After migrating a WordPress site to a new domain (renaming the root folder) I found that my new site kept forwarding to the development domain. As I was unable get into the admin screen of WordPress to change the base URL of the site I had to alter it directly in the database.

The path to the base URL of the site is:

Server: yourServer.com > Database: Database_name > Table: wp_options

In the options table you’ll find a value named ‘URL’, change this to the new domain name and you should be good to go.