Migration Problems

Resolved MrParsons
(@mrparsons)

10 years, 11 months ago

I’m having some trouble migrating my blog. I’ve followed all of the usual directions, but all I’m getting is the homepage. None of the other links work and I don’t seem to be able to login via wp-admin to change the links. Here’s what I’ve done:

Backed up files and database
Changed URLs for old blog
Imported old database to new database on new server
Uploaded files to new server

I’ve attempted to change links in the database itself, but this doesn’t seem to do the trick.

Any advice would be most appreciated!

Thanks

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Thread Starter MrParsons
(@mrparsons)

10 years, 11 months ago

The URL is http://mosaicfilms.com

DJDoubleXL189
(@djdoublexl189)

10 years, 11 months ago

You definitely didn’t do the find and replace correctly in your database. You forgot to actually put in your own domain name.

Thread Starter MrParsons
(@mrparsons)

10 years, 11 months ago

Ah ok… This could well be my problem. I haven’t actually done a find and replace before.

DJDoubleXL189
(@djdoublexl189)

10 years, 11 months ago

Make sure that however you chose to do it, that you update the URL that’s in there to your own. If you had parent pages, you may have already kind of created more work for yourself.

RockSolid Design
(@cfmwebdesign)

10 years, 11 months ago

Use this script to find and replace the old URL to the new one: (as recommended in the official moving wp codex)

http://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/

Using this script will preserve the integrity of the serialized string lengths.

For more info see: http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

After I copied the database to the new server I also always manually edit the SITE URL and HOME URL in the wp-options table to the new domain name. This way the links will work correctly after moving.

RockSolid Design
(@cfmwebdesign)

10 years, 11 months ago

In addition, in your case you would have to change this:

http://your.domain.name/the/path to http://mosaicfilms.com

Thread Starter MrParsons
(@mrparsons)

10 years, 11 months ago

Thanks both… A big help. Working through it now.

Thread Starter MrParsons
(@mrparsons)

10 years, 11 months ago

Hmm. I’m getting an error 403 forbidden page after step 5 of the script

DJDoubleXL189
(@djdoublexl189)

10 years, 11 months ago

Which step is that exactly?

Thread Starter MrParsons
(@mrparsons)

10 years, 11 months ago

I’m asked what I want to search and replace, so have searched http://old.domain.name/the/path and replaced with http://mosaicfilms.com

Have now also changed home and site URLs in wp_options

DJDoubleXL189
(@djdoublexl189)

10 years, 11 months ago

Look at this URL and compare it to the one that’s in your WP Dashboard…

http://mosaicfilms.com/mosaic-films-news/

What should the URL be?

Thread Starter MrParsons
(@mrparsons)

10 years, 11 months ago

That appears to be the correct URL, but I get a 404 not found

DJDoubleXL189
(@djdoublexl189)

10 years, 11 months ago

So that’s the URL that’s displayed in your page editor?

RockSolid Design
(@cfmwebdesign)

10 years, 11 months ago

You seem to have succesfully replaced the URL´s (despite the 403). But the page http://mosaicfilms.com/mosaic-films-news seems not to excist…

Go to your dashboard, open the page and click the button “view page”. What is the URL?

Thread Starter MrParsons
(@mrparsons)

10 years, 11 months ago

That’s good to know… The page URLs all seem to look correct, but you’re right, the pages don’t seem to exist.

Problem is, I can’t access my dashboard through wp-admin using my username and password. It says the password is incorrect and when I try to reset it, the email key is invalid?

This therefore means I can’t view the page…

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