rw-r–r-- 1 www-data www-data 2380 Sep 25 00:18 wp-links-opml.php
-rw-r–r-- 1 www-data www-data 2359 Sep 12 06:57 wp-load.php
-rw-r–r-- 1 www-data www-data 31739 Oct 23 14:40 wp-login.php
-rw-r–r-- 1 www-data www-data 7772 Oct 22 17:22 wp-mail.php
-rw-r–r-- 1 www-data www-data 10585 Oct 7 19:34 wp-settings.php
-rw-r–r-- 1 www-data www-data 25673 Oct 22 17:22 wp-signup.php
-rw-r–r-- 1 www-data www-data 4026 Sep 25 00:18 wp-trackback.php
-rw-r–r-- 1 www-data www-data 3015 Oct 23 14:40 xmlrpc.php

pablo · Answer

Do you see root:root anywhere in there? It needs to be all www-data:www-data.

khatiwadatushar · Answer

@pablo :
This one: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-wordpress-on-ubuntu-12-04

Is it /var/www for /path/to… ? Sorry but I’m completely New to this. :)

-rw-r–r-- for files
drwxr-xr-x for dirs

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