Moving a WordPress Site within my server

Hi Sukovich,

Could you give a bit more detail on what you did? The codex document you referred to has a lot scenarios listed, could you provide step by step what changes you implemented?

Also, your old domain probably will show up in Google for some time. It will take a while for Google to index your new site.

Moving WordPress Within Your Site

If you want to move WordPress to your root directory, make sure all index.php, .htaccess, and other files that might be copied over are backed up and/or moved, and that the root directory is ready for the new WordPress files.
Login to your blog.
Go to the Administration > Settings > General panel.
In the box for WordPress address (URI): change the address to the new location of your main WordPress core files.
In the box for Blog address (URI): change the address to the new location, which should match the WordPress address (URI).
Click Save Settings.
(Do not try to open/view your blog now!)
WordPress 2.0 only: Delete the folder wp-content/cache.
Move your WordPress core files to the new location. This includes the files found within the original directory, such as https://example.com/wordpress, and all the sub-directories, to the new location.
If you are using Permalinks, go to the Administration > Settings > Permalinks panel and update your Permalink structure to your .htaccess file, which should be in the same directory as the main index.php file.

Hi Sukovich, sorry for the long delay.

I have a suggestion for the future. When you make changes to your site(s), you should keep a log of the changes as you implement them, instead of just the guide you followed. That way if you have to recreate something, you will know exactly the steps you performed, not just what the guide told you to do. It is easy for any of us to skip a step, mis-type something, etc…..

Let’s break the problem down:
Do you still believe that https://www.sflwellness.com is actually drawing its content from https://www.homesteadpain.com ? What happens if you go to sfwellness.com/wp-admin and homesteadpain.com/wp-admin, do you go to the same site? Try to make a change to one of the sites. Make a post and leave it unpublished. Does it appear as an unpublished post in the other wp-admin?

Great advice!

I knew I was going to have trouble with this, and I still need to do it again with another website. Not even sure where to start with that one though.

When I go to sflwellness.com/wp-admin or homesteadpain.com/wp-admin it takes me to the same place to log in which is https://www.sflwellness.com/wp-login.php.

It seems that https://www.homesteadpain.com/wp-admin does not exist anymore. What does this mean?

Thank you for the help, John!

It makes sense that homesteadpain.com/wp-admin doesn’t exist anymore, you moved your WP install to a different domain. In a way, I was trying to test if you did in fact move it or simply copied it by having you test the results of wp-admin.

Do you run Firefox? If so, I would highly recommend you get the Firebug plugin. Enable the plugin and look at your site(s). I found some instructions that may be useful here:

In my visits, your site(s) loaded between 3 and 4 seconds. Not too bad actually. They are however not mutually exclusive. Almost all of the content is coming from sfwellness, except I think some of your backgrounds are hardcoded or set in theme options to pull from homesteadpain.com. You’ll see those in the Firebug console area. Also, certain scripts (cufon for example) are a bottleneck for you.