transfering word press website?

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by dockfish, Jan 17, 2008.

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    Hi ,
    Recently i bought a word press site and would like to transfer to my hosting company hostgator from the sellers host.

    please help?
    :confused:
     
    dockfish, Jan 17, 2008 IP
  2. Richie_Ni

    Richie_Ni Illustrious Member

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    Just copy your wordpress down to your PC - and then login into the phpmyadmin and the make an export of your data and insert it into the new database.

    Then open wp-config.php and change it to the new database :)
     
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    make a copy of the files, then a dump of the database.

    Upload them to the new server and make sure that you edit the config file for the database connection
     
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    Also, make sure that there won't be any conflict happens if there is any mysql version mismatch between the servers. For example, if your previous host had mysql 4.x version and new host has mysql 5.x version installed, that can cause some errors after the transfer. To avoid it, you need to take the mysqldump compatible with the mysql version installed in the new server.
     
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