How to change WordPress main URL to new one

Using WP-CLI (preferred):

Enter folder where your WordPress is installed:

username@server1 [~]# cd ~/public_html

Create backup of your database:

username@server1 [~/public_html]# wp db export

The following command won’t do any change because of –dry-run key specified but show you tables and amount of replacement

username@server1 [~/public_html]# wp search-replace 'OLDdomain.com'
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