500 Internal server error after updating Site Address (URL) to new domain

  • Resolved estockw1

    (@estockw1)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    I have a site at https://69.195.124.175/~truegrou/. I also own the domain truegrounds.com, and yesterday I updated the nameservers to point to my new site. truegrounds.com loaded the homepage, but clicking on any links changed the URL to https://69.195.124.175/~truegrou/…. So I updated the Site Address in the WordPress settings to truegrounds.com. However, all of the pages other than the homepage throw a 500 error. Is this an issue with WordPress? My host (bluehost.com)? The domain? I have no idea what the problem is.

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  • Thread Starter estockw1

    (@estockw1)

    It was an issue with the .htaccess file. The rewrite module was incorrect after changing my domain.

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /~truegrou/
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /~truegrou/index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    I needed to get rid of /~truegrou in the RewriteBase and RewriteRule:

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

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