Title: Moving WordPress
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Moving WordPress

 *  [chris@chris-alexander.net](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrischris-alexandernet/)
 * (@chrischris-alexandernet)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-9/)
 * I am transferring a domain and site to another hosting company. I followed the
   directions in the codex, but I have three problems that are occurring.
 * The domain is still pointing to old server. The new one is just an IP address.
 * 1. When I try to login to the admin site it forwards me back to the site on the
   previous server. So I cannot login to make any changes to the new site unless
   I use phpMyAdmin to edit.
 * 2. The homepage is showing an Error 404 page. As if index doesn’t exist.
 * 3. When I did an update to go from 2.8 to 2.8.4 now I get a 500 Internal Server
   Error.
 * Any thoughts on why this is happening? Should I just go ahead and point the domain
   to the new server?
 * Thanks in advance for anyone’s help in this manner.
 * Here are the links to the domain
    [http://www.autoscope.net](http://www.autoscope.net)(
   old server location) [http://216.227.221.191/~autos320/](http://216.227.221.191/~autos320/)(
   new server location)

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-9/#post-1205657)
 * Did you change DNS to point to the new server? You have to change your name servers–
   at wherever you have your domain registered – to the name servers of the new 
   hosting.
 * Your 500 error might just be a bad .htaccess file; bad encoding, corrupted rewrite
   block.

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