downloadsquad.com — WordPress (WP) is a piece of cake to install, but what if you need to move a WP install to another host, and you don't want to deal with your posts being all wonky and your links weird? You can try using the import function of WP, but I found it to be very hard to work 100% and give you exactly what you had before.
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ottoOct 16, 2006
Seems overly complicated. All you really have to do is to backup the database and download all the files from the website. Then restore the database at your new host (you may need the host to do this for you) and upload your website's files. Last, but most important, is to edit the wp-config file to point to your new database. No need to go through the "install" process for WP at all, really. Not if you have a full database backup. All the install does is to create a blank/empty database.
bryceman111Oct 16, 2006
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5ymb10t3Oct 16, 2006
Editing the wp-config file does not work in many cases for some reason. Though it seems like it should work by just backing it up and reloading it, it doesn't for many hosts.
karmarhinoOct 16, 2006
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krynskyOct 17, 2006
I just went through this very recently and more closely followed Otto's steps (in the actual post's comments) with the exception that I didn't do a full DB restore...in most cases I backed up and restored tables in batches. First the core ones used by WP then secondly Plugin specific ones. It was a good Exercise in familiarizing myself with tables plugins create which can be helpful later. In fact I realized that there were many remnant tables created by plugins that I had abandoned long ago and had no place being restored in a fresh install.I also didn't restore the WP_Options table since I was trying to setup the new install while the old one was still running, so I A/B'd the options set from the original install to the new without changing the "Wordpress address (uri)" so I could continue to work and compare the funtionality of the two. I know that there were many other details regarding my migration that I didn't document or are mentioning here, but these were pretty key for me.
ottoOct 17, 2006
Editing the wp-config file will work just as well as doing a fresh install and then overwriting the database with your backup will. Why? Because they are *exactly the same thing*.