[HOWTO] Manually backup/restore WP Site

  • [I am selfhosting using the latest WP (3.3.2) using W7-32bit]

    My system has crashed, but I still have access (via command line) to all the files, including my WAMP site. In addition, I can start mysqld and mysql from the command line.

    I would like to figure out how to move my WP site to my new system, a W7-64bit computer. Except for the word-length, the new system will have an identical directory structure and network configuration as the old one (same IP, subnet, etc.,).

    My plan is to move the site using the following steps:

    PHASE I:
    1) On the old system, use mysqldump to backup the WP database.
    2) zip/compress the WP directory tree (C:\wamp\www\*).

    PHASE II:
    1) Install fresh WAMP-64 on the new system.
    2) Using mysql, recreate & restore the backup of the previous system.
    3) uncompress/zip WP directory tree from old system into new system’s C:\wamp\www\* directory.

    Cheers,

    Michael

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  • And what is your question? ?? Just do as you explained and you’ll be fine. You’re on the right track.

    Thread Starter mtp1032

    (@mtp1032)

    OK, after I did the above steps here is what happens when I try to bring up the site (https://localhost/blog):

    1) It takes up to 3 minutes to display the first page.
    2) No images are displayed. The page is text only.
    3) Clicking on any link (e.g., to another page) takes another 3 minutes, but this time it fails to find the page with the error message

    “Oops! Internet Explorer could not connect to your website.”

    Browsing the Database with phpadmin shows that all the tables are there.

    Any suggestions?

    Michael

    Michael,

    What was the path on your old server? Was it https://localhost/blog or did it have another directory in between?

    It sounds like that paths to your images, stylesheets adn other resources are wrong. Open the sql file with a text editor and if the paths are wrong, do a search and replace for all of them. Unfortunately I can’t see your site (it’s local) otherwise I could give you some better answers.

    Thread Starter mtp1032

    (@mtp1032)

    The path to my website is https://thussaidthelord.com. This URL maps to my server at C:\wamp\www. A user is then redirected to a subdirectory, .\blog (C:\wamp\www\blog) in which the files of the wp installation reside.

    Using thussaidthelord or thussaidthelord/blog both result in a 403 error, suggesting a permissions problem.

    When using localhost, however, the behavior is different. In this case, localhost/blog opens the website in text-only mode. However, clicking any of the site’s internal links garners another 403 error. But, here’s the strange thing — when I return to the previous page, it is displayed perfectly including the images.

    Any suggestions as to how to proceed would be very, very much appreciated.

    Michael

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