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Asked: 2026-06-04T18:16:40+00:00

I am trying to move a WordPress site to a new server. The domain

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I am trying to move a WordPress site to a new server. The domain name is also changing from “olddomain.com” to “newdomain.com.”

To this end, I moved all the files over to the new server and set up a virtual host in Apache. I then used a script (http://interconnectit.com/124/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/) to replace instances of “olddomain.com” with “newdomain.com.”

The home page of my site is working when I visit it in a browser. However, none of my other pages such as “newdomain.com/about/” are working – they return 404s.

I checked my Apache error log and got the following log.

[client 69.184.72.91] File does not exist: /home/david/wordpressSiteFiles/about, referer: http://newdomain.com/

Why is Apache looking for a file called “about” on my server? Here is the .htaccess file I have now.

# BEGIN WordPress
<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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  1. Editorial Team

    Do you have allowoverride set on the server?
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

    allowoverride must be set in your httpd.config or your .htaccess will
    be completely ignored.

    Your server may not have the AllowOverride directive enabled. If the
    AllowOverride directive is set to None in your Apache httpd.config
    file, then .htaccess files are completely ignored. In this case, the
    server will not even attempt to read .htaccess files in the
    filesystem.

    Source
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-cant-find-my-new-pages

    I had this same problem a few days ago and this fixed it!

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