I have undertaken the revamp project of the http://711go.com domain as the need of a fresh look and more interactive site.
There were a few strategies in hand to do this. Direct cut-over, parallel and redirection. The direct phase in was the choice as it is fast and simpler but more riskier.
There were couple of things happened in the process of revamp, and there were serious problems too. Some of the files and directories identified as being constructed by website builder (build-in with the webhosting control panel) were removed to give way to the wordpress engine were having some problem.
As soon as I removed the files I believed was created by the website builder, the host login and control panel were having problem. I was not knowing why and what’s wrong, so luckily I made a backup and I restored all the files back, and things were ok again.
Soon after I was planning to do it differently. This time I move the root directory files to a folder I made just in case I need to put it back. I moved it and test out if the host control panel was alright. Then I slowly clear one by one of the directory to make sure I know which one was exactly causing the problem.
To my amazement it was alright. So after clearing everything, I went to proceed with the wordpress engine uploading to the root directory after I updated the parameters in the wp-config.php file. For detail instructions on wordpress installation, go Click Here (you may opt for free course, she made the technical installation easy to understand) or find out about wordpress setup related posts here
Next after I did some of the setups, I went to control panel, and it was timed out, so I had to relogin, but what happened was I failed to access to the control panel again. I thought I had the same problem again and was so tired to restore everything and redo the whole process again.
But I thought to myself it must not be due to removing the web builder files, so I went to clear cookies, restarted the browser, and luckily everything was working alright.
It was a lesson, anyway, I got a lot of things to setup for this site. Until next post, thanks for reading