Moved website location: Loading failed for the <script> - wordpress

Building a Wordpress site locally, I've moved the website's location from localhost/company to the root (so localhost). I've gone into the settings in phpMyAdmin and changed the siteurl and home to 'http://localhost'.
Initially the site loads almost correctly (missing some images, elements etc). I presume these missing things are down to me not going changing the links using MySQL or the Velvet Blues Plugin.
However, when I refresh the entire website structure fails. Only a few elements actually load. If I inspect, I see the same error over and over.
Loading failed for the with source "http://localhost/company/wp-content/themes/grandtour/js/jquery-3.3.1.min.js".
This error continues referencing just about any JS file within /wp-content/ or /wp-includes/.
I'm unsure why it's still looking into /company/ despite me changing the phpMyAdmin settings.
Edit: A large amount of the JS files are being linked to like below:
<script type="text/javascript"
src="<?php bloginfo("template_url"); ?>/js/jquery-3.3.1.min.js"></script>
So it would appear that 'template_url' is still seen as localhost/company. Should this have changed when I changed 'siteurl' and 'home'?
Edit 2: The problem is now also occurring when I upload the site to a live domain, so it's not a localhost issue.

There are 2 thing you need to do when changing your website domain name or URL.
The first thing you would want to double check is that your SQL entries reflect the correct new URL. The SQL statement below will adjust the URL's inside wp_options, wp_posts and wp_postmeta.
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, 'http://oldsite-url.com', 'http://newsite-url.com') WHERE option_name = 'home' OR option_name = 'siteurl';
UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = REPLACE (guid, 'http://oldsite-url.com', 'http://newsite-url.com');
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE (post_content, 'http://oldsite-url.com', 'http://newsite-url.com');
UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_value = REPLACE (meta_value, 'http://oldsite-url.com','http://newsite-url.com');
The next thing you want to adjust is your .htaccess file. The quickest way to do this is to go to Settings -> Permalinks and click save.
This will regenerate your .htaccess file, assuming that your new server has got the mod_rewrite rules enabled (most do). As mentioned in your comments, deleting the .htaccess is also a potential fix (but keep a backup just in case).

it is always better to keep your site with-in the directory instead moving to localhost which is primary location of your websites.
Primary location means where you can setup multiple websites in a directory.
If you are curious about URL structure you should look for Virtual Host.
Here is the setup guide on cloudways.com
So, Keep your site in htdocs folder if you are using XAMPP. and setup VHOST for pretty URL's.
after setup the V-HOST URL would be like http://yoursite.html
Everything will work perfectly without any error.

In the end, to solve the issue, I used this search and replace tool for WP databases. https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/
I'd updated the links using MySQL and also attempted using the Velvet Blues plugin, which is what I usually use without issue. However, this tool was able to find an additional 8 entries, which when updates, solved the issue.

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How to map or copy a wordpress site to a subfolder in an existing site's route?

I have a Wordpress blog (blog.xxx.com). I have a nuxt personal website yyy.com which is hosted on aws.
Now I wish to map or migrate the Wordpress blog (blog.xxx.com) to my personal site (yyy.com/blog).
How can we achieve this? yyy.com should show my personal site and yyy.com/blog should take you to my blog.
Can I configure this in Wordpress or what else can I do to achieve this?
I tried mapping it to a new domain, but I’m not sure how to map to a particular route and get it to work when I visit (yyy.com/blog/{blog-name}.
Yes, you can set up a WP site in a subfolder of your main website. I don't recommend doing it manually, too much can go wrong. Use a plugin such as Duplicator - it's so simple to use:
Install it on the site to copy and build a package - this packages your entire website into a single zip file
Copy this ZIP file and installer.php to the the hosting new location on your hosting (e.g. yyy.com/blog)
Create a new empty database
Run the installer wizard and make sure the URL in the new settings is https://www.yyy.com/blog
That's it!
You can have the entire site set up & running perfectly in just minutes! it will even set up .htaccess correctly.
No more setting up the database, changing urls in the database, 404 errors, broken links, broken images, etc. Moving a Wordpress site manually can be tricky and you can waste hours trying to fix the issues. Even agencies use a plugin to avoid the problems.
If I understood your question correctly, you want to move your WordPress installation from blog.xxx.com to yyy.com/blog, right?
There is an official guide for this provided by WordPress: https://wordpress.org/support/article/moving-wordpress/
After you have changed the siteurl and home fields in table wp_options of your database to yyy.com/blog, you can use a plugin like Better Search Replace (https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace/) that scans your WordPress database and replaces every URL of posts etc. with the new URL of your blog.
In addition, in case of an Apache webserver you need to take care of the .htaccess file and change the RewriteBase to /blog (assuming that it was / before).
Some special plugins (for caching etc.) need some special treatment, but often clearing the cache solves the problem.
Well despite Johannes is perfectly clear for me, i'll try to simplify.
Clone WordPress files from blog.xxx.com to yyy.com/blog directory. (not sure how your server is configured, but probably you'll be able to access it.)
Clone Database to new server.
Run sql replace queries:
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, 'https://blog.xxx.com', 'https://yyy.com/blog') WHERE option_name = 'home' OR option_name = 'siteurl';
UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, 'https://blog.xxx.com','https://yyy.com/blog');
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, 'https://blog.xxx.com', 'https://yyy.com/blog');
UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_value = replace(meta_value,'https://blog.xxx.com','https://yyy.com/blog');
update your wp-config.php to match your new database.
login to yyy.com/blog/wp-admin
go to settings and update your permalinks

