Restore to subfolder

[frances3Participant]

Hi Support,
I recently had a WordPress site developed on the live hosting account within a subfolder (‘newsite’ – so the domain as an example was, http://www.mydomain.com.au/newsite). Upon completion of the development and site was ready to go live, a test of the migration was completed using another subfolder (testsite).
The migration appeared to have worked perfectly, so we then did a migration to the main folder (public_html).
Upon completion of the migration a search and replace was run to replace any mention of the URL http://www.mydomain.com.au/newsite to http://www.mydomain.com.au
After this was run, there will still issues URL within the site showing the /newsite/ subfolder – the website settings still had http://www.mydomain.com.au/newsite/ in the WordPress Address and Site Address.
On both migrations a fresh WordPress install method was used.
Should a different migration method be used when transferring within the same hosting account?
Has this issue occurred in the past?

Regards,
Frances

[Dee NutbourneModerator]

Hi Frances,

Please could you send us a copy of the migration restoration log?
This can be found in the ‘wp-content/updraft’ directory of the site.

The contents will be too long to post here directly, but you can use an online service such as Dropbox or Pastebin, and post the link here.

I would also recommend running a search and replace for the URLs without the leading ‘https://’
i.e. ‘www.mydomain.com.au/newsite’ and ‘www.mydomain.com.au’.

Best Wishes,
David N

[frances3Participant]

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[Dee NutbourneModerator]

Hi Frances,

Thank you. There were no errors in the log, so it appears that the issue may have been URLs in the database without the ‘https://’

Did your new search and replace resolve the issue?

Best Wishes,
David N

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