Title: Database issue after migration
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Database issue after migration

 *  [dsb0328](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsb0328/)
 * (@dsb0328)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-issue-after-migration/)
 * I’m assuming I have an odd issue after I’ve migrated a wordpress site from my
   test server (a subdomain on my regular server) to a new server (totally new).
   I went through all the steps of exporting the database, creating a new database
   on new server, importing the old database into the new database, transferring
   all the files, and doing a search and replace. After that, the site works great,
   aside from one thing. I had a password protected login to the test server folder
   so that robots like Google couldn’t find the subdomain and I exported the DB 
   while that was still active. Then when you went to the new site, it asked for
   that login… on every page. I went back to the test server folder and turned off
   the password protection and the site is now fine and not asking for it. My question
   is, what happens if I remove that folder from my server in the future? Will that
   database freak out and try to find it, resulting in a broken site? Or will it
   just go about its business and not even look for it anymore? Or do I have to 
   download the database now that the password protection is turned off and re-import
   it into the new database, and run a search and replace again?
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 * By the way, I used this [https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/](https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/)
   for the search and replace.

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 *  [Radices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radices/)
 * (@radices)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-issue-after-migration/#post-5709904)
 * What do you mean folder in this case? How did you password protect it?
 *  Thread Starter [dsb0328](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsb0328/)
 * (@dsb0328)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-issue-after-migration/#post-5709907)
 * I made a new folder on my server, let’s say it’s called “dev”, and then made 
   that into a subdomain. (dev.myserver.com) I installed WordPress in it and built
   a new site. While I was building the site, I realized that I did not want public
   access to it, so I put a password protection on the folder (dev) through my cPanel.
   That way you had to log in when you went to the address. When I went to export
   the database, I didn’t turn the password protection off. Make sense?
 *  [Radices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radices/)
 * (@radices)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-issue-after-migration/#post-5709909)
 * Yes makes perfect sense. That protections has nothing to at all to do with WordPress’s
   database. It might have written to you .htaccess file but would not have touched
   the database. So I’m confident that if you remove the folder nothing will happen
   with the WordPress install.
 *  Thread Starter [dsb0328](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsb0328/)
 * (@dsb0328)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-issue-after-migration/#post-5709919)
 * Okay, thanks for your response. That will make me sleep a little better when 
   I decide to delete that folder. Just thought it was weird that the login window
   to the old folder still showed up after the migration.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-issue-after-migration/#post-5709919)
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