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Moved website to WordPress...something went wrong

by guidojongbloed
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So I moved one of my older websites to the WordPress plattform, just because it is so much easier to update and Google seems to like it. I've done that with a couple of website the last weeks and it worked just fine.

With the latest one, something went wrong. Its automatically redirecting the urls to the non-www version. I didn't think it was a problem and changed it in the general setting to the www-version. After which I couldn't log in anymore + it didn't actually change it.

By now, I can log in again luckily, but I'm not happy with the url's being redirected like this. Does anyone know what could cause the problem? Could it be the theme? Also, does anybody know if the impact on SEO is really that big? I built all my links to the www-version.

Thanks a lot for your imput!
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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    Not sure what's wrong but I know what I'd try doing:

    1 - Backup everything -the files and the database.
    2 - Open a copy of the database dump in your favorite text editor - Notepad ++ or PS Pad for example.
    3 - Replace all instances of http://yoursite.com with http://www.yoursite.com. Save the file.
    4 - Drop and recreate the database on the site (you did back it up right?)
    5 - Populate the database with the file you just made

    See if that works - no promises, just what I would try first!

    Bill

    P.S. If it doesn't work you may want to elaborate on how you "moved" your older site to WordPress.
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  • Profile picture of the author SmartWeb
    Originally Posted by guidojongbloed View Post

    So I moved one of my older websites to the WordPress plattform, just because it is so much easier to update and Google seems to like it. I've done that with a couple of website the last weeks and it worked just fine.

    With the latest one, something went wrong. Its automatically redirecting the urls to the non-www version. I didn't think it was a problem and changed it in the general setting to the www-version. After which I couldn't log in anymore + it didn't actually change it.

    By now, I can log in again luckily, but I'm not happy with the url's being redirected like this. Does anyone know what could cause the problem? Could it be the theme? Also, does anybody know if the impact on SEO is really that big? I built all my links to the www-version.

    Thanks a lot for your imput!
    Can you send me your site link. it would be 2 min job to analyze the problem.

    The main reason i feel can be, you have both your old and new site in the same root folder.
    to check this, try
    www.yoursitename.com - you should get the old site.
    and check www.yoursitename.com/index.php - you would get the new wordpress site.

    if things are happening as i told above, then the shortest way is to simply rename the file index.html to oldsite_index.html.
    doing this will aviod your old site from being opening when you do, www.yoursitename.com

    let me know the results and feedback.
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    • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
      all you need to do now is reset the permalinks and everything should work fine.

      so go into Setting, Permalinks, and switch the setting you have off and on again and save

      you should be good to go
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