通过使用备份将暂存站点移到现场（Wordpress）

Question

I have a wordpress installation on let's say www.mysite.com. I used a plugin to create a staging site which is located under www.mysite.com/staging. After doing my changes I made a full backup including the database, went back to mysite.com and imported the backup. End of story: error 500 everywhere and I cannot login to the backend anymore because I have an endless redirect:

"Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace."

Everytime I call mysite.com it redirects to mysite.com/mysite/staging. I could ask my hoster to recover the website but I would like to understand what went wrong and how to fix it.

Answer 1

Assuming that you have correctly migrated your entire WP files and imported the database into your mysite domain, login to phpMyAdmin and locate your site mysite.com database. Open the tables and find wp-options. Look for the following tables

1. siteurl
2. home

Update their values with your new URL which is mysite.com.

Now visit your site and you should see no redirect.