migrated my site and now its broken

  • So I recently changed the name of my base directory of my WordPress installation and then changed the home and siteurl and did a better search replace in my database but now I cannot edit or create new pages… How do I fix the site so it will work again?

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  • I hope you took a backup before you made all of these changes! What are you trying to accomplish?

    Thread Starter mace19

    (@mace19)

    yes I did and a new URL for the site, why can’t I link to pages or create new ones anymore?

    OK, so you have a backup, great! How did you create that backup? Please describe how you performed this migration.

    Thread Starter mace19

    (@mace19)

    I renamed the installation folder via ftp and then edited the two database values manually for ‘home’ and ‘siteurl’ then I changed the permalinks from custom value that the installation starts with to posts (the second to last option on the settings page.

    NEW:
    I did a fresh installation of WordPress and it worked fine with my site but then when I edited the permalink settings it broke in the same way. Why can WordPress only have a custom permalink setting?

    Thread Starter mace19

    (@mace19)

    @bigmoxy I worked around the problem by doing a fresh install of WordPress with a new database and then rebuilding my site so now I do not have the problem anymore but I still would like to know why changing the permalinks on two different servers (one unix and one windows) caused new page creation to stop working. Any ideas?

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