How to transfer wordpress database to another domain

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    How to transfer wordpress database to another domain

    I have a wordpress blog and I now want to use another domain name.

    How to transfer the database completely to new domain name.
     
    falguni1, Apr 2, 2009 IP
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    ThreeGuineaWatch Well-Known Member

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  3. deluxdon

    deluxdon Catch Me If You Can...!!!™ Staff

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    Just take 'Home Directory' backup and 'My SQL DB Backup' from your old host and restore it at new host.

    BTW why don't you ask this to do this process to your new hosting provider as they can easily doing this directly from old hosting to their hosting.

    DON.
     
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    omshanti Well-Known Member

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    the hosting provider will charge you at least $50 for the same!

    Hire someone to do it if you don't know how to do it!

    Let me know if you need help! thanks!
     
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    AnnAnderson1015 Banned

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    I'm new to IT, so bare with me. Can you just use a FTP client and copy all of your data onto your comp and then take it to the new host?
     
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    falguni1 Peon

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    I am not changing my host.

    I only want to change the domain name.
     
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    In that case you don't need to transfer the database anywhere. Just copy the wordpress files to another directory and point your other domain to that directory.
     
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    Yes, all you do is go to your current wordpress admin and then look at the settings. Make a note what your settings are example: Is your Domain listed at http://yourdomain.com or http://www.yourdomain.com (Make a note of this) then go to your other settings like 'writing,' 'reading,' 'discussion,' etc. Make a note of your permalink structure and a few other things. If you have a custom wordpress theme, then make a note of any additional settings you have made for your theme and then once that is done, use a FTP program and download all the files on your host to your hard drive into a folder that you have named after the domain.

    Then enter PHPMyAdmin on your host and export your database to your desktop. It can be uncompressed or in compressed format. Then simply make a note of the username, database username and password and hostname and then proceed to transfer everything to the new domain. Use FTP again to upload all the files and folders you saved in that folder on your desktop and then create a new empty database and populate it with the database information your saved, and last step is to add all the necessary info and make sure that the settings are the same as before.

    Short and quick version.
     
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