Problems moving site from dev to root

  • richseals

    (@richseals)


    12 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,

    I made the mistake of thinking all I had to do to move my site was move the files from out of my ‘dev’ folder to my root folder… how wrong was I! It’s not until it didn’t work I realised I should have researched first.

    I have read all the info on changing the config file and index, but it still didn’t work, so I moved all the files back and now I can’t log in.

    my site: http://www.nottinghamdrivertraining.co.uk

    I installed WP in to a ‘dev’ folder and all worked fine until I tried to move it. I have now moved back and I have lost the login / admin panel and now the site (via the dev folder) is not showing the proper WP site. Unfortunately, I am not back to square 1, but worse than when I started as it’ not working at all.

    http://nottinghamdrivertraining.co.uk/dev/

    In my 4 hours of trying to fix this, I believe I have done more harm than good and probably altered something I shouldn’t have.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Many Thanks

    Richard

    Thanks

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    I installed WP in to a ‘dev’ folder and all worked fine until I tried to move it. I have now moved back and I have lost the login / admin panel and now the site (via the dev folder) is not showing the proper WP site.

    Do you have DB backup from before you moved the site from ‘dev’?
    Yes? Try restoring from backup: http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup

    Thread Starter richseals

    (@richseals)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,

    Thanks for the response.

    I have just restored the MySQL database and still the same.

    When I type in /wp-admin

    This is the response: ‘The requested URL /wp-login.php was not found on this server.’

    Any more ideas?

    Thread Starter richseals

    (@richseals)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    I have just added the following to my config file and now I’m back to square 1.

    define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://www.example.com’);
    define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://www.example.com’);

    I’m going to follow the instructions this time…

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    -If the issue is still unresolved, access your WordPress database via phpMyAdmin and manually check, in the wp_options table, the siteurl and home values and make sure they are correct.

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