http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support Topic: Migrating from Windows to Linux en Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:10:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/256763#post-1031139 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:05:27 +0000 nathan12343 1031139@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Perfect. I had the copying of files, but not the changing of the URL in the site options.</p> <p>I was also sure to change the custom URL sting to exclude index.php. </p> <p>It now works like a charm!</p> <p>Many thanks</p> <p>Nathan </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/256763#post-1028747 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:05:35 +0000 samboll 1028747@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_to_a_New_Server" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_to_a_New_Server</a> </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/256763#post-1028331 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:56:52 +0000 nathan12343 1028331@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Thanks for that, I'll definitely look out for it. But how do I move the files in the first place? Is it a simple matter of copying exactly what I have on the windows server (and domain) over to the new Linux server (and new domain)? </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/256763#post-1028261 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:28:03 +0000 jeremyclark13 1028261@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>When you get it over to the new server go to your permalinks settings and remove the index.php from the custom permalink. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/256763#post-1028260 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:26:21 +0000 nathan12343 1028260@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>I am in the process of creating up a WP site on a Windows Server (IIS6)(avenuetennis.asteraweb.co.uk) but because of the unfriendly URLs I need to move it to a new domain and server running Linux (www.avenuetennis.com).</p> <p>The current site has data from a MySQL dBase and a number of active plugins that I want to keep. The only reason for the move is the pretty permalinks.</p> <p>When I did a straight copy of all files the permalink structure kept 'index.php' in the url. I know that the new Linux server will allow mod_rewrite.</p> <p>Can anyone tell me how to do this? I guess it could be quite simple... (or should that read hope!)</p> <p>Thanks </p>