Upgrade in New Location – Site Points Back to Old One

  • I am working with a WP based site that was built w/version 1.5. In the process of backing up the database (after creating a valid backup), some reference to the database was broken. I had difficulty getting timely help from the current hosting company and control panel tools are very restricted.

    As a solution, I decided to place all the site files on a new host’s server, where I’m rebuilding the site differently (WP will no longer be the entire site). I need the old site to function while creating the new one, so I put the existing site in it’s own directory and created a new database into which I imported data from the backup I created. That worked smoothly. In the files that I uploaded, I already had all the WP upgrade steps completed (deleting old files, preserving appropriate files, etc).

    I ran the WP upgrade utility. It upgraded the database and I clicked on “Continue” to complete the site upgrade. The next screen that appeared was the home page on the old server, which is a temporary static page. I’m missing something here. Something is referencing the domain name, which still points to the old server. Anyone know what that is?

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    Did you change the domain name references in the database before restoring it? A simple search and replace in a text editor would do.

    WordPress knows it’s own domain name and URL and if that changes, it will force it back to the correct one.

    Thread Starter on_edge

    (@on_edge)

    No I didn’t. I wondered if it was something in the database. Now that it’s restored and upgraded for the new version, how would you suggest I do that? Is there a particular table in the DB that I should try to edit or should I create a new backup from the upgraded DB, do a search and replace locally, and then restore it to the server?

    Change the “home” and “site_url” values in the DB: https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/

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