migration issues

  • cpking1963

    (@cpking1963)


    1 week, 3 days ago

    I migrated my wp site from Bluehost to Hostinger. Generally, the migration went well. It took 24 hours for Hostinger’s tools to read and upload my site. However, I’m finding some strange things happening and not sure where to look to fix them. I have completely deleted the wp site on Bluehost.

    For example, Between Bluehost.com, Hostinger.com and WordPress.org, my login wants to use the email address from my staging site on Hostinger (email deleted) as my email address, rather than email also delted. I have changed it in the Users on my new site. I’ve tried doing it by logging into my site, and it won’t stick.

    There are other issues around plugins, but I’m slowing sorting through those. Pertaining to those (I think) is that my wp admin points to salmon-mule-385512.hostingersite.com rather than [ redundant link deleted ]. For example, when opening my admin, the address is https://salmon-mule-385512.hostingersite.com/wp-admin/ rather than . Is that normal?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    1 week, 3 days ago

    This looks like something that should be addressed by HOstinger support.

    Thread Starter cpking1963

    (@cpking1963)

    1 week, 3 days ago

    Various plugins still showed in Bluehost as installed which I have deactivated. There’s some connection with Bluehost I can’t seem to solve. And wordpress.org’s login says Bluehost.

    Moderator threadi

    (@threadi)

    1 week, 3 days ago

    You can access your backend at https://inspiredchaossc.com/wp-login.php. I have no idea where you got the other URLs. You should be able to log in using the credentials you already have at this address.

    alexfv

    (@alexfv)

    5 days, 14 hours ago

    Your main symptom points at the database still holding the temporary domain. Hostinger imports migrated sites under a hostingersite.com subdomain, and if the real domain was connected afterwards without a full search-replace, siteurl and home in wp_options keep the temp value. WordPress builds every admin URL from siteurl, which is why wp-admin keeps opening at salmon-mule-385512.hostingersite.com no matter what address you type.

    I checked your homepage source just now and it still references salmon-mule-385512.hostingersite.com in several asset URLs, so the leftovers go beyond those two options rows.

    The fix is a database-wide search-replace. In hPanel you can open a terminal with WP-CLI and run: wp search-replace 'salmon-mule-385512.hostingersite.com' 'inspiredchaossc.com' --all-tables. After that, Settings > General should show inspiredchaossc.com in both address fields; clear the LiteSpeed cache and log in again at the real domain.

    The wordpress.org login showing Bluehost is a separate thing. Your wordpress.org account is independent of your site’s database, so the migration can’t change what it displays; update the email on wordpress.org itself if you want that changed.

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