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13 years ago

ask your new host to do it for you. it's a free service that most, if not all, hosts will provide for you when you open a new account.

if you are going to move the wp site manually, i have a video on my blog (in sig) showing how I do it.

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Chri5123

13 years ago

Originally Posted by trishworks4u

ask your new host to do it for you. it's a free service that most, if not all, hosts will provide for you when you open a new account.

if you are going to move the wp site manually, i have a video on my blog (in sig) showing how I do it.

Yes think i will need to do it as it is for a few sites.

Can you please pm me a link to the video?

Chris

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Istvan Horvath

13 years ago

Not complicated at all - if you have the basic understanding of a database-driven site... and have some familiarity with the necessary tools: FTP and phpMyadmin (usually, accessible from cPanel)

- download via FTP all the files and folders of your WP installation
- Export the MySQL database of the blog via phpMyadmin as a .sql file
- upload the files and folders to the new server
- create an empty database on the new server and Import the .sql file via phpMyadmin
- if necessary, edit the wp-config.php file to reflect the changes in database name, DB user, pw and/or DB servername > upload it

Normally, if the nameserver info has been edited properly at the registrar... it should work.

There might be necessary some small tweaking/editing but I am not going to talk about them if you are not taking this manual route.

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trishworks4u

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

Not complicated at all - if you have the basic understanding of a database-driven site... and have some familiarity with the necessary tools: FTP and phpMyadmin (usually, accessible from cPanel)

- download via FTP all the files and folders of your WP installation
- Export the MySQL database of the blog via phpMyadmin as a .sql file
- upload the files and folders to the new server
- create an empty database on the new server and Import the .sql file via phpMyadmin
- if necessary, edit the wp-config.php file to reflect the changes in database name, DB user, pw and/or DB servername > upload it

Normally, if the nameserver info has been edited properly at the registrar... it should work.

There might be necessary some small tweaking/editing but I am not going to talk about them if you are not taking this manual route.

yeah - what he said. but mine is a visual of this (same process).

sent you a PM

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Chri5123

13 years ago

Hi Istvan,

Thanks man!

I think i can follow that pretty much.

I will let you know how it goes and make backups of everything first!

Thanks again,

Chris

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Istvan Horvath 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Chri5123

Thanks man!

I think i can follow that pretty much.

You are welcome

Yes, it is quite simple when you have the basics. It sounds like a scary task for those that never heard about FTP, didn't ever open phpMyadmin and "know" only to do a fantastico install.

Otherwise it is a very simple, boring, routine series of steps.

And YES, back up everything before starting. Sorry that I forgot to mention: for me it's so obvious that I often forget to mention it...
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