RoteBrezel

Dear solidgoldextra and the rest,

no real solution so far. We just managed to change the index.html file in the httpdocs folder to create a redirection from the main directory to the /wordpress site.
I also learnt that what we do isn’t a migration because both sites already run on the same server. We just don’t know what we have to change to tell the host that the wordpress site should appear on the main directory without the /wordpress appendix.

I’ll let you know!
Cheers

Hi solidgoldextra,

thanks for your help.
I guess I have already done all that (see above).
Changed Database prefixes, siteurl, home and all that.
In the database. Also tried out different url/home combinations for the two databases (which are identical anyway because admin db was overwritten by wp db).

Didn’t help…
I’m trying to fix the problem with a friend right now, when we have solved the problem, I’ll let you know, just in case someone else will have the same issue in the future.

Hi solidgoldextra,

unfortunately I can’t do this because I can’t log in. (See link WP backend above).
As soon as I can I’ll try out what you suggested.

Oh, and if that helps: WP is a subfolder of the httpdocs folder.

Hey solidgoldextra,
sorry for not being clear.
My original site has Parallels Plesk. WP is installed as an App on it. Usually I can reach my WP site via Plesk, but it has a different directory (see above). I also can change certain WP settings via Plesk. I can for example add and update plugins to WP via the Plesk backend (as with Duplicator).
All the things I mentioned above (importing databases, checking prefixes, changing siteurl in wp_options) were also done via Plesk. Until recently, I could also visit my WP backend through Plesk, but that doesn’t work anymore since I changed the urls and imported the WP database to the admin database of Plesk.
I guess I have to change sth else, but I don’t know what.
Thanks a lot!

Hello solidgoldextra,

Thank you! I managed to install the Duplicator on my hosting site, but I can’t reach my WP backend anymore. The WP interface isn’t available on either domain, so it seems I have already told WP to show up elsewhere, only my host doesn’t know yet.
As far as I’ve unterstood you, I would have to create the package in WP and then restore it in the main domain. Or can I do it elsewhere?
Unfortunately I don’t know any php.

Thanks a lot!