I changed URL through Settings > General and now cannot access the wp-admin.

  • I was hired by somebody to change over their URL. I went through Settings > General as instructed, but now going to newdomain.com/wp-admin redirects to this:
    https://newdomain.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fnewdomain.com%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1

    I try to log in now, but am getting invalid user.
    Im not exactly sure how to proceed. I dont have ftp access, yet, was I supposed to upload the core files to the new site first? Is that my issue?

    Im not exactly sure which version its running either

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  • It looks like there just happens to also be a WordPress site on the new domain that you’re tying to log into.

    The process for moving a site would depend on where it was going to be hosted. If you just wanted the site to stay where it was but get a new domain, you’d first need to point that domain to the hosting for the site that’s moving there. Then when that’s done you’d update the URL.

    You’ll either need to do that now, or get FTP & hosting access to whatever’s on ‘newdomain.com’ now and replace it with the files and database of the site that you’re moving.

    Borge

    (@joeborge0914)

    Changing the WordPress Website’s Domain is a bit critical.

    1. You need to copy the database and website files to the server of the new domain name.
    2. You will be recreating the database name and database user (allow al previlidges)
    3. Import database
    4. Access phpmyadmin and change the site URL there ( Instructions )
    5. Access Settings> General, change the Site Address (URL) as well or add this on the wp-config.php

    define(‘WP_HOME’,’https://example.com’);
    define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’https://example.com’);

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