Site with combined https://url and https://www.url

Hey there,
There are four other standard methods to change your URL. Each of these is described here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/article/changing-the-site-url/

Can you show us where to are seeing https://url

as I have reviewed your site and could only find https://www.url

you can add screen shots by linking to any image sharing service

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by Alan Fuller.

@eulerarthur I’ve tried many of these things;

– Have had wp-config.php and functions.php filled with these 2 lines, but after that removed it and manually filled it in the admin because it didn’t change the issue

In my database https://b… is not found anywhere, only https://www.b….

Hi @alanfuller; it’s not URL, it’s the URL as provided in the section ‘The page I need help with:’ but I don’t want to mention it because of ranking in Google.

@mikezza yes I’m fully aware that the url is the one in ‘The page I need help with:’ and I used https://url and https://www.url for the exact reason that you would not like me to publish to Google your URL

as I said, I can find no example of your naked domain related to ‘The page I need help with:’

If you can, then screen shots would be a safe way of communicating here

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by Alan Fuller.

It’s on many places @alanfuller. But by example here on the homepage:

https://ibb.co/VHKqfMQ

@mikezza now I assume when you go to settings>general both site & home are showing www.

You say the there are no references of non www in the database

but those are there from fusion page builder so are either coming from settings>general or elsewhere in the data base

If you have wp cli ( or can install it )

then personally I would use wp cli for search replace

wp search-replace 'https://example.com' 'https://www.example.com' --precise

https://developer.www.ads-software.com/cli/commands/search-replace/

@mikezza I’d like to echo @alanfuller with additions.

wp search-replace 'https://example.com' 'https://www.example.com' --precise --all-tables --skip-plugins --skip-themes --dry-run

If everything looks good then run the command again minus --dry-run.

When performing search-replace’s you’ll want to do a couple of rounds. For example, wp search-replace 'https://example.com' 'https://www.example.com' --precise --all-tables --skip-plugins --skip-themes --dry-run & wp search-replace 'https://www.example.com' 'https://www.example.com' --precise --all-tables --skip-plugins --skip-themes --dry-run

This will help get the protocol for both the non-www and www over to https://.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by Matthew. Reason: Removed duplicate --skip-plugins

wp cli do I have to investigate. I don’t know that tool.

But I’ve made an export of the whole database, opened it in Notepad and can’t find https://b at all. So where must this be stored?

@mikezza now I assume when you go to settings>general both site & home are showing www.

You are right.

If you are not familiar with wp-cli I would not recommend pursuing it. You may want to see if your theme has some sort of regenerate CSS option.

Have you already purged cache from everywhere? That is, site, plugins, hosting, CDN.

I can see 20 site links without ‘www’ and 13 of them are found under the “Onze kernwaarden” in the block with the 6 images and 6 links plus one more. The others come from various place which you should be able to determine by looking at source code, as I did.

Hi @atxmatt
No I’m not familiar with it.

I’ve purged cache in my plugin. Hosting is not caching and CDN is not used. And we are 4 days after changing some URL things. So I assume that the cache must be updates in the meantime?

@website-rob I know where they are. But I really can’t understand why I can’t find it my database or files at all. Where is this coming from…

If you know where the URLs are, then changing them should not be a problem. By that I mean the page is edited through Admin -> Pages.

Sometimes when looking for something, especially within code/text, we are not looking for the correct bit of kit. For example, I would search for ‘what-we-do’ in the database.

Although I’m not familiar with the Fusion Builder plugin, it is possible the data is stored somewhere other than your database. Not uncommon for a plugin to use their own services/server. You could also check where the Fusion Builder plugin is located (wp-content/plugins/plugin-name) as flat files are still used by some plugins.

Hi @website-rob, yes it’s possible to find all the issues and adjust it manually but that’s a lot of work and I don’t know how to take care of not let this happen again.

About the location of storage; Fusion Builder is part of Avada. I think they use the database.

The strange thing is that this website was running at https://companyname.otherwebsite.nl untill this weekend and then I migrated it to https://www.companyname.nl. This by changing URL in the admin and a database search and replace by the Better Search Replace plugin. That did work for every part of the site. otherwebsite.nl is not visible anymore in database or pagesource at all. So also the parts that now are without www are changed in the last few days by these 2 actions. That’s what is so strange…

Being able to make 13 corrections out of 20 on one page sounds to me like it’s worth the effort. ??

You didn’t mention if searching your database for ‘what-we-do’ returned any results. That will help determine if WordPress is saving the Domain name in URL, which I believe it does not–it appends it based on Site URL used in Admin settings.

But there are really more pages where this is @website-rob. so it will be many corrections.

Searching for ‘what-we-do’ results in some results in Yoast but also in these tables:
wp_postmeta (10 results)
wp_posts (59 results)

Also there https://b was not found. But this trick brought me on track! The value in the database was not https://b but it was https://b and then my SSL-settings turned it into https://b… I think I’m (almost) there. Thanks a lot!