Comments on: WordPress blog URL change

By: Fayaz Ahmed

Fayaz Ahmed — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:44:45 +0000

BTW, remember if you happen to have hard-coded links inside your theme file or post, then those links will have to be changed manually (for theme files) or using SQL query (for posts).

Of course, in that case, you can also use a rewrite rule in the .htaccess file to redirect them to your base url, (as a quick shortcut)

By: Fayaz Ahmed

Fayaz Ahmed — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:40:40 +0000

Hello Rana,

Follow these steps and you should be all set:

1. Move (cut+paste) all files from /beta/ folder to your "web root" ("web root" is most likely one directory above "beta" folder)

2. Change wp-configure.php to:
define('WP_HOME','http://mylifementors.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','http://mylifementors.com');

3. Change .htaccess to:
RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

That's it

Let me know how it turns out. I may not answer back immediately though, as I'm very busy at the moment.

By: rana mukhtar

rana mukhtar — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:47:24 +0000

i made a site whose url is http://mylifementors.com/beta/ but i want to change it in http://mylifementors.com
i also give the two lines in wp-configure.php which are define('WP_HOME','http://mylifementors.com/beta');
define('WP_SITEURL','http://mylifementors.com/beta');
what i do for this ?

By: Fayaz Ahmed

Fayaz Ahmed — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:36:14 +0000

This is not the correct place to answer this question, so I'll suggest you to Google for it

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By: nnte

nnte — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:11:12 +0000

I don't see why not!

By: Fayaz Ahmed

Fayaz Ahmed — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 03:38:21 +0000

I don't see why not!

Maintenance page should work perfectly. Why don't you give it a try and let me know the results?

By: Kerre

Kerre — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:32:39 +0000

Will this work if my WordPress self hosted site needs a redesign and I want to have a maintenance page up while I work on it?

By: Dave James Miller

Dave James Miller — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:12:01 +0000

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By: Max

Max — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:03:35 +0000

Hi Buddy, thanx a lot. I've been struggling with a sql queries to change url.
didn't know it was that simple:)

cheers!

By: fayazmiraz

fayazmiraz — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:07:30 +0000

Yes, that is expected. Any hard-coded link with wordpress.example.com/.../ will not convert to http://www.example.com/.../

You can do any one of the following (Option-3 is recommended):

Option-1: if there is only a few links, update the links by manually editing the posts, so that links points to http://www.example.com/../ instead of wordpress.example.com

Option-2: if manual link update is tadeous, then follow the link updating process in this POST (this uses SQL query, keep it as a last resort. Don't do it unless you have to): http://www.lancelhoff.com/wordpress-replace-url-or-text-in-all-posts/

Option-3: Changing SQL can be dangerous. Especially, if you don't know exactly what you are doing. To be on the safe side, you an try modifying step-2 of my (previously commented suggestion):

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Change the .htaccess of wordpress.example.com (i.e. the wordpress folder) for blocking wordpress.example.com and allowing only http://www.example.com:
# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http\:\/\/www.example\.com\/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress
-----------------------------------------------

Notice the $1 in this line:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http\:\/\/www.example\.com\/$1 [R=301,L]

In fact, this is the only change you'll have to do. Let me know how it goes.

cheers