I developed a website on my localhost and migrated it to my web server. The site displays mostly everything on the home page (I lost some font settings as far as I can tell) and all the content seems to be intact as well as the menu items. But all links, images and nav items redirect to my localhost site. Even when I try to log into my wp-admin it accepts the credentials but redirects me to the admin for my localhost site. Is this my permalinks all messed up or something else? I have tried:

• searching for an .htaccess file but there is none
• defining a home & siteURL in the wp-config file (this just breaks the layout of the site although it still is active)
• edited wp-options table to be new URL for 'siteURL' but couldn't see a row for 'home'

RESOLVED

I found the 'home' field. And that proved to be the clincher. So if anyone comes across this same issue, I resolved it by editing both the 'home' and 'siteURL' fields in the wp-options table of the database on the server (not the localhost one) to replace the 'localhost/sitename' with ''. Both 'home' and 'siteurl' should be the same. That did the trick and all my links now work.

I developed a website on my localhost and migrated it to my web server. The site displays mostly everything on the home page (I lost some font settings as far as I can tell) and all the content seems to be intact as well as the menu items. But all links, images and nav items redirect to my localhost site. Even when I try to log into my wp-admin it accepts the credentials but redirects me to the admin for my localhost site. Is this my permalinks all messed up or something else? I have tried:

• searching for an .htaccess file but there is none
• defining a home & siteURL in the wp-config file (this just breaks the layout of the site although it still is active)
• edited wp-options table to be new URL for 'siteURL' but couldn't see a row for 'home'

RESOLVED

I found the 'home' field. And that proved to be the clincher. So if anyone comes across this same issue, I resolved it by editing both the 'home' and 'siteURL' fields in the wp-options table of the database on the server (not the localhost one) to replace the 'localhost/sitename' with 'http://www.sitename'. Both 'home' and 'siteurl' should be the same. That did the trick and all my links now work.

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• 1 You should add your solution as an answer. – Pieter Goosen Commented Jun 9, 2014 at 4:11
• possible duplicate of Duplicate domain database to local - How? – Pieter Goosen Commented Jun 9, 2014 at 5:33

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Just re-write your answer in the answer field so that people see this thread as answered. Did many research and finally found a thing that works.

RESOLVED

I found the 'home' field. And that proved to be the clincher. So if anyone comes across this same issue, I resolved it by editing both the 'home' and 'siteURL' fields in the wp-options table of the database on the server (not the localhost one) to replace the 'localhost/sitename' with 'http://www.sitename'. Both 'home' and 'siteurl' should be the same. That did the trick and all my links now work.