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1. chris@chris-alexander.net
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I am transferring a domain and site to another hosting company. I followed the directions in the codex, but I have three problems that are occurring.

   The domain is still pointing to old server. The new one is just an IP address.

   1. When I try to login to the admin site it forwards me back to the site on the previous server. So I cannot login to make any changes to the new site unless I use phpMyAdmin to edit.

   2. The homepage is showing an Error 404 page. As if index doesn't exist.

   3. When I did an update to go from 2.8 to 2.8.4 now I get a 500 Internal Server Error.

   Any thoughts on why this is happening? Should I just go ahead and point the domain to the new server?

   Thanks in advance for anyone's help in this manner.

   Here are the links to the domain
   http://www.autoscope.net (old server location)
   http://216.227.221.191/~autos320/ (new server location)

2. songdogtech
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Did you change DNS to point to the new server? You have to change your name servers - at wherever you have your domain registered - to the name servers of the new hosting.

   Your 500 error might just be a bad .htaccess file; bad encoding, corrupted rewrite block.

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