Ask HN: Help with transfering a Wordpress site to a different URL

2 pointsskat_et_dieu13y ago2 comments

I am doing an intership and the owner asked me to transfer one of his sites (www.vortexsprayonliner.com) to a Wordpress site. I built this Wordpress site http://granitexfloorcoating.com/ for him. It is done. I changed the DNS server and while changing the settings in Wordpress to the old URL I set it to the vortexsprayonliner.com URL. This broke the Wordpress site I built and now it always forwards to the old site for any updates on settings or pages. Even just trying to log in!!!

I don't know what I can do. Maybe going into the datase and changing the URL on it but I don't know which table holds that information.

Can anyone help me?

2 comments

cd3413y ago

Check wp-config.php, look for $table_prefix =

that is normally wp_

then, in {$table_prefix}options, normally wp_options, two values contain the url:

select * from wp_options where option_name in ('siteurl','home');

skat_et_dieuOP13y ago

Ok, thanks for your help! I'm really lost here and the site is supposed to be up by the end of this week :/

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