Moving WordPress Site based on Pages without database? Help, please.

  • splurben

    (@splurben)


    14 years, 4 months ago

    Summary of problem:

    A friend has a ‘difference of opinion’ with his web designer — I offer to help. Yikes.

    I need to take a site that uses WordPress Pages, with all the files downloaded by FTP but no database backup, and rebuild the site on a new server.

    E.g.: http://oldserver.com/wordpress/
    http://newserver.com/

    I installed WordPress on the new server, uploaded all the site files, updated the settings in the wp-config.php so that the new, empty database access details are correct. I’m not getting errors, but no content either. I don’t pretend to know about WordPress; I am familiar with databases and websites.

    Essentially, none of the WordPress Pages are showing up, not even broken ones with errors that can be addressed, which is what I was expecting. Can anyone say if the Pages will be recoverable without a database backup? Or, give me any pointers about things to check?

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  • govpatel

    (@govpatel)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    All pages and posts are saved in database and you will need to have database. There is no way you will see the pages and posts from originating website without database backup.

    Thread Starter splurben

    (@splurben)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks for that, I’ve found a database, but it’s older, so I’ll load a site backup from then and go from there. Cheers. Kirk

    Thread Starter splurben

    (@splurben)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    Pages have come through partially. I suspect the database doesn’t match the content of the ftp backup. I have full admin access to the server, where should I be looking for errors? PHP? APACHE2? or elsewhere? Thanks for your help. I’m nearly there.

    govpatel

    (@govpatel)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    where should I be looking for errors? PHP? APACHE2? or elsewhere?

    As I said before what ever you have in database is what you see as you restored a old database you will only have waht there when the backup was made.

    You will not find anything in core files or folders.

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