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How to Move WordPress to a Different Server and Web Address

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How to Move Your WordPress Blog to a Different Server and Web Address — Part 1 of 2

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  1. August 24th, 2009 at 21:54 | #1

    Hi figaro,

    I moved blog again. and all seemed to go as planned utilizing your videos here, very helpful :) However, I just found out my images are uploading to the old blog. I did the find/replace, did I miss something?

    When I look in the database I see the images in the new database but in the guid column it shows they are in the old blog image upload: http://www.the-fly-on-the-wall.com/blog/wp-content (should be in the-fly-on-the-wall.com/wp-content) I found that the images where going to the wrong folder while looking for them in FTP.

    Thanks a million.

    Tam

    Tam

  2. August 25th, 2009 at 06:25 | #2

    @Tammy: In your admin, go to Settings/Miscellaneous and make sure the upload path is correct.

  3. August 25th, 2009 at 13:32 | #3

    Oh man your awesome! That was the problem. Didn’t realize I had to change that. WOOT! Thanks! Tammy

  4. September 16th, 2009 at 19:34 | #4

    This video tutorial is amazing! I’ve been dealing with this problem for a week and couldn’t find any easy-to-follow directions on this topic. Everything was very confusing! The directions I previously followed ended up taking my retail website offline for 7 days! After watching this video once, my site was back online and running perfectly! I can’t thank you enough!

  5. September 16th, 2009 at 20:35 | #5

    Thanks so much for this video tutorial. It really helped me out!

  6. Shennan
    December 2nd, 2009 at 12:37 | #6

    I had a wordpress blog that went to subdirectory blog that I moved to subdirectory franchise_blog. I accidentally deleted the blog subdirectory, which made my franchise_blog not work properly (ERROR ESTABLISHING A DATABASE). Do you have any idea how I can redo anything without losing any posts etc?

  7. December 2nd, 2009 at 18:40 | #7

    @Shennan: Without being able to actually see what you have set-up, I not sure what to advise.

  8. December 19th, 2009 at 07:19 | #8

    Hi i adopt the same way but on new host its giving 404 not found error..
    All post are there.. in admin panel but on site when we click on any link it give following error… i dont have .hsaccess file

    ***********************
    Not Found

    The requested URL /2009/10/whats-new/ was not found on this server.

    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
    Apache/2.2.13 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.13 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at link4movies.com Port 80

  9. December 19th, 2009 at 09:33 | #9

    @Rajeev: Could be a lot of things, but if you can login to the blog, then try resetting your permalinks to default and see if that helps.

  10. Mike
    February 20th, 2010 at 01:13 | #10

    wordpress newbie——-can’t seem to locate the ‘move wordpress to different server’
    video—-have found the posts, but no video, so would like to get directions.

    thanks in advance!

  11. February 20th, 2010 at 07:47 | #11

    @Mike: The two YouTube videos are embedded in this post.

  12. March 5th, 2010 at 09:25 | #12

    If you’re interested in this post, you might want to take a look at the ezMigrate plugin: http://techblog.triptic.nl/ezmigrate-plugin-for-wordpress/

  13. March 23rd, 2010 at 02:46 | #13

    Hi, I followed your video instructions to the letter, thank you so much for posting this for us all. I only have one problem. I can’t see my blog. After I’d gone through the steps the first time, I realized I didn’t have WP installed on the new site, so I deleted all the files, database, etc, installed WP, and then went through the process again. I still can’t see my blog files, and don’t know what to do. Any ideas?
    Thanks in advance

  14. March 23rd, 2010 at 03:28 | #14

    oops! forgot to check the “Notify me” box

  15. March 23rd, 2010 at 06:15 | #15

    @Helene Goldberg: Looks like you put it in a subdirectory…is this it: http://25reasons.net/wp/

  16. March 23rd, 2010 at 06:28 | #16

    @figaro
    yes, that’s it.

  17. March 23rd, 2010 at 06:35 | #17

    @figaro
    yes, that’s it. that’s where I installed the WP applicaton through cPanel. I uploaded my database to public_html into the folder 25reasons.

  18. March 23rd, 2010 at 06:46 | #18

    Okay…well, you can either leave it there or move it to root.

