Title: Moving WordPress Issue
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Moving WordPress Issue

 *  [abirney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abirney/)
 * (@abirney)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-issue-3/)
 * Hello!
 * We are experience an issue after moving WordPress from leantrak.com/wordpress9
   to leantrak.com – the root directory.
 * In doing so, we followed the steps according to the Moving WordPress tutorial
   but the homepage would not show up. However, if we go to leantrak.com/wp-admin
   the admin pane would show up. Furthermore, when we are editing a page and click
   to preview it, nothing shows up.
 * Any help is much appreciated 🙂
 * [http://www.leantrak.com](http://www.leantrak.com) <– we put their old site back
   up as a place holder for the time being.

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 *  [bicyclehobo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bicyclehobo/)
 * (@bicyclehobo)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-issue-3/#post-5320095)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL)
 * Did you change the path in the database from leantrak.com/wordpress9 to leantrak.
   com ?
 * If you have PHP myAdmin you can look at the database search for and change these
   paths. Many shared hosts have this tool.
 *  Thread Starter [abirney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abirney/)
 * (@abirney)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-issue-3/#post-5320120)
 * Thank you for the help!
 * Yes we have changed that path – still nothing working.
 * Unfortunately 1and1 hosting does not have a PHP myAdmin function in their CPanel.
 * I have tried everything in that link you posted and still got this same 403 Forbidden
   Error
 * “Forbidden
 * You don’t have permission to access / on this server.
 * Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument
   to handle the request.”
 * Any help is greatly appreciated!
 *  Thread Starter [abirney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abirney/)
 * (@abirney)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-issue-3/#post-5320129)
 * Update:
 * After adding an index.php file to our root folder, we are able to display the
   homepage, but with no images and no working links/menu items.
 * What could be causing this? Could we have lost some files on the transfer?
 *  [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
 * (@adiant)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-issue-3/#post-5320136)
 * This may be too late to help you, but the best set of instructions to do what
   you wanted to do (when you originally started) is: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory#Using_a_pre-existing_subdirectory_install](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory#Using_a_pre-existing_subdirectory_install)
   
   The section “Using a pre-existing subdirectory install”.
 * I use this approach for all my WordPress sites.
 *  [bicyclehobo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bicyclehobo/)
 * (@bicyclehobo)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-issue-3/#post-5320182)
 * Does the path to the images and categories that are not working appear to be 
   correct?

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## Tags

 * [moving-wordpress](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/moving-wordpress/)
 * [preview page](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/preview-page/)
 * [root directory](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/root-directory/)
 * [sub-domain](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sub-domain/)

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 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [bicyclehobo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bicyclehobo/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-issue-3/#post-5320182)
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