Site backup restore issue

Hi there,

A few months back I made a backup of my WordPress site as I was planning on moving from BlueHost basic to share a friend’s dedicated server.

So once I was given access to the new server a few days back, I used Filezilla to transfer all the main folders (wp-admin, content, includes), as well as the individual files in the root of the backup across, and then imported the database with phpmyadmin. Finally I adjusted the wp-config to have the right values and at this point I assumed it would all be good and well. When I went to the site url I just received a constant redirect loop.

Upon digging a little deeper I think I may have spotted the issue and wanted to find out if the pros here can confirm; when looking in the database for my posts file I noticed that everything has “akd” instead of “wp” (which I assume it should be?) in the name, for example:

“akd_nxs_log
akd_options
akd_posts
akd_sfauthcats
akd_sfauths
akd_sfcache
akd_sfdefpermission”

First of all, is there any reason why this may have happened? And finally, should it be as simple as renaming them all to “wp” to fix this problem?

Sadly most of this is way over my head, thanks a lot in advance!

Please let me know if you need any more info 🙂