Moving WordPress to Another Hosting Provider

  • Yağmur

    (@yozgurguven)


    11 years, 4 months ago

    Hello, I have a problem which is a little bit complex. I’d appreciate any help or idea to solve this issue…

    I’ve had a wordpress site that has been working fine but because of the monthly bandwith limit, it went down a few days ago. My hosting provider recommended me to upgrade to another hosting plan which is more expensive but still has a limit.

    I found another hosting provider which offers unlimited bandwith and larger diskspace for the same price with the first one and I bought that one. Then changed NameServers to a new one (because domain name didn’t change), crated MySQL database for the new place, downloaded whole wordpress files from old place with ftp and uploaded them into the new place including newly configured wp-config file.

    Then logged into wp-admin, all my posts, pages and widgets are gone, it shows a plain&blank wordpress site.

    WordPress files are still on the old hosting provider also and I am able to reach them with ftp but cannot create a backup file by using wordpress because of the bandwith problem on the old hosting place.

    How can I have my pages and posts back, any idea?

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  • Marvel Labs

    (@royalprince)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    You need to transfer database as well. Access phpmyadmin from cpanel of your old web hosting and import all the tables from database. You can alsofind the database credentials from your wp-config.php files of old site

    Then export it to your new web hosting using phpmyadmin. You can also find the database credentials from your wp-config.php files of new site.

    Tada…

    Thread Starter Yağmur

    (@yozgurguven)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Is there a way to reach phpmyadmin without using cPanel?

    Marvel Labs

    (@royalprince)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    yes check your wp-config file
    You can also find the database credentials from your wp-config.php files of old site

    Thread Starter Yağmur

    (@yozgurguven)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Last question! Are credentials those lines which looks like: é|?j9Ys=i[<n+#+rAc(v!/KqwlQYdX#WSO+xuIj} ?

    Marvel Labs

    (@royalprince)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    You can ask any amount of questions dear. We are here to clarify.
    No those are not credentials.

    Please see http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php

    Thread Starter Yağmur

    (@yozgurguven)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Ok, as long as I can’t reach phpmyadmin of old site, I could use wp-config.php file of old one to import tables to phpmyadmin of new site. Is there a tutorial for this? I checked the page about editign wp-config and I’m lost.

    ancawonka

    (@ancawonka)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    You can’t use just wp-config.php to export tables. You have to actually get access to your mysql databases.

    Most hosting providers have a URL that will allow you to reach your cpanel w/out the domain name. You might call up your guys and ask them what that URL is. If you can do this, then you can get to PHPMyAdmin.

    Here’s an excellent article about Moving WordPress between hosts: http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

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