Moving my Site – Can't Log in after uploading / importing

  • I’ve been through this process twice and I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong. Please help.

    1. I do a fresh wordpress installation on Namecheap.com using their script. I specify admin username, admin password, and admin email. I am able to log in to this vanilla installation.

    2. I use FTP to upload all the files (except config.php) from the old intallation (also 3.9).

    3. I use phpmyadmin to import the database.

    4. I can’t log in and I can’t send a password reset to the admin email.

    I thought that maybe I’d made a typo in the original specification, so I repeated the process, taking a screenshot of the Softaculous screen on which I specificied admin username/password/email. Same result.

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  • Try reviewing Moving_WordPress.

    Thread Starter rangerk

    (@rangerk)

    If database and URL remains the same, you can move by just copying your files and database.
    If database name or user changes, edit wp-config.php to have the correct values.
    If you want to test before you switch, you must temporarily change “siteurl” and “home” in the database table “wp_options” (through phpMyAdmin or similar).
    If you had any kind of rewrites (permalinks) setup you must disable .htaccess and reconfigure permalinks when it goes live.

    If you are changing to a new server but same domain, all you need to do is edit wp-config.php with your new database/user information and upload everything as it is to your new server.

    I thought I did.

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