noone1

Hmmm, I figured that since my domain and urls were the same, it wouldn’t be an issue.

Anyway, I’ve since solved my problem. I did a manual install and manual creation of the database rather than use the application installed in Plesk.

I then deleted the content tables like posts, terms, users, comments etc. I used mysqldump to just dump those tables from the previous blog and then imported them to the fresh install.

This seemed to work. I had to reconfigure settings and the theme, but I just went through each setting and compared it to the old site, so it wasn’t a big deal.

Actually, I take it back. Can’t login still even with a 100% copy of everything.

There must be some server misconfiguration or something. I’m going to contact hosting support.

Perhaps the plesk control panel install is doing something out of the ordinary.

They are on different servers.

So, here’s what I did:

1. mysqldump entire database from site.
2. Made archives of all the files for the move.
3. Fresh install of WP on new server.
4. mysqldump of fresh database for back-up.
5. Imported old database to replace the fresh one.
6. Unarchived wp-content from old server.

Here’s what happened next.

1. The site looks fine, all the content is there as far as I can tell.
2. Can’t login. Tried changing pass directly in the database with MD5 and plain text. Nothing seems to log in.
3. Re-imported fresh database.
4. Site works fine, can log in. Seems to be the same as when I did the fresh install.

For whatever reason, I just can’t login when using the old database. All the content is there, theme is there, plugins are working. Just can’t login. I have no idea why.

Right now I’m going to try and do a 100% copy of the old site. I’m going to pretty much copy the entire blog directory and point it at the old imported database and see if it works.