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Relocating Wordpress to a new folder on a server
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Wordpress relocation.md

How to move Wordpress to a new location on a server

  1. Assuming we want to move from /demo/foo/ to /demo/bar
  2. Copy /demo/foo/ to /demo/bar
  3. Make ESPECIALLY sure that the .htaccess file in foo has been copied to bar, because cp might not copy it in some cases.
  4. Open the .htaccess file and change RewriteBase to /demo/bar.
  5. Change the last RewriteRule to RewriteRule . /demo/bar/index.php [L]
  6. Save & exit htaccess.
  7. You should now get a 404 page when you open the website.
  8. Go to your database and open wp_options table, you will find 2 rows containing the website url, change them accordingly.
  9. You should be done here, but in case you get broken links, find a way to find all occurrences of the old URL in yiur database and replace them with the new URL.
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