Gents, I am testing my first wordpress site. The address is http://1210-1363.el-alt.com/ for those who like to look. I thought I would post this here because this is a very standard problem with WP. The upload limit is set to 2MB. The usual resolution is to put a php.ini file in to the wp-admin directory which will over-ride the php file created/allocated for the account. Alas, not on EL yet so I think we need to change this. If you create a small php command called info.php and put this in it. <?php phpinfo(); ?> You will get a report on the environment that php is in. And on that report it shows that for me the php.ini file being used is as follows. You can see for yourself if you run this. http://1210-1363.el-alt.com/wp-admin/info.php upload_max_filesize2M2M Configuration File (php.ini) PathC:\Windows Loaded Configuration FileC:\inetpub\temp\DWASFiles\Sites\1210-1363\Config\PHP-5.4.9\php.ini So. I guess that in the standard install for PHP EL has to increase the upload file size or allow us some way to over-ride the upload maximum that is known to work. Always good testing new stuff!! Obviously this is not urgent or I would have created a ticket as well. Just when you guys get around to it...I have another site to test out tonight and it is already 10pm. Best Regards Peter
Try putting the configuration in a user.ini file. That should be delegated for the application to use.
Hi Ray, yep....one of the guys replied to my ticket on that. Although the file says 128mb WP only thinks it can upload 8mb. So there is still some looking in to for that. My two test sites are nearly working. They both have the same problem on the contact form. http://www.a-man-zon.com/contact-us/ http://www.yamacia.com/contact-us/ When I try "contact us" it gets a failure on the email send. I presume that there is some security in EL that does not allow the email to be sent out. It looks like the other emails like the order emails etc are also not being sent out. I placed a free order which should have issued some emails but they were not issued. I believe it is using localhost for email and not secure email box. I had this problem when I brought my DASP sites across to EL. Not sure when I put in the mail server and the email password in WP. There does not seem to be a data entry form for it....but there must be, right? If someone else has installed a WP site and gotten the emails working then I am pretty sure they must have done something with the authorisation for WP to be able to post an email. Can you ask about? One other problem that EL guys might have seen is that woo commerce is not giving the "register" option on the A-MAN-ZON site. Notice how Yamacia has a register section and A-MAN-ZON does not? Not sure if anyone here will have seen this. I might have to ask on a woo commerce forum. I am also not getting "product" in the main menu for woo commerce so there might be some error in the install. Who knows. http://www.yamacia.com/log-in/ http://www.a-man-zon.com/log-in/ But...overall? A very positive experience to get a WP site up and running. No real problems at all. I am getting much faster response times on EL than I am getting for my test site on Enom.com. You guys can test it for yourself if you like. This is my enom.com test site. http://www.instantdw.com/ Best Regards Peter
Hi Peter, Is the contact form made from the default WordPress install/JetPack? That contact form will not send email out from my experience. It places messages in the Feedback section. If you want to send a traditional e-mail, then you need to install a plug-in like Contact Form 7.
Hi Ray, I have been testing email. It seems that EL does not support the standard WP email functions so I am going to try and set up an smtp connection as per this article. I am using contact 7. However WP can not even send out the lost password email so it looks like I need the smtp support. http://buzztone.com.au/contact-form-7-email-issues/#smtp Hi Ray, this plugin works fine. I can generate test emails using this plugin by setting WP to send all emails via smtp. http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ Best Regards Peter
I was going to mention WP-Mail-SMTP By Callum Macdonald but you beat me to it. That's a good plugin if you don't want/need a contact form and just need the back end emails from WordPress to be sent.
Hi MJP..it works for the contact form 7 as well. The two sites are up and running and look good. The only outstanding problem is that I am not seeing the "register" part of the form on this page. http://www.a-man-zon.com/log-in/. Despite that I have had 8 registrations today! Which could only have come from here because this is the only place I am talking about the site before launching it on to an unsuspecting world! LOL! I want to get the new site nice and clean with a new intro video before I tell too many people about it. I had a very simple DNN site up for A-MAN-ZON. Very few were interested...now there is more interest? Time to do a proper ecommerce site. Hopefully it will be successful, eh? Being "politically incorrect" is a bit like swimming upstream. But when men like Robin Williams are hounded to death by the courts in the US? Someone has to say "enough is enough". It might as well be me, right?
Hi MJP, you guys might know. I am using a WP tool called "duplicator" to copy WP web sites from one place to another. I loaded two web sites up onto EL servers yesterday using this tool. http://www.instantdw.com/ and http://www.international-immersion-industries.com/ These are sites under development that I had hosted on enom.com. I want to get all my sites on to EL to make my life a little easier. When I try running duplicator on my windows 2012 data center server it tells me that it is failing permissions. Further, when I try and upgrade WP on this server it failed with a permissions problem. So, the obvious question is how have you guys set the permissions such that WP can update on your servers? It looks like some sort of permission needed by php to be able to update the directories. Thanks in advance if you have any ideas. Best Regards Peter
Peter, I don't know what duplicator does, I'm not familiar with it. There's nothing on this side that would prevent a WordPress update - we run our own WordPress blog on the Everleap servers. You might want to open up a ticket in the support portal so they can take a closer look and help you troubleshoot.
Hi MJP, Ok..I will open up a ticket...it is not that important. Duplicator allows you to perform dev on a local machine and then copy the dev WP site to your target site. Just what the name implies. On my 2012 server it gets an permissions error. I gave permission to the folder for all users to control all files and then it worked. So I was wondering what permissions need to be set for php to be able to create directories and files. Full control for all users is ok on a firewalled machine in my home officer....but there should be a better answer than that. I checked out Tashas post as well and fiddled with my user_ini. It is not entirely effective and I will check it out more. I have moved two WP sites across and am working on migrating my company site from DNN to WP. I plan to do all my sites on WP on EL in the future. DNN is great but it is not as easy to create an ecommerce site in DNN as it is in WP. WP is ideal for small e commerce sites. With Woo Commerce you can get everything you need pretty much for free. I paid just USD57 for "The Company" theme. This is a very good theme and makes a very nice site. http://www.a-man-zon.com/ We have started a politically incorrect store for men. Lots of men are getting tired of being told things like what shirt they should wear when landing a rocket on a comet 300 million miles away and such. #ShirtGate has been huge over the last few days! LOL!!
