How To Move A Blog
Emma | Aug 30, 2009 | Comments 0
Moving a WordPress blog, can be a little more complicated than moving a static site, because of the WordPress database.
If your current blog is on cPanel, the easiest way is to use cPanel to create a full backup, and then have the hosting company of the new user install it for you.
You may be able to ftp it to your pc, and then email it to them, or even better remote ftp to a file on their server. Unless you have a dedicated server and shell access, you won’t be able to install the files yourself.
Another easy way is to give your hosting company access to the cPanel of the site you want to move. That way they can download whatever files they need to do the transfer.
Once the site files are transferred then you can change the dns of the domain to point to the new hosting server.
If you are not using cPanel, or want to do the install yourself you can follow these steps:
1. Download the site files (everything in public html)
2. Download database tables using PHPmyadmin http://web.archive.org/web/20080822132551/http://www.clearpointsystems.com/wp04/?page_id=18
3. Create an account on the new host.
4. Create a new database on the new account.
5. Write down the new database name, user name, and password.
6. Import the tables from your backup into your new database.
7. In the site files you downloaded find wp-config.php, edit this file so that the database name, user name, and password are the same as the ones you wrote down for the new database. Also make sure the db host matches with HostGator it will be localhost.
8. Upload these site files to the new server. When the dns changes you will know if it worked.
This will work in most cases. But there is a limitation to the size of the database you can transfer this way. So if it is a very large site you will still have to email your hosting company and have them install the database for you.
I usually use DreamWeaver to edit wp-config.php but you can use a text editor such as notepad, then use ftp to overwrite the old file.
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