My website is showing the wrong URL

  • I have recently migrated my website to a different hosting account, that will host multiple sites. As I already have a wordpress website at the root level, I had to place this migrated site into a sub directory. So the URL read newserver.com/oldwebsite.

    Once I completed the migration I change the DNS settings of the olddomain to point to this directory on the new server. Sure enough when I type in the domain name it goes right there and loads.

    However, if I type in the new server domain name and directory as a URL I also get the site showing up, with menus and logo but with a 404 page error.

    How can I stop this from showing?

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

  • So your website sits on the server in newserver.com/oldwebsite
    And you changed the DNS yourNewSite.com so it resolves to newserver.com/oldwebsite

    But you can still get to the site if you type in newserver.com/oldwebsite? Which sounds plausible.

    Questions:
    1) did you switch your WordPress settings to point to newserver.com/oldwebsite or yourNewSite.com
    2) did you make any changes to the htaccess file?
    3) Did you resave on your permalinks page?

    Thread Starter yourcivillaw

    (@yourcivillaw)

    The answer is no to all those questions.

    It was a straightforward migration to another directory on a different server, and then pointed the domain to that directory.

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)
  • The topic ‘My website is showing the wrong URL’ is closed to new replies.