I found my VPS supported REDIS cache and blindly enabled it without reading the instructions. It worked great – so I enabled it on all my other WP sites on the same VPS. I very quickly learned that unless I had changed the prefix of the WP tables (no matter the database they were stored in) this was going to cause problems, it did just that.
I managed to disable the cache and restore 7 websites pretty quickly. Though a relatively new website with about 40 hours into it, no longer lets me into the admin console. My username and password is recognised but all I get is “Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page.”. I launched the console and checked the health of the DB, which comes back fine. I can see that the group permissions appear to be broken and I’ve considered rebuilding the tables but I’m not sure which to start with.
I thought I would be smart and use the WP console to recreate a new admin group, though this fails.
This all happened a few months ago and I’ve just left the website to coast for a while but I need to crack on with monetising it. Happy to get in deep with the DBs and console. Just need a WP guru to steer the ship.
I am not able to provide the site URL, thanks for understanding.
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