Transferring current site to another URL

Resolved Henry
(@voodoohoodoo)

10 years, 10 months ago

Hi all,
I am a little confused about something here..

I have a client who has a current working website and I was hired to make a new site all up to date with wordpress that they can edit etc..
So I copied the old site and now as it is finished I need to transfer the old site URL which they want to keep OVER to the new site which I have created.
Is there a simple way to do this? Or some simple instructions I could follow? That would be great.

Also would I still need to register this address with Google? Maybe I should just register the current site with Google, making it searchable etc, then have it redirect to the new address once I have changed the sites over?
Sorry I am obviously just a little confused over the best way to proceed. Any help here would be greatly apprecited. Thanks!
HP

Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 24 total)

1 2 →

esmi
(@esmi)

10 years, 10 months ago

Where did you create the new site in relation to the old one?

Thread Starter Henry
(@voodoohoodoo)

10 years, 10 months ago

new site is on wordpress
The old one is not wordpress..it is all html stuff in filezilla. I am not sure if they used a program to build it.
Old one is http://www.1stchoice-driving-school.co.uk/

new one is http://www.drivinglessonsbrightonhove.co.uk/

Thread Starter Henry
(@voodoohoodoo)

10 years, 10 months ago

I guess they want to keep this 1st Choice name

esmi
(@esmi)

10 years, 10 months ago

Then you will need to follow the instructions in Moving_WordPress.

Thread Starter Henry
(@voodoohoodoo)

10 years, 10 months ago

yeah? ok thanks very much, ill try that

Thread Starter Henry
(@voodoohoodoo)

10 years, 10 months ago

I think I am going to do a Search and Replace to transfer the site. what should happen to the old site when I am doing this? Do they not need to do anything their end?
thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Henry

Thread Starter Henry
(@voodoohoodoo)

10 years, 10 months ago

Sorry, I am confused as to what exactly I need to do.
Rather than moving the WordPress site over to another server..can I not just unhook, as it were, the old site from its address then use that on my current server?
Seems like an easier thing to do as I don’t think I need to swap servers…both URLs are registered with the same company I believe.
Please could you advise the best possible way forward?
Thanks if you can help!
h

Rev. Voodoo
(@rvoodoo)

10 years, 10 months ago

You should be able to unhook the old domain, point the new domain, change the settings in settings->general (Or directly in the Db) and then search and replace to finish up.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

(for the search and replace, I usually use a plugin)

Thread Starter Henry
(@voodoohoodoo)

10 years, 10 months ago

Would I need to do this only?
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

Thread Starter Henry
(@voodoohoodoo)

10 years, 10 months ago

I changed the WOrdpres URL in the General Settings page and i got the error The requested URL /wp-login.php was not found on this server.

I changed it back to what it was previous and I still get this error and my site is all messed up

Thread Starter Henry
(@voodoohoodoo)

10 years, 10 months ago

my god, everything has gone crazy! I tried to change the wp-config file:
define(‘WP_HOME’,’http://example.com’);
define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’http://example.com’);

Now even my dashboard is screwed up!!

Thread Starter Henry
(@voodoohoodoo)

10 years, 10 months ago

I can’t even get to the settings anymore! its all jumbled up.christ

Thread Starter Henry
(@voodoohoodoo)

10 years, 10 months ago

Ok, sorry i have managed to change it and it is back to normal. Phew, was panicking a bit there

Moderator Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)

Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

10 years, 10 months ago

Now that it’s normal I think you want to do yourself a favor and make a new full backup as it is right now.

http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database
http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup

Just in case.

Thread Starter Henry
(@voodoohoodoo)

10 years, 10 months ago

Am still confused and not sure if I should proceed. The directions on that link Changing The Site URL do not seem to be exactly clear.
Should I do ALL these 4 steps? Or just one? and at what point should I do a search and replace? Before or after I change the wp-config?
Also..in unhooking the old site: This is still unclear to me. The old site is not wordpress…it is on a different server I think. I only have access to the old site via it’s FTP structure
Thanks if you can help Rev. Voodoo (or anybody for that matter)
hp