How to move my site to a different domain name but with same server

Why not just put WordPress in a sub-folder (call it blog) of domain1, then during developement access the blog at domain1.com/blog.

When you are ready to go ‘live’, to make WordPress available at https://domain1.com just change in Settings->General, the Blog address (URL) to https://domain1.com and put this index.php file in your web-root folder (it is the same folder that contains the blog folder)

<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./blog/wp-blog-header.php');
?>

Then update your permalinks in Settings->Permalinks.

Thanks for the suggestions. If you do this what happens to the images? Do I need to go back into each post and change the url?

Thank you,

Agent D

You shouldn’t have to.

The only problem with doing it that way though is that your database is still going to reference wrong links, they’ll just be redirected.

The way I’d do it is like this:

1. “Copy” all my files over from domain2 to domain1

2. Download/Export your database the domain2 WordPress was using. Once downloaded, first create a backup of it and then open it up with a word processor program like WordPad and do a find and replace all your domain2 links.

So for example, do a find for domain2 in your database and replace it with domain1.

3. Save the file.

4. Log back into your database and drop all the tables (make sure you have that backup on your computer of the original database).

5. Import in the newly edited database.

6. Test it out by going to your domain1 website.

Thanks so much for the instruction! This is great. I’ll try that now.

I am having a similar problem.

My website was built using WordPress on one domain, then transferred to another. Everything works and the admin is functioning properly, but when I try to log in it always forwards me back to the old domain and says “error establishing a connection to the database”

The weird part is that at this point (even though it technically denied you your login) if you manually type in the https://www.thedomainname.com/wp-admin you are taken to the admin panel and logged in. The same goes for any other user trying to access the site.

I’ve checked the wp-config file and the database is being referenced properly. What could be the problem here, what file is it and how do I fix it?

Thanks so much in advance.

Anyone familiar with this problem?

hello?

I am faced with the same challenge as the other members on this post. I would love to see a response to mnmelillo’s question. So I’m posting to update the thread. I haven’t taken any of the steps yet but plan to this weekend and would love to know all of the issues are already addressed in case I encounter one or the other. Appreciate anyone’s insights/answers.

MikeV