Subfolder redirecting to root folder

  • hshaff

    (@hshaff)


    15 years, 6 months ago

    Hi there – I just moved a client site from a test subfolder to the root folder. The move went smoothly (for the most part), and I moved the contents of their old site to an archival folder. For the record, their old site was a static html site built in dreamweaver, not a WP site.

    Before moving the new site to the root folder, I started by moving the old site to a subfolder (ex: site.net/oldsite) – everything worked fine.

    Now that the new site is up and running, the old site is redirecting to the new WP site with a “page not found” message.

    I am thinking this has something to do with my permalinks? I’m not sure where to go from here!

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    Review Moving_WordPress.

    Thread Starter hshaff

    (@hshaff)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    Yes…I read this line:

    If you are using Permalinks, go to the Administration > Settings > Permalinks panel and update your Permalink structure to your .htaccess file, which should be in the same directory as the main index.php file.

    I don’t know exactly what this means though. It is telling me to update, but what am I updating it to?

    Do I need to add a permanent rewrite code? This step is unclear to me and more specific guidance would be appreciated!

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    Try resetting the permalinks to the default structure and then setting the custom structure back up again.

    Next time you do this, you might find Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory a much easier approach. You only have to move 2 files (if I remember correctly).

    Thread Starter hshaff

    (@hshaff)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    I reset permalinks but the old site is still redirecting to the new. This is what my .htaccess file looks like:

    AddType text/html .shtml
    AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .shtml
    Options -Indexes

    # BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

    These commands don’t mean much to me. I tried deleting the first rewrite rule (^index\.php$) and saw no changes.

    pisosse

    (@pisosse)

    15 years, 2 months ago

    any news on this.. got the same problem..

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