  19. March 23rd, 2010 at 07:51 | #19

    OK, and now what. I cannot get my blog to show on the new site. what should i put in the admin/setting/miscellaneous Full url path to files? Should it be blank, or should I put “http://25reasons.net/wp/”, or something else?

  20. March 23rd, 2010 at 14:54 | #20

    Hi Figaro, nothing I tried worked, so I’m starting from scratch again. I’ve deleted the database, and the files. I have uninstalled WP through the cPanel of my web hosting. All’s clean.

    Should I begin by doing a one-click installation of WP through cPanel?

    Thanks for your help with this.
    H

  21. March 23rd, 2010 at 15:27 | #21

    @ Helene Goldberg: No…just install the wordpress files in root. Do everything like you did before, but take all the files out of the WP directory and have them sitting in your public_html directory…don’t have them in a folder.

  22. March 23rd, 2010 at 15:34 | #22

    Hi Figaro, please forgive my ignorance, I’m embarrassed to ask, but what do you mean by root? which directory is that? And I’m a little confused about not installing WP first. The blog I’m transferring from is on a site where I first installed WP through the cPanel with a one-click installation. If I don’t have WP installed on the new site, then how will it all work? When I zip up all my files to export them, does that take ALL the app files with it?

  23. March 23rd, 2010 at 18:19 | #23

    Hi Figaro, when I go to file manager, i have the option to open the following directories:
    Home Directory
    Web Root (public_html/www_
    Public FTP Root (public_ftp)
    Document Root for: mydomain
    Which one should I open?
    Which one should I zip up to export?
    Thanks again,
    Helene

  24. March 23rd, 2010 at 19:42 | #24

    @ Helene Goldberg: It may be easier if you just send me the Cpanel login info for your site…I’ll install it for you and then you will see what I mean when you log in and look in the file manager. If you want me to install it (no charge) just send me the Cpanel login info…you can use the contact form on this site.

  25. Edin Cenanovic
    May 14th, 2010 at 04:56 | #25

    Hello figaro.
    First, thanks for the great tutorial.
    But i have one problem. I moved the Blog succesfuly, but when I will go to the DashBorad, it offers me to install WordPress. Then, I’ve gone to the file manager to find install.php and remove it, but there is no install.php. Don’t get it.
    Have u a idea what to do?
    P.S Sorry for ma bad english, but I think u got the point :)

    Regards, Edin

  26. May 14th, 2010 at 05:57 | #26

    @Edin: Be sure to move your wp-config.php file from the old install to the new location.

  27. Edin Cenanovic
    May 14th, 2010 at 06:53 | #27

    @figaro: I’m pretty sure I moved it.
    Here is a ScreenShot form the file manager http://img.ba/1bqs

  28. Edin Cenanovic
    May 14th, 2010 at 06:56 | #28

    Maybe I should edit the wp-config-sample.php too?

  29. May 14th, 2010 at 07:37 | #29

    @Edin: Then it sounds like you didn’t import the database tables…if the db it is connecting to is empty, then you would get the prompt to install.

  30. June 3rd, 2010 at 20:36 | #30

    If this is a quick answer for you, maybe you can help. I have edited the header and other parts of wordpress theme, but now when I try to edit a .php file (header or any other) I get this message:
    Sorry, you cannot edit this file. I thought maybe there was an issue with the theme. Nope. I tried to edit header, etc, in other themes, same problem. I AM new, but have made huge progress.

    I think maybe I need to uninstall and reinstall. But I don’t know if my saved copy (which has the problem in it) will be back with the reinstall. Also, I don’t feel confident that my posts will be there.

    Again, if this is a quick answer for you, I’d love your insight. Looks like you know your stuff!

  31. June 8th, 2010 at 09:13 | #31

    @barbara loraine: Sounds like a server file permission problem and not a WP issue.

  32. Barry Joyce
    July 7th, 2010 at 08:57 | #32

    figaro

    Thanks for the video. Installed perfectly and running well – great

  33. KR
    July 29th, 2010 at 11:49 | #33

    Thank you very much. The 2 videos made the most sense to me for this task!

  34. James
    August 25th, 2010 at 14:22 | #34

    Hi there. Great video. I moved my blog from root to /articles. Everything worked fine except my added pages (about, contact us). I’m getting a 404. I deleted them and tried recreating within WP figuring that would help but still getting 404 when I click on those menu choices. Any ideas of where to look?

    Thanks.

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