404 after modifying account

[chrisvdgeld]

Hi,

The website owners of the Wordpress I am working on decided to change their domain. I modified my account to change the main domain and now I get 404 on any page.

(redacted private domain and IP information)

 

[cPRex]

Hey there! I removed a section of your post as we can't share public IP addresses or domain names.

You won't be able to use the WHM >> Modify an Account tool alone to change the name of a WordPress installation. While that will be required as part of the work, WordPress stores *everything* inside a database, so you'd need to modify all the database entries as well.

A better option that is available in cPanel would be to clone the site using WordPress Toolkit, as outlined here:

WP Toolkit – Cloning a WordPress Website - Documentation from Plesk Knowledge Base

WP Toolkit – Cloning a WordPress Website: You may want to clone your WordPress website in one of the following situations: - Documentation - Plesk Knowledge Base

www.plesk.com

That would allow you to move a staging site to production with just a few clicks.

 

[chrisvdgeld]

Hey there! I removed a section of your post as we can't share public IP addresses or domain names.

You won't be able to use the WHM >> Modify an Account tool alone to change the name of a WordPress installation. While that will be required as part of the work, WordPress stores *everything* inside a database, so you'd need to modify all the database entries as well.

A better option that is available in cPanel would be to clone the site using WordPress Toolkit, as outlined here:

WP Toolkit – Cloning a WordPress Website - Documentation from Plesk Knowledge Base

WP Toolkit – Cloning a WordPress Website: You may want to clone your WordPress website in one of the following situations: - Documentation - Plesk Knowledge Base

www.plesk.com

That would allow you to move a staging site to production with just a few clicks.

I kind of figured that. The problem that I am finding however, is that there is also no display if I simply put a "Hello world" index.html in the public_html folder. It still says 404.
I do like to note that the OLD url is still in the cpanel domains, still in my DNS and also returns a 404.

edit: Cloning also didn't work. Still a 404.

 

[chrisvdgeld]

Update:

Seems that the problem was in the .htaccess - the "modify account" made the syntax of that file all funky. Copied an old copy of it and it suddenly worked great. Thank you anyway!

 

[ResellerWiz]

Did you update the "Site URL" in the WordPress configuration to the new domain name?