Title: Problems moving a site.
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problems moving a site.

 *  [niallll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niallll/)
 * (@niallll)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-moving-a-site/)
 * Well apologies in advance, because this topic is pretty much “I messed up and
   didn’t read the codex properly, can someone fix it”
    but anyhow, the situation
   is this: I’m trying to move a site to a new server, I copied the whole site to
   my hard drive (but not the database, i didn’t know about phpmyadmin and misinterpreted
   database as a term for my whole website) then uploaded the site to a new server,
   setting up a new database and changing the config, then ran install and changed
   the addresses, when this resulted in an empty wordpress, I changed them back 
   again to the old site.
 * The problem that I have now is when i try and log into the old site, I get redirected
   to the new site. and i can’t really log into either of them.
    Can i recover from
   this? or has installing the new site lost me my old database? everything seems
   to be working okay on the old one, but I’m afraid to go any further in case something
   gets deleted.

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 *  [obscure](https://wordpress.org/support/users/obscure/)
 * (@obscure)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-moving-a-site/#post-684700)
 * You have a new site with no database (or rather and empty one)
    and the old site’s
   WP is pointing to the new site so nothing is pointing to the old database (which
   is on the server you don’t want).
 * Backup the old database and upload it to the new database server in place of 
   the empty one and your sorted.

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 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [deleted](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/deleted/)
 * [moving](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/moving/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
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 * Last reply from: [obscure](https://wordpress.org/support/users/obscure/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-moving-a-site/#post-684700)
 * Status: not resolved

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