Website not available for admin's IP after move

  • I’ve developed a site on a temporaly domain. There everything worked fine.

    And after a move it works still fine for me and other people.

    But everyone from the IP of the admin (what also was who I logged on during developing) can’t reach the site now. Also the people that didn’t logon to the development area can’t reach the site now.

    They can reach a ‘normal’ testfile on the site, so there is not IP-block or something.

    Anybody has an idea about what’s going on here?

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  • How did you move the site?

    When you move a site, you must replace the old URLs and paths with the new ones. Some of these are stored in the database in ‘serialized’ form where the string length is stored along with the string. You must use special tools to search and replace the old values with the new ones.

    If you replace an old URL with a new one of a different length, it will break the serialization, causing many different problems.

    If the old site is still available, you can use the steps shown in this article to copy the site: https://wordpress.mcdspot.com/2012/08/22/migrating-a-wordpress-site-step-by-step/

    If the old site is not available, and you still have a copy of the database from that site, you should be able to use this tool to make the changes: https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/

    Thread Starter MiKeZZa

    (@mikezza)

    I’ve moved the files with PHP, changed the wp-config.php file and changed the database with the ‘Search-Replace-DB-master’ tool by interconnectit.

    You think it can be possibly be caused by this?

    The admin works fine for my account/IP. And the website also works great for all other people/IP’s where I’ve tested. Only not on the IP of my customer…

    I can’t be sure what caused the problem. I just know that if you don’t replace the serialized strings properly you can have many different problems.

    Can you copy the site again using the steps I posted?

    Thread Starter MiKeZZa

    (@mikezza)

    I’ve copied the site on this way.

    Now I wait for my customer to reply. I see a good working website…

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