Error Moving WordPress

I'm in the process of trying to move a WordPress site from "example.com/wordpress" to "newsite.com" and I've run into some considerable trouble.
I made a backup of the database and put a copy of all of the WP files onto the new host. I then tried to change the URL, but got a bunch of errors on the new page. I tried to revert back to the old site in the hopes getting everything in order again, but now everything redirects to the "new" site. My wp-config and database settings are all the same as they once were since I never deleted them off the old site. I've since deleted the files from the new site. The page is still redirecting and I can't access the dashboard login.
I'm completely at a loss right now, so I could really use some expert opinion. Thanks for any help that leads to a solution.
Old Site Link
If you have access to phpmyadmin or any interface for your database you can go into the wp_options table and update rows 1 and 36. As jogesh_pi mentioned, the base url of your site is stored there, so you will need to update the database with your new path.
You can run this query in phpmyadmin and it will do it for you. Obviously replace the newsite url with your own.
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = 'http://www.newsite.com' WHERE option_name = 'siteurl' OR option_name = 'home'
You need to run a database query that updates all instances of your old URL with your new URL. The process is explained in detail in the Wordpress Codex.
I like to use this very useful PHP script for running the database update automatically as it takes into account serialized strings which in certain cases can break widgets or plugins if they are not addressed.
I always run into this issue, I use this plugin now to transfer wordpress sites: http://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/
But heres a quick fix:
Login to phpmyadmin, go to your database
Go to wp_options
Change these two options to your new url where my url's are the old ones:
If your wp-content folder is of the old site contents, it should pick up. But if your images dont show, use a URL changer plugin like this one: http://wordpress.org/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/
it's just a simple query that helps you to transfer your wordpress site from old to new.
update wp_options set
`option_value` = replace(`option_value`, 'example.com/wordpress', 'newsite.com');
beside this make sure about the file permissions and the database is same that you have used in the old site.

How to change root url in wordpress for existing blog

I did mistake and didnt change my root URL when started work with WordPress, for now I have my blog with about 30 pages and I need change root URL.
My wordpress located:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\wordpress
My blog stays as theme under:
...\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\themes\myblog
My domain URL:
http://www.myblog.co.il/wordpress/wp-admin
index.php located:
...\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\themes\myblog\index.php
when I run my main page aka index.php I see http://www.myblog.co.il/wordpress
therefore all generated permalinks look like:
http://www.myblog.co.il/wordpress/?page_id=158 ... .
The main quiestion is: How to change:
http://www.myblog.co.il/wordpress to 'http://www.myblog.co.il/' in order to change automatically all permalinks? a.e. http://www.myblog.co.il/?page_id=158 ...
I saw enough solutions how to do that from start but not when blog is ready.
Please, help me to find proper solution.
Thanks,
Well first of you'll have to configure a virtual host in Apache to match the domain to your htdocs\wordpress folder and not just to \htdocs. You can read more on vhosts in apache here.
Since Wordpress saves all URLS in their absolute form to the database, you'll have to manually fix this by replaceing the URLS in the database. Assuming you're running MySQL and the current URL to your blog is http://www.myblog.co.il/wordpress, you can use these queries:
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, 'http://www.myblog.co.il/wordpress', 'http://www.myblog.co.il');
UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = REPLACE(guid, 'http://www.myblog.co.il/wordpress', 'http://www.myblog.co.il');
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = 'http://www.myblog.co.il' WHERE option_name = 'home' OR option_name = 'siteurl';
this does not only fix hardcoded links but it also fixes custom links inside the content of your pages and posts.
You tried changing siteurl and home in your options table?
I'm not sure of understanding what you mean, but the page on Moving WordPress might help you.
Assuming nothing else is in root htdocs directory, i.e. if you go to http://www.myblog.co.il/ nothing should show up, update your URL via the admin backend (or via MySQL wp_options table), and move everything inside of the wordpress directory back into the htdocs directory.

