Move my wordpress from one hosting to another

  • Resolved Diegan

    (@diegan)


    14 years, 11 months ago

    Hi.

    I am in the painful process of moving my site from a cpanel hosting to another cpanel hosting. I say painful because I am scared of doing it badly, and because I am such a newbie, I think I will certainly make it wrong.

    Do you guys know of a guide to do it, or have any recommendations form me?

    In the old cpanel, I can make backus of everything.

    I don’t know if I should:

    A) Make a backup with cpanel, and in the new cpanel hosting, go to ‘backups’ and try to restore with the backup files from the old hosting (and I don’t know what would happen with databases!)
    or
    B) Install a new wordpress with fantastico, and try to build my site again and put the database.

    One of the problems that scare me the most, I don’t exaclty know what is the user my database uses :S

    Any tips/help will be appreciated ??

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  • I moved my site recently and I did it this way:

    1. I created a new WP install (same version of course) on my new host.

    2. Via FTP I transferred all plugins and theme(s) from the old host to my pc and then to my new host.

    3. I’ve set up the new version in the same way, all plugins same settings, theme set up the same way. I did nothing with categories and/or tags

    4. I did a tools – export on my old host.

    5. I did a tools – import on my new host. It copied posts, categories, pages, tags, comments and the uploads attached to the posts.

    6. It worked just fine.

    Thread Starter Diegan

    (@diegan)

    Thank you, did not know that option. Will try it!!!!

    Thread Starter Diegan

    (@diegan)

    It worked great, thank you so much!

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