transferring wordpress blog

  • i’m not sure if this is the right forum but hopefully i have the right one.

    i have a wordpress blog (v2.9.2) setup with our website host which is intended to replace the content on our domain’s top level.

    the blog is located at https://www.oursite.com/wordpress and we want to move the wordpress blog so that it is located at https://www.oursite.com.

    the support representative with the hosting provider told me that this can be done, but he’s not able to confirm that the wordpress backend/administration site will still point to the blog properly after the transfer has been completed.

    can someone tell me if this should work properly without issues?

    thanks.

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  • https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress
    or
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

    it will work fine

    Thread Starter halifaxacl

    (@halifaxacl)

    thanks for the links… will our hosting provider still need to make any changes on their end in order for https://www.oursite.com to show our wordpress blog?

    No, not for a simple move from subdirectory to root

    You do all your shifting yourself. When I moved mine I never talked with my host until my site was moved, then it was just a “see what I have done” (my host is small and local so it was really a FYI)

    I changed my site this spring like you are planning to do,WordPress now drives my whole site – put the whole site together, moved content around and such, then “moved” WordPress to the root (a couple of files and changed a few variables)- renamed my index.html file, took 5 minutes including fixing a spelling error in my index.php file I think.

    Carefully follow the instructions, they just look worse than they actually are.

    Thread Starter halifaxacl

    (@halifaxacl)

    ok, so i ended up following the instructions incorrectly- i moved the content before updating the URLs, and now of course i can’t access my wordpress admin, and i can’t see the blog at https://www.oursite.com.

    here’s a quick rundown of what i’ve done thus far. sorry for the lengthy post, but i figure the more detail the better:

    – logged onto FTP site for hosting provider and made a copy of the wordpress directory to my computer (locally).

    – accidentally moved the entire contents of the wordpress directory to the website’s root directory (leaving the wordpress directory empty) and realized i couldn’t access the wordpress admin site, so i copied the wordpress directory contents from my local computer back to the website’s wordpress directory.

    – logged into the wordpress admin site and updated the website and blog URLs which also logged me out of the admin site. at this point i discovered that i had not followed the instructions properly and that i couldn’t log into the wordpress admin site, and the blog wasn’t showing up at https://www.oursite.com

    – logged into PHPmyadmin where i can access the wordpress databases and confirmed that the fields indicated in the instructions are set properly. right now option_name is set to ‘siteurl’ and option_value is set to ‘https://halifaxacl.com’, although i believe it should be ‘https://www.halifaxacl.com’ (the actual website). i tried updating this but it didn’t make a difference.

    any help is appreciated.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    You’re almost there. You’ll need to access the database via phpMyAdmin and change the home value to https://halifaxacl.com as well. If that doesn’t work, try https://halifaxacl.com for both the home and siteurl values.

    Thread Starter halifaxacl

    (@halifaxacl)

    thanks, where do i find the home value? i’ve looked in the wp_options table but i can’t find it. is it in another table?

    Thread Starter halifaxacl

    (@halifaxacl)

    i’ve searched the data dictionary for both v2.9.2 and 3.0 of the wordpress database and i can’t find any reference to a ‘siteurl’ or ‘home’ field name in any of the tables.

    might they be called something else or maybe i’m not looking in the right place?

    Thread Starter halifaxacl

    (@halifaxacl)

    help?

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    “home” is also in the options table. If you browse the wp_options table in PHPmyadmin it is maybe on page 2 or 3 etc. Check all pages

    Thread Starter halifaxacl

    (@halifaxacl)

    thanks, i found both fields in the wp_options table but they are already set to https://halifaxacl.com- does it matter that the ‘www’ portion isn’t part of the URLs?

    what else can i do?

    Thread Starter halifaxacl

    (@halifaxacl)

    anyone?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Your site is here: https://halifaxacl.com/index.php

    You have an index.html in that folder which is borking WordPress. Rename that to old-index.html and see if it works?

    Thread Starter halifaxacl

    (@halifaxacl)

    awesome, that did the trick, thanks!

    i’m still unable to log in to the wordpress administration site- when i click on the log in button after typing in my user name and password, the page just reloads after a moment- i can see that the URL changes in the address bar as if the home page for the administration site is about to load, but the log in page just gets reloaded with the password field blank.

    how can i fix this?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Interesting. No error messages?

    I tried a fake account and it errored out correctly.

    Flush your browser cache and delete any cookies you might have for the site and try again?

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