changed wordpress address to a site i dont own by accedent, recovering it

I was going through the 'settings' tab of my wordpress site and by accident i changed my WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) to a site i dont own (i accidentally put .com instead of .co.uk)
Now when i go to mysite.co.uk/wp-admin it takes me to the other site (the .com) i dont own, as you can see this is a big problem, is there a easy way i can get back into wp and change this back over ?
is there somthing i one of the wp-config.php files i could download edit and upload again, or a part of a db table i need to update ?
When I developing a site it I do it on a test server and then push to the live server. To do this I change the two fields in the mySQL database. In phpmyadmin you can change the wordpress options.
wp_options table
edit the siteurl option.
and any other instances that you want to make sure are correct.
The following query should find them.
SELECT * FROM wp_options WHERE option_value LIKE '%mysite.com%'
Then edit those files, be sure to make a backup of your database before you do that. It should work but at times changing the database like that might affect things in your menu or else where on your site. It should fix your oops and allow you in to make things right.
Add these lines to the top of wp-config.php:
define('WP_HOME','http://mysite.co.uk');
define('WP_SITEURL','http://mysite.co.uk');
In functions.php, use these two lines:
update_option('siteurl','http://mysite.co.uk');
update_option('home','http://mysite.co.uk');
Load up http://mysite.co.uk/wp-admin, verify that you can get in, and then remove those lines from the files.
go to your phpmyadmin and select the table called wp_otions
change site url to your previous site http://mysite.co.uk.
it worked for me .
Run this query in your MySQL database, with the URL changed to your actual site URL:
update wp_options
set option_value = 'http://example.com'
where option_name in ('siteurl', 'home');
NB: assumes that your WordPress tables are prefixed with 'wp_', adjust as necessary if not.

Wordpress home page shows a 404 error

I have a wordpress site in one domain (say domain1)
Now i created a wordpress in another domain (say domain2)
and put the theme from domain1.
And updated the DB with the Db from domain1
Now while i take new wordpress site's(ie wordpress in domain2) home page ,it shows a 404 error
Will any one please help
You can't just put the wordpress tables from one domain into the DB of another domain. There are some configuration values saved on the DB that need to be updated with the name of the new domain.
That could be the source of the 404 error. To solve this, open the SQL or CVS DB file in a text editor and search/replace the old domain name for the new one.
You have to follow certain steps to 1) move WordPress within a host, and 2) move Wordpress to a different domain.
This mostly involves changing URLs in the database either by moving Wordpress in a certain way so that the database gets updated, or updating the database after the fact. And updating permalinks in .htaccess, too.
See Moving WordPress « WordPress Codex and How to Move WordPress Blog to New Domain or Location » My Digital Life.
None of these steps will change URLs hardcoded in theme files, like header.php or the style sheet if you edited those while building a theme.
SQL queries to change URLs in the database via phpmyadmin.
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, 'http://olddomain.com', 'http://newdomain.com') WHERE option_name = 'home' OR option_name = 'siteurl';
UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, 'http://olddomain.com','http://newdomain.com');
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, 'http://olddomain.com', 'http://newdomain.com');
If the files are there, under the domain. First, try domain2.com/index.php. If it works, you must add an .htaccess file to your directory with the enrty
DirectoryIndex index.php
If it is not there, the domain points to different directory. Then it is not a wordpress related issue, only server config which can be resolved by your host company.
Trouble is, a 404 error can come from so many places. Did you just register the new domain? If so, it might just take a while for the DNS changes to propogate.
You will probably also have to change the configuration settings for the new domain's wordpress site. You can find detailed instructions on how to change it (wp-config.php) here http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php

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