gmee
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
Posts: 15
Location: Spokane, WA
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 Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 7:45 am Post subject: Moving Your Blog |
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Hi All,
Ros brought up the subject of moving blogs from
one domain to the other. Since I just moved a couple
I thought I'd chime in.
This applies to wordpress, though I assume other platforms will be similar.
1) download all wordpress files from your current server to your hard
disk. You'll find these files in whatever folder your blog lives in.
So if it's www.DomainName.com/blog/ then download everything
in the blog folder.
2) go into your control panel, into the MySQL section and
find your PHPmyAdmin program. If you have cpanel it will be
at the bottom of your database management page.
3) While in PhPmyAdmin pick the database that holds your blog.
Somewhere on the page you'll probably have a tab that says "export."
Do that, making sure you select ALL files, and export it to an SQL
file on your hard disk.
4) Go to your new host and create a database. Go into PHPmyAdmin,
select your new database, and find the import tab.
Now some control panels (eg: hsphere) don't have an import tab,
so you'll have to talk to your customer service people.
If you do have an import tab (cpanel hosts generally have one) then
just import your SQL file from your system to your new database.
5) Find your wp-config.php and open it up in notepad or some other
text editor. Enter all your new database info: name, password, etc.
Since you had to fill one of these out for your original blog this
should be easy.
6) Upload everything to your new host. Don't forget the old .htaccess file.
Everything should come up or give an easy to follow prompt, such
as "your database needs to be updated," which it will then do.
Log in, poke around, make sure everything works.
There ya go.
Greg
PS: If your blog is really valuable then I'd suggest making a practice
blog first. Put a few junk posts in it and move that one.
Then, once you know how it works move the main blog.
PPS: Make a video and sell it. |
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