WP redirects all pages from new domain to old domain

Question

I've moved my Wordpress installation from my development domain to the live domain, but it keeps redirecting every page back to the old (dev) domain.

So far I've:

1. Added

   define('WP_HOME', 'http://example.com']);

   define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://example.com');

   to 'wp-config.php'

2. Edited the 'siteurl' and 'home' entries in 'wp-options' in the database.

3. Re-downloaded the database and replaced every mention of the old URL with the new URL, then deleted the (live) database and imported the new one.

4. Checked '.htaccess' for any redirects/rewrites.

5. Cleared browser cache and server cache (multiple times - after each previous step).

It still redirects every page to the dev-url. For example, if I type in

'new-url.com/post-123'

it redirects me to

'dev-url.com/post-123'

The only thing that works is visiting 'new-url.com/wp-login.php', that way I have access to the backend. The site-/homeurls in the backend are set to 'new-url.com'.

What have I missed? Thanks in advance!

Edit: I had Q-Translate X set up to have a different domain for each language, that's what kept redirecting me to the old site. I don't know if Q-Translate saves settings in the DB, if not that would be why nothing else helped. Thanks for all the help guys!

Answer 1

It looks like some of your old site links are there in the database. Thats why it is redirecting to the users to the old site.

My suggestion would be use this

https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/

Its a kind of php script. Be sure to keep the database backup before using it. This script will make search and replace the strings from the database. After that just update your permalinks.

Hope this will help you.

Answer 2

How did you search the database entries of the old domain? If you did it manually i recommend to use wp-cli if you are allowed to install it on the server. Then you can use the command wp search-replace --all-tables "old.domain" "new.domain" (documentation) to replace your domain everywhere in the database.

Edit No.1:

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Another possibility: did you changed the database settings to the new database in wp-config.php?

Edit No.2:

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Did you cleared (resaved) your permalinks (Settings->Permalinks)?

Answer 3

This is maybe weird to say but did you change the home url in your backend? Because Wordpress uses that URL. Settings-->general--> Wordpress-adres(URL) and Website-adres(url)

Also when you echo the website url on a page of your choice , what do you see?

Edit

The next Wordpress page has everything you need to know about changing your URL Wordpress changing home URL

OPTION 1

Make sure you don't have wp-config.php with defined url's and edit the URL's in the backend like said above here.

OPTION 2

Define them hard coded in the wp-config.php like this :

define('WP_HOME','http://example.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','http://example.com');

Option 3

Edit your functions.php right after the <?php use this :

update_option( 'siteurl', 'http://example.com' );
update_option( 'home', 'http://example.com' );

Option 4

1. Edit your wp-config.php fille and put in :

   define('RELOCATE',true);

After the "define" statements (just before the comment line that says "That's all, stop editing!"), insert a new line, and type: define('RELOCATE',true);

2. Open a web browser and manually point it to wp-login.php on the new server. For example, if your new site is at http://www.yourdomainname.com, then type http://www.yourdomainname.com/wp-login.php into your browser's address bar.

3. Login as per normal.

4. Look in your web browser's address bar to verify that you have, indeed, logged in to the correct server. If this is the case, then in the Admin back-end, navigate to Settings > General and verify that both the address settings are correct. Remember to Save Changes.

5. Once this has been fixed, edit wp-config.php and either completely remove the line that you added (delete the whole line), comment it out (with //) or change the true value to false if you think it's likely you will be relocating again.

Note: When the RELOCATE flag is set to true, the Site URL will be automatically updated to whatever path you are using to access the login screen. This will get the admin section up and running on the new URL, but it will not correct any other part of the setup. Those you will still need to alter manually.

Source : Wordpress changing site url

Answer 4

With this plugin you can search and replace. They have an option for changing site URLs. I hope that it helps. https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/search-and-replace/