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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Link problems after test site move(s)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-problems-after-test-site-moves/)
 *  Thread Starter [bbbent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbbent/)
 * (@bbbent)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-problems-after-test-site-moves/#post-9070213)
 * OMG this turned out to be so unbelievably simple. I should have seen it a long
   time ago.
 * When moving the blog I had to do a lot of manual resetting of the siteURL and
   Home URL as described in [Moving WordPress](https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress).
 * I did this mostly using manual updates to wp-config.php as described in the article.
 * Then, after I got the links working I kind of forgot about that.
 * So it turns out that the cause of the problem was still that setup.
 * Here’s what wasn’t working that I just hadn’t noticed:
    ⌊Failing siteURL after
   move⌉
 * And here’s the fix. So SIMPLE> DURRRRRRR.
    ⌊Fix for moved site⌉
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Link problems after test site move(s)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-problems-after-test-site-moves/)
 *  Thread Starter [bbbent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbbent/)
 * (@bbbent)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-problems-after-test-site-moves/#post-9065528)
 * I did try that, and that gives me more unexpected results. I have it set up with
   no .htaccess right now.
 * So if you go to [http://34.239.226.239/](http://34.239.226.239/) and follow any
   of my test links to the blog page at /blog/index.php you go correctly to the 
   blog. But that is because I have the permalinks set to plain. So once you get
   to the blog you then have the original problem of the blog links themselves pointing
   to pages like this:
    [http://34.239.226.239/?p=346](http://34.239.226.239/?p=346)
 * So that results in no result because that page is at [http://34.239.226.239/blog/?p=346](http://34.239.226.239/blog/?p=346)
   so it loops you back to the root instead.
 * I’m about ready to pay someone to help me sort this out. Not sure where to go
   for that though.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Link problems after test site move(s)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-problems-after-test-site-moves/)
 *  Thread Starter [bbbent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbbent/)
 * (@bbbent)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-problems-after-test-site-moves/#post-9051006)
 * I understand that. But it’s the symptom of the problem, not a solution.
 * For example, I changed the permalinks now so that they use:
    [http://34.239.226.239/blog/%post_id%/](http://34.239.226.239/blog/%post_id%/)
 * So if you look at the root site, and link to the blog it still doesn’t load the
   index.php page as it should. It now loads this:
    [http://34.239.226.239/blog/239](http://34.239.226.239/blog/239)
 * So the permalink change is working. If you let it load that page (which is the
   first post it can find) you can move to other blog posts and they load.
 * But that still leaves me with the problem of the link from [http://34.239.226.239/](http://34.239.226.239/)
   going to the wrong result. It points to [http://34.239.226.239/blog/index.php](http://34.239.226.239/blog/index.php).
 * What it’s supposed to load is a preview page that shows blog excerpts for the
   most recent posts. But that’s not what it’s doing.

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