I have the files that were used for the WordPress install. I have the associated database that went along with that install. Now I am trying to reconnect them both back together. The site was finished! Everything was working! And now I have no site.
A series of events happened. As we were about to push the subdomain live we noticed a staging server that we were no longer using. So, in my hubris, I deleted it. That in turn deleted the site that was live. It was the ‘old’ site but that was gone. I reached out to Bluehost and asked if they could rollback to a date that seemed fine. But then our DBs and more importantly, our newsite.mainsite.com got deleted as well. Now, I did zip up the contents of all of the important docs for newsite.mainsite.com and the DBs but I don’t want to put it back up on to the bluehost account. I had originally built the site locally in a docker instance (should have stayed that way) and would like to fix all the things locally and have looked into LocalWP but they use nginx and mysql where I am using phpMyAdmin and am not sure that is going to be able to transfer over the way that I want it to.
I am just at a loss. The correct files are up on the bluehost site as are the databases. I got the site to work for a little bit and things were srsly eff’d looking but I am tossing that up to that the DB that they rolled back to was an older version.
I have spent months on this site and I am desperate.
Is there a way to hook everything back up on the bluehost server?
Should I try building it back up locally in a docker instance?
How do I explain to my boss what happened and why I am unable to *just* make it all work again?
How do I get it to work again.?
I have made several attempts at making sub-domains and staging servers but they are all based off of mainsite.com and when I try and go to check the subD/staging all my browsers bump me to mainsite.com so I can’t even see what progress is even being made.
It’s a mess, I know. I’m a mess, I know. I just want to be done with this site so I can move on with my life.
Any ***any*** help is very much appreciated.
Sorry for the wall of text.
TL;DR: WordPress installs got deleted. I was able to get oldsite.com back up and running so our asses aren’t hanging in the wind but now my new site is a mess.
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