Moved site out of a multisite -> /wp-admin keeps redirecting

Did you edit your .htaccess back to normal WordPress?

Yes I did, forgot to mention that.

How long ago did you change the DNS to point to it’s own install and not your MultiSite?

I didn’t change a DNS yet. The website is running on a testserver so I didn’t had to change it.

Oh, well that would do it. The domain’s still pointing to the old server ?? Weird things will happen. Like when a baby monitor picks up our neighbor’s cordless phone.

Thanks for your help Ipstenu, but I still don’t get it ??

I moved the website from:
https://www.olddomain.com
to
https://testsite.completenewdomein.net

There isn’t a relationship between the new server and the old server? So how could a DNS wreck this? Or am I getting it wrong?

Thanks!

Ah you were unclear in what you did. FYI, it’s really helpful when you’re specific of ‘this was my old setup, this was my new.’

NORMALLY when people say they moved a domain out of multisite, what they mean is that they had sitename.domain.com (or domain.com/sitename) with sitename.com mapped to it. But NOW they want it to be it’s own site.

I’m still a little confused as to what you did and where you’re going with this, though, since what you described SOUNDS like you had olddomain.com MAPPED somewhere.

Sorry I will describe the situation again:

– I had a multisite with 3 websites running on https://www.site-a.com. One of the multisites was called https://www.iwanttomovethis.com and the domainname was mapped to https://www.site-a.com because the ‘website/files’ where running there. So I used the domain mapping plugin to do this and of course the DNS was pointed there.

– Then the client decided https://www.iwanttomovethis.com had to run on his own server. So I pulled this website out of the multisite and installed a new standalone WordPress on a testserver named https://itshouldbehere.anotherdomain.com.

In my first post on this topic I described how I moved the website.

Now everything is running fine except the /wp-admin redirect to the old domain https://www.iwanttomovethis.com.

You get it :)?

What is https://itshouldbehere.anotherdomain.com?

Is it a multisite or a stand alone single site?

It’s a stand alone single site.

And you replaced, in the DB, every instance of … iwanttomovethis.com with itshouldbehere.anotherdomain.com right?

Sorry, I’m stepping back to take on each step one at a time since I think we got tangled ??

Yes I replaced every instance and also checked for hardcoded url’s in the files.

Did you look for JUST iwanttomovethis? Multisite is weird about that…

I thought I did but I will double check it again. I’ll keep you updated, will check this on monday.

I just exported the database and searched for iwanttomovethis as a single word. One match but that had something to do with the stylesheet directory.. (theme has the same name).

So it looks like it isn’t in the DB.