Introduction

Hi Yani, thank you for making this plugin available. I used it to move an installation from a folder to the root and everything went smoothly apart from the images from my NextGen Gallery. Do you have any idea of what I did wrong? The plugin, folders and galleries/albums all moved fine just not the images.

Thank you, Angela

Hi Angela,
Thank you for the feedback.

Here is what you need to do to accomplish your task:
1. You need to re-export your database, only the database, because the rest of the data has been transferred properly.
2. When you go to the export page, you need to make use of Find/Replace with fields.
In the Find input field enter: /your-folder-name/
In the Replace with field enter: /
3. Export the package
4. Import the package

The above will search for any occurrence of /your-folder-name/ in your database and replace it with /

Let me know how it went.

Hi Yani, thank you for such a speedy reply!

Before seeing your reply I had manually copied the directory contents from my gallery folder which fixed the NextGen gallery images that I had inserted in posts but not the ones in my galleries but when I re exported the database as you suggested it all works perfectly, thank you so very much ??

This is a great plugin, I’ve been looking for something like it for ages as I have several sites running on Ammps on my pc and need to move them to their destinations and this will make life much easier!

Hi Yani,

Just found this plugin and look forward to use it. My question – will it work for situation like moving the blog from one web hosting to AWS ? I am thinking along the line of …

1) Export the blog data from host
2) Replace any URL point to the original domain, to AWS IP
3) Import the blog to AWS, and test
4) If ok, replace any URL with AWS IP to original domain name
5) Change the DNS setting …

Any feedback welcome and many thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Michael

Hi Mike,
Yes, that’s the exact use case for the plugin that you have described. I am available to give you a hand if you have any difficulties.

May I ask why you decided to go for AWS?
At ServMask, we are also building a hosting environment for WordPress and I’d like to know what users want from a WordPress hosting.

Hi Yani,

Thanks for the swift reply. I think as long as the hosting services provider doesn’t have many restriction (memory, bandwidth etc.), that’s fine. For AWS, seems the users like us will have more controls on those.

Cheers,
Michael

Thanks Mike!
It sounds like what you are looking for is what we are aiming to build. Our philosophy behind hosting is one that autoscales.
Basically, you deploy your website to our platform and we will scale as soon as you need more memory/disk-space/bandwidth.
We don’t have a fixed monthly price, you pay for what you use.

Keep an eye on our website, https://servmask.com, or if you want to be notified when we are ready, subscribe to our mailing list.
Our goal is to beat the price of hosting providers like AWS and yet offer better service for WordPress powered websites.

Great and certainly will check out Servmask services.