joeydav

Thanks both of you.

I’m not sure if you’ll follow up with me because this seems to get more complicated by the minute, but I just wanted to make clear: This isn’t a routine case of moving the wordpress install from a subdomain to the main domain of that subdomain.

Currently the new site isn’t on a subdomain on my server. We’ll call my server newsite.com. (*note: this is an addon domain to hosting account.) The site I’m moving is oldsite.com.

The way it’s currently configured, the site isn’t on staging.newsite.com, it’s on staging.oldsite.com because the site admin for oldsite.com has configured the CNAME an A Record a specific way with newsite.com’s IP address.

So this isn’t a matter of moving the wordpress install from staging.newsite.com to newsite.com. It’s being moved from staging.oldsite.com to newsite.com (even though it’s on newsite.com’s server server which is an addon domain of a different site entirely)

Whew! Given that confusing bit of info (lol!) is it still a matter of moving the wordpress files as instructed above from the “staging” folder to the “newsite” addon domain folder?

Thanks!

I can see the username, just not the password.

ok, I’ll redo my wp-config. How do you recover the password from cpanel? Or can I just assign a new user and password to that DB?

Thanks so much.

odd, because it shouldn’t be. The wp-config file hasn’t been altered that I can tell.

Is there any permissions-related issues from the wp-includes folder?

Actually, I’m working from another computer and the original install was done by someone else.

OK, based on how long I know the install has been on the server, I re-uploaded the wp-includes file from 2.3.3

Now I’m only getting: Error establishing a database connection

Thanks for taking the time to respond

I did. But in my case, my includes folder is NOT missing. I have no issue in re-uploading wordpress but I forget which version I was using. Is there a way to tell from my files on the server?

thanks! Script didn’t work, though. ??

OK, the comments imported, but they were placed in the wrong posts. In other words, comments from recent posts were placed in posts that are months old.

Any clues? Thanks.

I guess where I’m missing the point is the wordpress install I have already has an importer. So the conclusion I have at this point is the new plugin reconfigures the existing importer to pull in the comments and draft posts as well. But in running it, the comments still do not import into the new blog.

So am I missing something?

…and in the directions, it says, “his will allow you to download an export of your WordPress posts and comments in an XML format usable in WordPress.com”

This is the reverse of what I need. I’m going FROM a wordpress hosted blog TO a new fresh install in a new server. I need the files from the wordpress hosted blog imported into the new fresh install. Using the wordpress.com feature, comments don’t import.

ok, maybe I’m just being dumb. When I install the plugin on my new wordpress install, it wants to EXPORT from the new blog (that has no entries yet) instead of IMPORTING from my old wordpress hosted blog.

Question: Isn’t this for a wordpress install and not for a wordpress.com hosted blog?

I’m importing FROM a wordpress.com hosted blog to a new wordpress blog hosted on a new server.