Moving To New Server – Having Issues with Media

  • Doug Hanna

    (@douglhanna)


    10 years, 2 months ago

    We are moving our WordPress site to a new domain host. I currently have the site running on the new server, but none of the featured images are there.

    In WordPress, the Media Library says “No media attachments found.” even though I uploaded all of the images via FTP.

    How can we get all of the featured images back?

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    Did you follow the relevant steps in Moving_WordPress?

    Thread Starter Doug Hanna

    (@douglhanna)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    Download a copy of the main wordpress files from your OLD blog to your hard drive and edit wp-config.php to suit the new server.
    Go back to your OLD blog and go to Administration > Settings > General and change the url (both of them) to that of your new site.
    Login on your server and go to phpmyadmin and export as file and save your database (but keep the old one just in case), upload this new database and the copy of the wordpress core files with the edited wp-config.php to your new server. That’s it!

    From Moving WordPress.

    I’m not sure what changes I’m supposed to make to wp-config.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    The new database details need to be added to your wp-config.php file.

    Thread Starter Doug Hanna

    (@douglhanna)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    Important to note that right now the new website is at day4ministries.newserver.com, while the old site is located at day4ministries.com

    When I switch the new website URL to Day4Ministries.com, will that effect the media library?

    Thread Starter Doug Hanna

    (@douglhanna)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    It’s a new install of WordPress on the new server, I just uploaded all of the media files via FTP.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    Please re-read http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#On_Your_Existing_Server

    Thread Starter Doug Hanna

    (@douglhanna)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    The site is on a new server. Everything moved over correctly except for the media library.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    The site is on a new server.

    Then you need to read the instructions in this section.

    Thread Starter Doug Hanna

    (@douglhanna)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    I did all of those instructions, but I’m not sure what to put in wp-config.

    I know I’m a little behind on all of this.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    The new database details need to be added to your wp-config.php file.

    Thread Starter Doug Hanna

    (@douglhanna)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    I just checked wp-config. The database name, user, password, and host are all set.

    The only problem is that the media library still says “No media attachments found.”

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