Help restoring blog!

  • Resolved supernatural66

    (@supernatural66)


    16 years, 5 months ago

    I am not a programmer-my idiot shared hosting service decided that my blogs were using too many of their resources and moved me to a semi-private server. The problem is when my site was moved- none of my php wordpress files came over- they are all blank.
    I have replaced them with wordpress 2.51 files from the installer download packet , I have updated the config.php file and I cannot seem to get my existing posts to show up in wordpress. The database is just not connecting to the front end.
    What am I doing wrong? I do not have an xml export file to use to repopulate wordpress with as my hosting company did this without telling me. Am I completely screwed? I can look at my tables and see the data is all in the sql databases- wordpress just won’t read it.

    E-mail to multipleverses at gmail dot com

    I want to move one ( preferably both) of my two blogs from this server to a new one as I do not have faith in my hosting company. If I could get some help with what steps I am missing here- help would be appreciated!
    All of my sql data is intact and I have backups of the sql files- no xml export files though

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  • Thread Starter supernatural66

    (@supernatural66)

    OK- so after trying every trick I could find online and working on setting every php code manually- I am giving up on the old host.
    To install to my new host using my old sql databases- what are the steps to map the tables to wordpress with a new installation in a new place?

    I know to do these things:
    Set the database settings in the wp-config.php file
    What else?
    Remember- I don’t have the xml export file to do the mapping. Looking for help here!

    Thread Starter supernatural66

    (@supernatural66)

    Ok- I need some help here- I am trying to re-install my blog using the SQL that I had backed up from my previous blog. I have loaded the database to an empty one on my new server and have all of the info in the database.
    I then use my site’s autoinstaller to map a new fresh install of wordpress to my database which has my data in it.
    When I go in to manipulate the blog using the admin console it installs it by inserted a duplicate set of database files and not reading the existing ones. What am I doing wrong?

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