Wordpress: migrated site redirect to old home page. Happens only with the home page

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I just migrated a Wordpress site from one domain (domain-old.com) to another (domain-new.com). The problem is that the homepage: domain-new.com is redirected to: domain-old.com

It only happens with the home page. The other pages like: domain-new.com/some-page, domain-new.com/other-page, etc. work fine.

What I did so far after migration of files and database:

  • In wp-config.php I changed define('DB_NAME',...) , define('DB_USER', '...'), define('DB_PASSWORD', '...') and define('DB_HOST', '...') to connect to the database
  • In the database: click on the wp_options table and modify the values of the site_url and home column with your new URL.
  • updated permalinks: Settings -> Permalinks
  • In wp-config.php I added: define('WP_HOME','http://domain-new.com'); and define('WP_SITEURL','http://domain-new.com');
  • In my child theme in functions.php I added: update_option ( 'siteurl', 'http://domain-new.com' ); and update_option ( 'home', 'http://domain-new.com' );
  • I installed the plugin Search & Replace and run a Search and Replace for all tables in the database to search domain-old.com and replace them with domain-new.com

I don't know what else can I do. I think the problem is in the htaccess, but in there I just have this:

# 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>

# END WordPress

I have no cache plugin enabled. What am I missing here?

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wordpressmigration
I was in this exact situation and this question and the solution helped me out. Thanks! – andcl

2 Answers

1
votes

Try clearing your cache, or flushing your dns.

If it is working fine in a different browser/incognito mode etc, then it will simply be a cache issue, in which case just wait it out for it to clear.

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You should add some updates to database

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = REPLACE(option_value, 'http://olddomain.ru', 'http://newdomain.ru') WHERE option_name = 'home' OR option_name = 'siteurl';

UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = REPLACE(guid, 'http://olddomain.ru','http://newdomain.ru');

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, 'http://olddomain.ru', 'http://newdomain.ru');

You don't need do anything to move your wordpress instead of this changes.