Problems moving a site to another server and domain

  • liquid8

    (@liquid8)


    9 years ago

    Hi,

    I have copied my site to another server with a new domain.
    So database and files on ftp are copied and wp has the new database-connection working ok. I have also changed the new domain-name to wp_options-table to fields “home” and “siteurl”. I have also created a new .htaccess -file with a basic/default wp-settings. The wordpress itself is located in server’s root / public_html -folder.

    The problem is that the frontpage is messed up but it does show values from database correctly, such as menu-items for example. Any other subpage doesn’t work and the /wp-admin -page is not found.

    I also noticed that my new domain-address (temporarily) is like this:
    https://domainname.com/~customername/
    but all the subpages point to adress such as:
    https://domainname.com/subpagename

    Any ideas what to try / what could be causing this?

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  • axiski

    (@axiski)

    Hello,

    Did you follow these steps exactly?

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress

    Thread Starter liquid8

    (@liquid8)

    Hi,

    Yes, only difference was that because the old site is still a live site I could not change the domain name in settings before exporting the database. That is why I changed the two url-values in wp_options-table manually after importing the db to the new server. I have done this many times before and usually it goes fine, but this time I have no idea what is causing these problems.

    axiski

    (@axiski)

    Have you tried doing it again, just in case there was any odd errors the first time you did it?

    Thread Starter liquid8

    (@liquid8)

    Yes I actually did it twice because I was thinking the same thing ??
    + I once installed it on another server also; same problem.

    Thread Starter liquid8

    (@liquid8)

    Hi,

    I finally figured it out. The problem was that my previous service provider had added these lines to the wp_config.php -file:

    define( ‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘https://’ . $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’] );
    define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘https://’ . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]);
    define(‘WP_CONTENT_URL’, ‘https://’ . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’].’/wp-content’);

    Somehow those lines mixed up the site so that only the frontpage opened and even that one was a total mess. Would have been nice to know that they had modified wp_config.php… well now I know that I should always check the wp_config if someone has added something extra to it.

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