Question

I’m to get migrate a website I populated for a friend from my server to his. Unfortunatly, the migration process isn’t working the way it normally should.

Does anyone have an idea to what would cause this wordpress site to break and for all the navigation to direct to the original site?

Even my wp admin redirects to orginal page

Here’s the site I hosted it on for demo: http://www.designobvio.us/avproduktor/

Here’s the site I’m trying to migrate it too http://avprodukter.com/

I have no idea why avprodukters isnt working: steps I took.

Exported database from designobvio.us/avproduktor
Replaced all links with designobvio.us to avproduktor
imported database to http://www.avprodukter.com/
installed wp and now i’m here

I’m going to repeat this process again to see maybe I was just dumb

Answer 1

WordPress has some special steps you have to take when migrating it to a different domain. Namely, you have to change the Blog URL from the administrative interface prior to moving the site.

There is a reference in the database to the old domain and that is what it is using to build the URL’s. Without starting over, you can use a tool like phpMyAdmin, or even the MySQL console to change that setting in the database.

The two settings you would have to change in the database are in the wp_options table (assuming tables are prefixed with wp_). The two option_names are siteurl and home. Both of those should contain the old domain; you need to update them to reflect the new URL.

See Moving WordPress from the WordPress Codex for the full directions and steps to take in different scenarios.

You could start over and follow the steps from the link above, or you can just change those 2 values in the database and then you should be set.