Questions tagged [windows]
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'wp' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file
I can't get WP-CLI to run on Windows.
Downloaded https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar to c:\wp-cli\wp-cli.phar,
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Failed to upload image on localhost
I am trying to edit my theme on a fresh installation via the customization page. When I try to upload the site logo via the media uploader, I get the following error:
“logo.png” has failed to upload ...
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WP Cli will not execute on Windows
I have tried to install Wordpress CLI on my windows machine running windows 10.
But for some reason everytime i try to run the
wp
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'sh' is not recognized as an internal or external ...
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Is Windows hosting a bad idea for wp?
My client used Windows hosting. It seems to be giving a lot of trouble and I'm wondering if Windows hosting was a good option.
My research on the net lead me to this article that advises against it: ...
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Windows-hosted new site shows no preview: "Future home of something quite cool." message is displayed
I added a theme and made a sample home page.
What could cause the site to display no previews or even display no changes when published?
Note: I did my best to search similar previously-asked ...
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WordPress fails to install with "Can't Select Database" Error (WAMPServer)
UPDATE: 2020-07-12 I tried installing on Windows 10 64-bit and it failed to install WordPress with the same database error as on Windows 7. That tells me that either there is a bug in WAMPServer 3.2.0 ...
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Permalinks on Windows IIS not working and web.config breaks site - does wordpress not support windows server now, if so how?
I have a large wordpress site that I migrated from AWS/Linux to a different host that is Windows Server 2016.
I have been developing on wordpress for years but this is my first time back on Windows ...
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cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
I've been researching for hours, but I don't seem to find a solution. I've tried every single solution I've found.
We're running Wordpress 5.4 with PHP v7.4 in a Windows 2019 server that's behind an ...
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Accessing private posts through REST API, same code that works in remote doesn't in local
I am capable of fetching private posts through the wp rest api by calling
mydomain/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?status=private&slug=whatever
I am authenticating well and receiving a valid token, no ...
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Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() - Wordpress installation
Trying to install wordpress without xamp on my local machine. Version info:
Wordpress: 5.2.3
PHP: 7.3.9
Apache: 2.4.41
When accessing this url -http://localhost:8080/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php, ...
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Setting up Wordpress Locally on WAMP for a new site (with one already)
Here are the steps I took in downloading and setting up WordPress on a WAMP (Windows, Apache2, MySQL, PHP):
1.) Download WAMP Server, here: WAMP Server Installation
2.) Download WordPress on ...
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Custom permalink gives 404 error only in some pages
Some pages of my Wordpress don't work after creating a custom permalink for products URL in my localhost environment. Home page works, but for example /contact page returns 404. If I look at Apache ...
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Is XAMPP faster than running LAMP in WSL on Windows 10? [closed]
I've been using Local by Flywheel for my local dev environment but recently it started acting weird so I decided, that since I'd finally learned a decent amount of CLI, maybe I should try just using ...
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Trying to install Wordpress on WSL Windows 10, and running into issues with wp-cli and "wp db create"
Okay so I'm following this tutorial:
https://hellojason.net/blog/how-to-setup-wordpress-locally-on-windows-subsystem-for-linux/
I had to do a bunch of monkey around to get MySQL to work because for ...
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WAMP SERVER Command Prompt SET PATH=%PATH%
My WAMP SERVER will not connect to website in wamp server after I went to command prompt and typed in PATH=%PATH% is there any way to revert this???
I'm an idiot I admit it.
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WP-CLI plugin delete command fails silently
I have just started trying out WP-CLI and did a basic test of installing a plugin.
It installed fine, no issue. However, the plugin delete command fails silently, with no error messages and the ...
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Search and Replace in Windows XAMPP site
In my Ubuntu VPS, to search and replace in a DB of a site I do for example:
cd /var/www/html/example.com
sudo wp search-replace "http://" "https://" --all-tables
Yet in Windows 10 I use XAMPP and ...
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Using Windows Server 2012 How to Move Uploads Folder to another hard drive
Using Wordpress as an intranet. The Wordpress installation is on C however this drive is limited and wanting to use another hard drive on the server (Hard Drive E) for my uploads folder.
Am I able to ...
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One-click WP site generation wih wp-cli on Windows
If I run these commands sequentially in windows CMD, I get a site up and running quite quickly.
wp core download
wp core config --dbname=my_wp_database --dbuser=root --dbpass=my-db-password
wp core ...
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Saving Permalinks Results in 403 MAMP (Windows)
I am trying to setup a local environment on my Windows 10 machine (to knock out some overtime) but keep running into a problem. Let me start with my environment workflow on Mac OSX... I have developed ...
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html to posts, jpg to featured image, zip file contains jpg and html
I have many zip files that each zip file contain a jpg image and a html file
how do I make the html to be the wordpress post and jpg image to be the featured image
any help is appreciated
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Posting with slug "favicon" gets redirected
I've created a WordPress posting with an URL slug "favicon":
https://blog.zeta-producer.com/favicon/
Unfortunately this seems to somehow interfere with the favicon, because instead of showing the ...
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WP CLI Shell not working on Windows
I recently installed WP-CLI on windows with the instructions below. However when I type wp shell I get en error: The system cannot find the path specified.
One solution on github says:
Psysh is not ...
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strange behaviour with "rin" in brand new installation of 4.6.1 [closed]
I am used to install WordPress by myself manually so I can control everything.
I basically grab the latest:
PHP (5.6 NTS x64)
MySQL Community Server
WordPress (4.6.1)
Done it hundreads of times ...
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wordpress http to https windows server
Having a few issues getting things to work after changing wordpress from http to https on a windows sever. The web.config file is a bit of a mare to work with and the hosting company seems to think ...
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Does Wordpress Support Using Named Pipes on the Windows Operating System?
Okay, suppose I wish to disable networking completely on a development machine running MariaDB 10.1.14, and instead use Windows' Named Pipes/Sockets. I'm using a local copy of Apache (2.4.23 x64 VC14),...
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When attempting to update a self-hosted WordPress site, I'm seeing "ASN1 unknown message digest algorithm"
I've got several WordPress sites that I self-host on a Windows Server.
When attempting to perform the upgrade process, via /wp-admin/update-core.php?action=do-core-upgrade I see the following error:
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How to update WP-CLI on Windows via Composer?
I installed wp-cli back in April on my Windows box using composer. I believe with the following command: composer create-project wp-cli/wp-cli --no-dev as outlined in the alternate install methods on ...
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Migrating WordPress from Windows Server 2008 R2 (IIS v7.5) to CentOS
The agency I work for have purchased a new server, bringing our total up to 4. The 3 servers we had previously are all running Windows Server 2008 R2, whereas this new one is running CentOS, ...
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Newbie: Multiple WP sites on Windwos 2012 IIS
Newbie Question:
I have a Windows 2012 server with an existing ASP.NET / HTTPS site on it running a small SQL Server as well. My customer wants to add a dozen or so WordPress sites, one for each of ...
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Wp_mail() function not working in Windows and MAC OS
Not getting mails when sent from Windows OS and MAC OS but getting when sent from Linux OS.
I tried sending mails from LINUX OS,Windows and MAC OS LINUX sending me the mails as it should do but ...
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Offline Wordpress Application
I have to Document some Work and i thought to use WP as a platform to work with others. We have articles, pictures in different categoried and could use the tag function. A Search function is ...
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Perfmon performance counters on WAMP
I work on an WordPress site for a business. I'm using WAMP: Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, sp 1, 64-bit. Apache version 2.4 MySql version 5.6.9 PHP version 5.4.13 8 GB RAM Intel Xeon CPU 2.93GHz (4 ...
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Permissions to wp-content folder in Windows Server 2012
I've made some tests to solve this problem: trying to update some plugins via Wordpress backend I always receive a "Unable to create folder" error.
So I've initially added IIS_IUSRS with Read/Write/...
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Connect to MySQL using Windows Authentication
Is it possible to have Wordpress/PHP connect to my MySQL database using Windows Authentication on IIS? I can connect just fine using the normal MySQL command line utilities. I get the following error ...
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Wordpress on XAMPP over my home network [closed]
I've installed WordPress on XAMPP on a Windows 7 machine (192.168.3.3) on my home network. I can see the XAMPP Welcome page from my other Win7 machine (192.168.3.2) but cannot access Wordpress from it?...
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How can I diagnose a slow Wordpress admin?
Over the past few months the admin pages on my wordpress multisite site (around 80 sites) have been taking around 20 seconds to load. I am running the latest version of wordpress (version 4.1).
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All links in my site start with localhost?
This is my website http://173.214.165.83/. The home page shows, but all links start with localhost/wordpress, rather than the current address, which is 173.214.165.83.
The server is windows and runs ...
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All pages lead to home
I've recently moved from linux to windows hosting, and now all of my permalinks just redirect to the homepage. I've selected the correct structure in Settings->Permalinks and have the following in my ...
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Remove index.php from WP 8.0 install migrated to IIS from Apache (still detecting Apache server)?
I was developing this WP site using WAMP at work, and now suddenly we're switching it up and putting it on a Windows server (2003). I can tell from the Permalinks Settings page in wp-admin that it ...
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Problems with 'require (./xxx)' on IIS7.5
I'm not sure if this is best suited to the Wordpress SE site or if it should be on Server Fault or SO...
Either way:
I'm having problems running Wordpress on a brand new 2008R2 server running IIS7.5....
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Can't connect to my Wordpress website using Windows 8 app?
Im trying to connect to my Wordpress site (self hosted) through the Windows 8 app. First, after giving the Wordpress.com account details, it show my site and ask me to Authorize. after authorizing, it ...
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One blog inside another
I have a question about having two blogs at the same host simultaneously. Here is my scenario:
The first blog is hosted in the root directory http://mathosproject.com/, and the second is hosted in a ...
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Upload Image Not accessible
I'm getting a 500 error when trying to access the full version of any image. As soon as it's uploaded to the server, it becomes 'unavailable', and each file cannot be accessed/deleted/anything - like ...
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Multisite on Windows with wildcard subdomains
I want to create a local network on a Windows machine using subdomains. I do not want to edit the hosts file for each new subdomain. But Windows does not support wildcard subdomains, and the Codex ...
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Why doesn't WP_PLUGIN_DIR definition use DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR?
Whilst writing some code that backs-up a plugin, I hit a problem with 'the wrong kind of directory slash' on my windows dev environment.
Tracking it through I find in default-constants.php:91
define(...
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Upload media error: unable to create directory (windows hosting)
Trying to upload any kind of media on a new WP install is failing due to a messed up media folder path:
Unable to create directory D:\webs\bucmio\wp/wp-content/uploads. Is
its parent directory ...
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moving server can not login
I design my site in win7 system, and today before a server rent, I moving my blog from win7 to my another computer witch is installed CentOS 5.5 for a last test, I have reference the article http://...
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Different development environments (Mac & Windows)
I am trying to synchronize development between a Windows user (WAMP) and a Mac user (Regular Apache).
Windows User (me)
Since I use IIS I need my port 80 so I have changed the ports on WAMP to :666.
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Windows 7 download WordPress and load into LAMP stack and configure
What's the quickest way to create a Windows instance of an existing WordPress site assuming I've got the backup of the code and DB from the server?
I have played around with various LAMP stacks but ...
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