Posted 12 months ago #
Apologies for re-posting, but could not find a post I thought I had put up :)
I am looking at moving WP site and am following http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress but need to know which files I need to move and to which folders on new hosting servers.
Posted 12 months ago #
if you do not need to install new wordpress, you can move all folder and files to new host.
for example your old wordpress installed on wordpress folder(domain.com/wordpress), then you just need to move wordpress folder into new host.
if not, you can install new wordpress on new host then move wp-content folder* only due this folder contains your theme, plugins, uploads, & etc related to your wordpress.
*) of course with any files and folders inside.
Posted 12 months ago #
"If you do not need to install...."
I am assuming I have to install, and would do so by using Fantastico offered in cPanel which creates installation incl DB.
Current site is on http://www.domain.com, and wanted to move to new hosting provider and test before updating DNS. I know I will need to modify URLs otherwise I will be redirected, but this is fine.
Based upon an existing installation, do I still only need to move wp-content? Then also export/import DB? THen edit wp-config.php?
Posted 12 months ago #
Plus, which wp-content are you referring to? www or public_html?
(Do you know why there are these two folders which appear to have same content?)
[ Duplicate http://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-25?replies=5 Closing. Please do not open up new threads for the same topic, keep to the original one instead. ]
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