Moved wp to root but now it's not working.

  • Resolved azanaz

    (@azanaz)


    13 years ago

    I have just finished updating my site, I made a new directory as I did not want to overwrite the existing website while I was working on the new look. The main site is here https://www.mauritiusdiscovery.com/ and i set up wp here https://www.mauritiusdiscovery.com/villa

    I tried to follow the instructions found here https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress

    I changed the site settings to the root directory but now I get this error and cannot do anything else.

    Not Found

    The requested URL /wp-login.php was not found on this server.

    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    Could anyone plz help me get it to work again plz?

    Thank you Naz

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  • RichardWPG

    (@richardwpg)

    your .com page looks fine though. If you want to login, try go to https://www.mauritiusdiscovery.com/wp-admin

    Thread Starter azanaz

    (@azanaz)

    Thank you Richardwpg, The .com looks fine now as i think all the old files are still there. I only changed the url’s in the dashboard settings to point to https://www.site.com thinking it would overwrite whatever was there. Now I can’t log in using the link you provided or https://www.mauritiusdiscovery.com/villa/wp-admin.

    I have searched the forums here and google searched the problem but i can’t find the solution. The new site looks totally different from the page you see now. The old one was made with serif webplus but I wanted to include booking system hence why I decided to change to wordpress.
    Anything else I can do plz? I am a novice user and felt i done quite good with the newtheme but now it’s all gone ??

    Thank you
    Naz.

    Thread Starter azanaz

    (@azanaz)

    I have looked again and this is all such a big mess and is giving me a headache. If i wanted to delete everything from my file manager except the sub folder where I have all the wordpress file then re install wordpress wud I be able to then move the contents over plz?

    I really would appreciate any help possible. Many Thx. Naz

    Thread Starter azanaz

    (@azanaz)

    Just an update, using a FTP i download all the wordpress files to my PC. Then I loggged in to my control panel on my host and went in the file manager and deleted everything. Recreated a index.html file. I then downloaded a fresh install of wordpree, unzipped it and replaced wp-admin, wp-content and wp-includes with the one I had from my previous install. I have also overwritten the wp-config.php which contains all the details from the previous install. SInce i have not deleted the sql from my server I was able to use all the same files without changing anything. This now works perfectly. So much more easier moving that way.

    Thanks for trying to help.

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