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1. Catherine_B
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi -

   I'm utterly confused by now. I have done a search, but the prior posts don't help me sufficiently.

   My client blog is incredibly slow on godaddy legacy hosting. I opened a new hosting account on godaddy grid hosting and copied files from the original site over there to a test directory. Then I restored the original database to the test site via phpMyAdmin.

   (I know a lot about html sites and much, much less about how to fix php files when there is a problem.)

   Afterward I discovered I should have changed the db site url before uploading, although I still don't know how to do that. I saw in the help docs to change the wp-config file to add the new test url and things worked ok 'but for the fact' that no pages beyond the home page will show up, though they are showing in the dashboard pages.

   I've tried recopying things back and forth and now frankly don't know where I am, but there's no improvement and the header doesn't show either.

   Why don't the other pages show up? If I can't resolve that, chucking the whole thing and starting over won't help.

   My initial plan was to have this duplicate site so I could see if the godaddy grid hosting was going to load any faster. I am using the super-cache plugin, but that didn't help.

   Can anyone please advise me? Thank you.

   Client blog (real one): http://mountainridgerealtyga.com/

   Test duplicate blog: http://catherinebryan.com/1/

2. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi

   the gist of it is that WP encodes many full URL links in the database, where you don't see them. When you move a site to a different domain the database has to be updated with the new domain and base folder.

   First, here are the instructions for moving a WP installation the suggested way:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

   Second, here is an article on how to update the database with the new URL:
   http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/10/01/how-to-move-wordpress-blog-to-new-domain-or-location/ You use phpMyAdmin in your hosting account database section to run these queries. Make sure you backup the database before you run these queries. If they are not done correctly they can trash a database. The backup allows you to restore if necessary.

3. Catherine_B
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Stvwlf:

   Thank you very much for those helpful links.

   Somehow, that test duplicate managed to find its interior files on its own before I saw your response - apparently taking awhile to populate. NOW I have moved it 'for real' and have the login issues on this thread:

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/323592?replies=2

   I've installed it 3 times and get that same cookie error screen. Now I'm going to try it again on this test directory, reviewing your instructions once more.

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