Title: Changing a temporary url
Last modified: September 22, 2016

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# Changing a temporary url

 *  [petomi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petomi/)
 * (@petomi)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-a-temporary-url/)
 * I hope someone can help please. I was given a staging url by our provider, I 
   have finished the site build and now need to make the site live. I’ve tried changing
   the url’s by firstly changing the settings in the wp general settings and obviously
   ran into problems. I followed the codex guides (downloading files and databases,
   changing config.php, uploading files and database etc). There were 7 file transfer
   errors ((creating directories)) when I tried to upload the files back via filezilla
   and the was an issue with uploading the database into the new server.
 * However everything worked for a minute then logged me out and went back to 404.
 * So I’ve uploaded the original files back to the site, changed the urls back to
   the staging url within phpmyadmin and am hopefully back to square one without
   causing to many problems.
 * Can someone please walk me through how to do this properly?

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-a-temporary-url/#post-8212099)
 * Grab a copy of this:
 * `https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/`
 * put it on your server, then search for [http://oldurl](http://oldurl) and replace
   with [http://newurl](http://newurl)
 *  Thread Starter [petomi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petomi/)
 * (@petomi)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-a-temporary-url/#post-8212154)
 * Hi Steve,
    Thanks for that. I’m not sure where/how to put in on the server. Can
   you please advise? Thanks Pete
 *  Thread Starter [petomi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petomi/)
 * (@petomi)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-a-temporary-url/#post-8212187)
 * Ive logged into a ajaXplorer FTP file manager through my hosting provider. Im
   guessing I upload it to there? Cant find a reference to public facing directory
   though
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-a-temporary-url/#post-8212279)
 * put it in a directory you create under the home directory (public_html) of your
   site.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-a-temporary-url/#post-8212279)
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