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1. nathan12343
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Hi,

   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).

   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.

   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.

   Can anyone tell me how to do this? I guess it could be quite simple... (or should that read hope!)

   Thanks

2. jeremyclark13
   Moderator
   Posted 7 months ago #

   When you get it over to the new server go to your permalinks settings and remove the index.php from the custom permalink.

3. nathan12343
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   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)?

4. samboll
   moderator
   Posted 7 months ago #

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_to_a_New_Server

5. nathan12343
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Perfect. I had the copying of files, but not the changing of the URL in the site options.

   I was also sure to change the custom URL sting to exclude index.php.

   It now works like a charm!

   Many thanks

   Nathan

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