Assuming the /wp2 subdirectory containing the staging site has its own WordPress .htaccess file (with the standard WordPress front-controller, see below). Then the .htaccess in the document root should contain something like the the following, above any existing directives, to rewrite all requests to the wp2 subdomain to the /wp2 subdirectory: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} … Read more
Did you check the two URLs in the wp_options table? That’s where WP gets the base URL for a site. If you moved the site database from staging to live, you may have forgotten to change those values in the wp_options table.
How to sync staging to production but keep plugin settings
Multiple users working on WordPress admin at the same time [closed]
Staging environment for pages only
Create brand-new re-designed site without affecting live site?
You need to update your domain links in your database. See this answer: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/384023/202168
Check out this search and replace plugin. The benefit of using an absolute URL is that you can easily find and replace it, either with the plugin linked above or an SQL statement or even using some built in WordPress API’s. So I wouldn’t do anything differently the next time. I used the search and … Read more
Sorry to say, but the problem was that, in production, I had activated the parent theme instead of child theme. I am embarrassed by this cluelessness and I apologize for making you waste your time
I noticed that the staging environment had different content in its wp-config.php and .htaccess files. I changed them to be closer to the ones on the live environment. While I was there, I noticed that some of the differing content was related to various caching plugins that we previously had installed on the staging environment. … Read more