Moved my wordpress files and database – now nothing works

  • Hi All,

    I moved a wordpress site from https://www.jellyfishwebdesign.co.uk/millbank to millbank.digital-car.co.uk

    I have changed the database files, to use the correct links, and the site is displaying correctly however I cannot access the admin panel…

    My .htaccess file is:

    # BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

    Any ideas what I have done wrong?

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  • I am getting a 404 error on the wp-admin directory, check if the files in wp-admin are OK and upload again if required.

    Personally, I would also drop back to twentyten theme just in case there is a theme issue.

    Thread Starter wmguk

    (@wmguk)

    Hey,

    Yeah I’m only getting the 404 after I edited the .htaccess file, I was getting a 500 error ??

    I’m just uploading the admin directory again to make sure I’ve not corrupted it in the move ??

    Thread Starter wmguk

    (@wmguk)

    hmmm, it seems like some confusion is happening.

    My subdomain is located like this:

    Access Point: https://millbank.digital-car.co.uk/
    File Locations: https://digital-car.co.uk/millbank/

    Now I have edited the htaccess file:

    # disable the rewrite engine
RewriteEngine on

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /millbank
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /millbank/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

    However I now get a 500 error…

    Just to add to the troubles, if I go into the site and go to greenhouses, then click home from the left hand menu I go back to https://jellyfishwebdesign.co.uk/millbank/

    Could be that there is some path definition problems, but until you get into the dashboard the only way to check is look at the database, wp_options and then check the siteurl and home settings.

    I see that https://www.digital-car.co.uk is a BB site in it’s own right, and I wonder if there is a clash between the two systems.

    Just going back over the notes and isn’t

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /millbank
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /millbank/index.php [L]
    </IfModule>
    # END WordPress

    going to point you to a sub-directory off the web root, rather than a subdomain as millbank.digital-car is?

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