Upgrade requires new install, 404 results

  • While I like 1&1 as a host in general, I am not happy that in order to change to a version of mySQL compatible with WordPress 2.9, I have to create a brand new database and start all over from scratch. OK, I can handle that.

    However–I created a new folder (with a different name) at the same level as the old one, installed WordPress into that, and then tried to navigate there to finish the installation. All I get is 404s. I know the folder exists; I can see it with two different ftp programs. But I can’t type the URL and get there directly (tried every variation on it that I could think of).

    I tried creating a different new folder and then installing WordPress into a subfolder of that and it worked, but I don’t want to use that as the permanent solution. I want eventually to rename the new folder so that the URL to the blog remains the same. I don’t want to have to ask my readers to learn to type something completely different.

    What am I doing wrong here?

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  • Hi,

    You must have set in your web hosting control panel to point to your old folder.
    Or the .htaccess file on your root directory is pointing to your old folder.

    Hope it helps!

    Thread Starter infmom

    (@infmom)

    No, unfortunately neither of those is correct. I have no idea why this is happening.

    Hi,

    Did you use back the old WordPress database? I mean import the whole old database data into the new one that you create? If that is so, you need to look into you options table for the option name siteurl and home.

    This two option stores the url to your blog.

    Hope it helps!

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