btw, i haven’t deleted my finallyanime.com/blog extension until i complete the move
check this:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
take a backup of your database first
….oh no, I’ve moved the files around and cant get to anything 🙁 – http://www.finallyanime.com/blog isn’t working :(((( I moved the files back to their original place…what do i do???
note: i didn’t delete ANYTHING, only moved, i even decided to try to do some importing to a new installation to the desired url (finallyanime.com) and that worked, so everything’s still there…it’s just not showing :(((
I feel like this should be a permanent sticky…
It looks like your root site is working…
no, I’m not worried about the root site, I’m worried about the /blog extension part of the url working, and it’s not. The finallyanime.com/BLOG is the part of the site that has all my info and the root site I just started 4 mins ago, and is not “working”
Thank you for the reply, but please read the whole post
ah, but thank you for the link and I’ll post again if all else fails -_-”
Suppose you accidentally moved the files before you changed the URIs: you have two options.
OPTION 1.Suppose the files were originally in /path/to/old/ and you moved them to /path/to/new before changing the URIs. The way to fix this would be to make /path/to/old/ a symlink (for Windows users, “symlink” is equivalent to “shortcut”) to /path/to/new/, i.e.
ln -s /path/to/new /path/to/old
and how in the heck do yu make a symlink?????
Actually, can someone tell me this:
HOW to move my files back to finallyanime.com/blog and have it work? disregard the root domain, i need to get to the /blog extension
You can do that using an FTP and SQL restoration..
you can manage the URL from database as well.. Go to wp_options table.. and see the siteurl field.
Oy.
Ryan already told you what to do to fix it before you re-Moved all your crap again, you just didn’t listen.
The problem you’ve just created in relation to your /blog directory, about the headers not being sent and all that, is because you have an empty line or space before the opening php tag or after the ending php tag of either your wp-config file or one of your other plugin or theme files, like the one that’s mentioned in the error you created (smartyoutube.php)…
So, you can disable the plugin you broke by renaming it’s folder and see if that gives you your /blog back. If it does, then move the WordPress installation by actually using the directions this time.
…..I just typed up an entire page, but my damn iPhone crashed for the first time……great. Anyways, Ill follow all I can and let you know what happens, thank you forbyour responses everyone. I appreciate it
Oh btw lol, sorry I don’t mean to annoy you but I have a database plugin that emIls me backups of the SQL every weekend. Luckily it did yesterday, could that help me out @ all?
This is what the email had:
Website Name: It's Finally Anime!
Website URL: http://finallyanime.com/blog
Backup File Name: 1248512200_-_finally1_wrdp1.sql
Backup File Date: July 25, 2009 @ 8:56 am
Backup File Size: 5.1 MiB
With Regards,
It's Finally Anime! Administrator
http://finallyanime.com/blog
I’ll go about renaming the plugin folders though. I’ll say how that goes later….
Okay, I moved everything to the root site @ finallyanime.com & can even login, but my pictures are not displaying because of paths. I’m look around and all I’m seeing are convoluted descriptions of how to change image paths. I’m a bit confused, could someone give me a simple solution to changed the paths on all my images?
This is for my posts, not homepage
just so everyone knows, i left the original photos in the wp-content folder of the first folder just to keep the pics up, but I still need to change the absolute urls 🙁
I have a database plugin that emIls me backups of the SQL every weekend.
Yeah, that would have been nice to know from the beginning…
could someone give me a simple solution to changed the paths on all my images?
The simplest solution would have been to just create a fresh wordpress install at the root, export the posts/comments from the old one using the built-in WordPress tool, and then import it to the new one and check the little “Import file and image attachments” checkbox and hit “go”…. but… since you’ve already moved everything to the root, you only have a few choices and all of them stink:
1) Follow one of the “convluted descriptions” to change the image paths in your database… which generally just requires an sql statement to physically change the new database (ALWAYS HAVE A BACKUP FIRST!)
2) Export an XML from the old blog using the built-in WP tool. Open the new database with phpmyadmin & empty (NOT drop) the tables that the XML file needs to replace, and then import the XML using the WP import tool.
3) Start over and play the fresh install / export / import game – but note that this won’t copy any of your custom database tables that your plugins or theme may have created.
If anyone else wants to add an easier way, feel free to step in and correct me…
