So, I had my blog hosted through webhostingbuzz, and wasn't a big fan after I realized how poor the customer support was. My husband has a site hosted through godaddy, and figured when the webhostingbuzz hosting plan expired, i'd move my blog over to godaddy. Well, the hostingbuzz plan expired before I realized it, and I had to pay $26 to get my files back from them. After forking over the money, I've now tried to upload my blog onto godaddy, but am having major issues. now, part of this is my fault, because I only upgraded wordpress once, about 2 years ago, and was running a really old version. So, i downloaded the newest wordpress version, deleted all of my old files except for the wp-content folder, and updated to wp-config.php file to reflect the new database info. I then uploaded all of the new files and put them into the folder with the wp-config.php file. the database connections are working, but when I go to the blog address, it is a brand new blog, without any of my old posts. I've spent hours trying to figure this out, but nothing is working. My suspicion is that I need the files from the old database on webhostingbuzz.com, but I don't think they gave me those files. Anybody have any ideas? thanks!
Recovering from an evil host.... (2 posts)
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nanhosen
Posted 1 month ago # -
your content isnt stored in any of the files, its stored in your database.
did you get a database dump from your old host? if not -- thats what you need.
1. First, create a full export of your WordPress database. The best way to do this is with phpMyAdmin, it's the same process as backing up your database. Click here for a post describing how to do that from the WordPress site. You can also find some plugins that will create a full database backup/export. This one will, for instance.
2. If your blog address is changing, you're going to need to filter your database and correct all the paths, or none of your images will show up on your new blog. This is because all of the paths to the images (including your blog address) are stored in the database. I usually open the .sql database export file in a text editor with a good find/replace function and replace the old blog adress with the new everywhere it is found. You also need to make sure that the "wpurl" and "home" options in the "options" table have the correct new address.
3. Next, download all your WordPress files, every last one of them, using FTP.
4. On your new website location, upload all your WordPress files.
5. On your new website server, create a new mySQL database and import the database export file you created (and filtered) in steps 1, 2.
6. Edit your wp-config.php file to make sure your new database name, user, and host info is correct.
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