{"id":2308927,"date":"2011-09-21T17:21:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T17:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/migrating-linux-wp-to-windows-2k8r2-wp\/"},"modified":"2016-08-20T02:33:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T02:33:10","slug":"migrating-linux-wp-to-windows-2k8r2-wp","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/migrating-linux-wp-to-windows-2k8r2-wp\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrating Linux WP to Windows 2K8R2 WP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have a new customer trying to migrate from their existing Linux WP to our Plesk based Windows platform.<\/p>\n<p>Have followed the migration to a new server process to the letter, but we still are having problems.<\/p>\n<p>I finally got their site to a point where if I type in http:\/\/www.thesite.com\/index.php  it runs.<br \/>\nBut&#8230; if I leave off the index.php on the end it goes to a 404 page.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if I try and go to http:\/\/www.thesite.com\/wp-admin then somehow their site is redirecting me to http:\/\/thesite.com\/wp-admin which is on their current Linux host.<\/p>\n<p>My hunch is PermaLinks are to blame here&#8230; more directly the mod_rewrite tool or .htaccess files.<\/p>\n<p>Any ideas for how to get this customer successfully converted onto our service ???<\/p>\n<p>After 2 days of dinking with this I&#8217;m about ready to tell them they have to rebuild from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-2308927","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/2308927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/2308927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}