Server Error

Posted on December 2, 2013

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.

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Kamal Nasser

December 2, 2013

There’s your problem. Run these commands: <br><pre>sudo chown -R www-data. /var/www <br>find /var/www -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ; <br>find /var/www -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ;</pre>