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1. ggraff
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hello,

   I work for a small non-profit and we recently had a group of students design a WordPress-powered site for us.

   They had it up and running on their server, and I recently tried to install it on ours.

   The installation appeared to work, the wp-admin controls are all functioning. I was even able to backup their old database, and import it, changing the blog URL using MyPHPadmin.

   Now I can see all the pages and posts in the administrative control panel, but I get 404 Not Found errors when I attempt to navigate to any of them.

   When I click on a link on the new site (http://communitycyclingcenter.org.previewyoursite.com/) it comes up as http://communitycyclingcenter.org.previewyoursite.com/wp/whatever.

   I imagine the /wp/ is a problem (that's the directory the old blog was housed in, but I the new one is installed at root), but even when if I pull it out of the URL, it still doesn't load.

   I not sure where to begin troubleshooting - any pointers would be much appreciated.

   Thanks!
   Gabe

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Are the 2 uri's in admin pointing to the actual blog address?
   admin- Options -> General

   If so, try updating your permalinks.

3. ggraff
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Thanks for the thought samboll.

   The two uri's are pointing to the actual blog address, and updating the permalinks doesn't help matters.

   Any other thoughts?

4. moshu
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Does it work if you set the "default" permalink structure?

5. ggraff
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Thanks moshu,

   Unfortunately it doesn't work in any of the permalink settings. As I said in my first post, the links also have an erroneous 'wp/' prefix.

   This is the site: http://communitycyclingcenter.org.previewyoursite.com/

   And when you click on the links it tries to send you to
   http://communitycyclingcenter.org.previewyoursite.com/wp/permalink...

   Might that be part of the problem? The wp/ prefix is holdover from the installation on the other server that was installed in a directory called wp.

   Your help is really appreciated.

   best,
   GG

6. moshu
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I doubt the Db has the right values for the home and site_url (the two URI values in Options)
   Check it if you can: http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/

   and if the are correct - try again updating the default permalinks and leave it like that for us to see it!

   Also, make sure no caching plugins, mechanisms are activated!

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