Question : Problem moving Wordpress site from one domain to another, and on a new webserver.

Problem moving Wordpress site from one domain to another, and on a new webserver.

The odd thing is, I can log into the wp-admin area and make changes, save things, etc.

But when I go to the site: http://www.greatersba.org/ I get a 500 internal server error.

NOTES:

- I am on Windows 2008 Server (64bit) with IIS7.
- PHP INFO can be seen at http://www.greatersba.org/php-info.php
- I copied all files from the old server to the new server.
- I updated the mysql database with all updated references to the new folder structure and url, etc.
- As I said, I can log into wp-admin and do everything but I just can't get the "pages" to show up.

So, PHP is working, etc.

Any idea what could be not allowing the pages to come up, yet the login to the back end doesn't work.

ADDED NOTES OF THINGS I TRIED:

- I turned off my custom permalinks and that still doesn't fix the problem.
- I also tried changing themes .. but that didn't help anything either.

I'm thinking some files may not have copied over well, when I FTP'd them. But why would the ADMIN area function fine, but just not the public area and pages?

Is there something I need to do and set up on the new server that may not yet be in place? What other thoughts do you have?

Gary

Answer : Problem moving Wordpress site from one domain to another, and on a new webserver.

There are a couple of possibilities in this thread that you should look into.  People with the same issue of relative paths work in subdirectory but not in root, and they are all using iis7 with php applications.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/php/3685216.htm

1. I'm not sure if this only applies to ASP/SSI, but IIS6 (not sure about 7) does have a "parent paths" option. If you select your websites and go to the Scripts Configuration menu, under the options tab "Enable Parent paths" is an option.
2.  I ran into this problem, too; giving the anonymous IIS user permissions to the parent directory fixed it.