migrating to a new server

  • I recently installed WordPress on my home network. I’ve been using it for a general journal and log. I’m getting ready to change my web server. Has anyone written any instructions on how to move files, so WordPress won’t skip a beat after moving to another machine?
    Thanks,
    –Joe

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  • You’d need to export your database, as well as transfer over any special plugin or hacked files in your WordPress install.
    https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysqldump.html

    Problem are the encrypted passwords. After migrating myself I wasn?′t able to logon anymore, because somehow (my fault ?, please reply) the passwords weren?′t working anymore.
    I ended up setting up a fresh WP, running the install-procedure,
    and manually deleting the tables containing users and plugins in the SQL-Dump-file before Inserting the data into the fresh install. PHPmySql is quite a helper there…

    Backup:
    https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/backup/
    Password changing:
    https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/phpmyadmin/

    We’re having a similar problem. After exporting the old db, and uploading everything to the new server, and importing the old db into the new db, login is failing. We don’t dare risk a new install because we’ve modified WP so extensively with hacks, plugins, and custom coding (w/o documenting any of it, silly rabbits…) that to do a fresh install would equal disaster.
    Tried resetting the password as suggested above but that didn’t work either. Any other ideas?

    No, that’s already taken care of. It’s the same domain, etc., just a new server. While I was in PHPMyAdmin, I changed all the necessary paths, etc. that I could find. However, it’s still not letting anyone (there are several users) log in.

    I’m working with Pixellated on the site that’s the subject of our angst. Entering a login/pass in wp-login.php results in a refresh of wp-login.php and a clearing of the login and password fields, regardless of whether the password is correct or not. No other message. Nada. We didn’t change any of the settings (other than moving to a new server), so mee-sa confus-sed.

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