Setting up old wordpress website on Ubuntu 18.04 server

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    vanessazlobich · Member ·

    Hello, I have an old website with more than 10 years legacy + vBulletin forum and a dedicated server with Ubuntu 18.04
    Sadly I encountered some problems with transfering everything myself. So I need help from an experienced wordpress and Ubuntu administrator.
    If it will take too much of your time, I am ready to pay for it.

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    vanessazlobich · Member ·

    Oh, I forgot to mention what I already did, and why I asked for help:
    1) I installed LAMP
    2) I created 2 databases for website and forum & used (restored) db dumps from my previous hosting
    3) I configured ufw to allow apache2 (even tried to turn it off)
    4) I enabled mod rewrite and installed+configured mod security (tried turning it off too)
    5) I copied all website & forum files to /var/www/html (that was my old directory on previous hosting)
    6) I setted up new owner (apache2) for all files (chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html)
    7) I created appropriate .conf files in sites-available/sites-enabled in apache2 and installed ssl keys using certbot (letsencrypt), so https can work (because without it site was fudged)

    And thats it, if I use different directory with a simple php script like /var/www/test/test.php
    everything works fine, but when I try to make an actual website works nothing happens, and there isn’t ANY errors in debugging (in either wordpress or vBulletin), I also don’t see anything in apache2/mysql/letsencrypt logs… So I have no idea whats even wrong!

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    justjennifer · Member ·

    Hi there, all this points to your site using the open source WP software on 3rd party hosting rather than being hosted here on the WPcom platform.

    For help with a site using the open source WP software, you’ll want to head over to https://wordpress.org/support/ where you’ll find documentation and users who have more experience with the software you are using. If you don’t have a username on the ORG forums you can register one on the top of that page.

    Just to clarify, this support forum assists users hosted on the WPcom platform. WPcom (where we are ) and WP are separate entities with different documentation and support forums. More information about the differences can be found here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

    Best wishes.

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