Question

I have been struggling with this issue for hours now.
I currently have a WordPress site running at domain.com/subdomain.
I want to transfer this to domain2.com.

What I’ve done:

• Exported the tables from PHPMyAdmin.
• “Replace all” from domain.com/subdomain to domain2.com in the .SQL-file. (I even used a replace tool to keep the string lengths or what not -> WP Serialized PHP Replacer)
• Downloaded the entire site from domain.com/subdomain.
• Uploaded the entire site to domain2.com.
• Changed the database info in wp-config.php to the correct info for the new DB at domain2.com.
• Imported the .SQL-file to the new database.

What happens now? Well, when I navigate to domain2.com I get the error “Cannot display the webpage”. I have tried making a brand new install of WordPress on domain2.com, and that works like a charm.

The only thing is that I got hundreds of pages and plugins with settings that I would really like to keep, took days for me just to get them in order and the clients deadline is due tomorrow.

The WordPress Tools > Export tool was like a wolf in sheep clothing, tricking me into I fixed it. But it didn’t copy user information or plugin settings.

Answer 1

Make sure that you .htaccess file looks like this:

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

and NOT like this

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /subdomain/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /subdomain/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress