Title: change wordpress internal installation path
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# change wordpress internal installation path

 *  Resolved [ampli](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ampli/)
 * (@ampli)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-wordpress-internal-installation-path/)
 * my previous host internal path was
    /home/name/public/wordpress
 * I moved to a diff host
    and new path is
 * /homeNEW/name/public/wordpress
 * some plugins are using the wrong path how do I fix it ?

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 *  [suzettefranck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suzettefranck/)
 * (@suzettefranck)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-wordpress-internal-installation-path/#post-5467336)
 * Usually, when I migrate databases, I like to use Migrate DB because it handles
   changing of the domain and the internal path. Maybe the easiest thing would be
   to use this plugin and reimport your db to your new host, otherwise I would try
   to search the db for the old path and replace with the new path, but that could
   cause problems. [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-migrate-db/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-migrate-db/)
   is were you can find the plugin, I’ve used it to migrate hundreds of sites.
 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-wordpress-internal-installation-path/#post-5467344)
 * [@ampli](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ampli/): Usually all you need to
   do is deactivate and then reactivate any plugins that don’t see the new path.
   Worst case, deactivate and delete the plugin and then reinstall it.
 * [@suzettefranck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suzettefranck/) said
 * > Maybe the easiest thing would be to use this plugin and reimport your db to
   > your new host,
 * No need to do that, and all that will do is bring the old path with the database,
   anyway.
 * Any plugins that are not seeing the new path – like backup plugins – need to 
   be deactivated and reactivated, and then they will see the new path. You may 
   have to deactivate and _delete_ the plugin and effectively reinstall it. But 
   they will pick up the new path.
 * >  I would try to search the db for the old path and replace with the new path,
   > but that could cause problems.
 * And that will cause issues, because a simple find/replace in a database dump 
   will break serialized data, such as used by themes and plugins.
 *  Thread Starter [ampli](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ampli/)
 * (@ampli)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-wordpress-internal-installation-path/#post-5467347)
 * I will try the plugin and update
 *  Thread Starter [ampli](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ampli/)
 * (@ampli)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-wordpress-internal-installation-path/#post-5467442)
 * thanks [@suzettefranck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suzettefranck/) and
   [@songdogtech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * the plugin solved my issue

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