Title: Moving WordPress Issue
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Moving WordPress Issue

 *  [graphicenzo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/graphicenzo/)
 * (@graphicenzo)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-issue-1/)
 * So I built a WordPress site in a test directory within the root folder of this
   site. When i was ready to make it “live”, I changed both URLs in the general 
   setting in the admin panel. I then moved the files into the root directory. The
   homepage is showing up, but when a link is clicked, I get the following error:
 * Internal Server Error
 * The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to
   complete your request.
 * Please contact the server administrator, [webmaster@40dollarmule.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-issue-1/webmaster@40dollarmule.com?output_format=md)
   and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done
   that may have caused the error.
 * More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
 * Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying 
   to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
 * This process has worked for me before. Any suggestions??

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 *  [Devin Humbert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dhumbert/)
 * (@dhumbert)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-issue-1/#post-2065765)
 * When getting a 500 error, the only way to really figure it out is to look in 
   the Apache error logs. Do you know how to access those? If not, who is your hosting
   provider?
 *  Thread Starter [graphicenzo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/graphicenzo/)
 * (@graphicenzo)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-issue-1/#post-2065817)
 * I do not know how to do that. The hosting company is Kyvon.
 *  [Devin Humbert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dhumbert/)
 * (@dhumbert)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-issue-1/#post-2065891)
 * It looks like your host uses cPanel – do you know how to access cPanel? I think
   it’s typically [http://yourdomain.com/cpanel](http://yourdomain.com/cpanel) or
   [http://yourdomain.com:2082](http://yourdomain.com:2082).
 * Once logged in to cPanel, look for the Logs or Logging section, and the Error
   log. Before clicking it, try to do whatever it was that caused the 500 error 
   to show up first, to make sure the error is captured.
 * Then paste the error log here.
 *  Thread Starter [graphicenzo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/graphicenzo/)
 * (@graphicenzo)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-issue-1/#post-2065892)
 * I did exactly what you suggested, but there are no errors logged.
 *  [Devin Humbert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dhumbert/)
 * (@dhumbert)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-issue-1/#post-2065893)
 * Can you post the contents of your .htaccess file? It should be in the WordPress
   root directory.
 *  Thread Starter [graphicenzo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/graphicenzo/)
 * (@graphicenzo)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-issue-1/#post-2065894)
 * # -FrontPage-
 * IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*
 * <Limit GET POST>
    order deny,allow deny from all allow from all </Limit> <Limit
   PUT DELETE> order deny,allow deny from all </Limit> AuthName 40dollarmule.com
   AuthUserFile /home/dollarmu/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd AuthGroupFile /home/
   dollarmu/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine
   On RewriteBase /testbank/ RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-
   f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /testbank/index.php [L] </
   IfModule>
 *  [Devin Humbert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dhumbert/)
 * (@dhumbert)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-issue-1/#post-2065912)
 * Can you backup that file (so you don’t lose the changes), and then replace everything
   in it with what’s below (kind of the “default” WordPress .htaccess)?
 *     ```
       # BEGIN WordPress
   
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
   
       # END WordPress
       ```
   
 *  [katswink](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katswink/)
 * (@katswink)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-issue-1/#post-2066058)
 * Thank you. I had the same problem and you fixed it! 🙂 Devin Humbert!

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 * [move](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/move/)
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 * Last activity: [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-issue-1/#post-2066058)
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