[Plugin: WordPress Move] Migration scenario that appears unsupported

  • Resolved MarkStega

    (@markstega)


    13 years, 12 months ago

    I have a development system/environment that does not have FTP access. I successfully moved my WordPress site to it’s intended destination (www.somesite.com) and between this plugin and the Velvet URL rename plugin all went well. I’d like to move a copy of the site (lots of new blog entries, comments, etc) back to the development system but it appears that the migrate function requires the ftp connection. It would be nice if the “create backup” could optionally support a migration also.

    Or am I missing something obvious and this is supported?

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-move/

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  • Plugin Author Mert Yazıcıoğlu

    (@merty)

    13 years, 11 months ago

    It is “kind of supported” currently but will make this a feature in the next version so you may either want to try the following or wait for the next version. It’s your call 🙂

    1. Enter dummy FTP connection details on WordPress Move Settings page on http://www.somesite.com to bypass the “Do we have the FTP connection details on file?” check.
    2. Go to Migration Assistant and select the Migrate option.
    3. Fill in the Change Domain Name (Optional) section so that all occurrences of http://www.somesite.com will be replaced by localhost/somesite/ or whatever URL you use locally.
    4. Start the migration.
    5. Once the plugin fails to connect the remote server because of dummy FTP connection details, it will terminate the operation.
    6. Go to /wp-content/plugins/wordpress-move/backup/ directory and grab the backup files created during the terminated operation.
    7. Put those backup files to the same directory on your local installation.
    8. Go to Migration Assistant on your local installation and select the Restore option.
    9. Click the Complete Migration button to complete the process.

    Thread Starter MarkStega

    (@markstega)

    13 years, 11 months ago

    Mert,

    Thanks, I never went to the migration assistant since I knew that it uses FTP but this makes perfect sense. On my next migration I’ll try this. In the short term I had done manual backups of the source files (just using 7Zip) and database (using MySQL Workbench). I found used the script suggested on the “Moving WordPress” article on the Codex (SearchReplaceDB21). Your method, even now, should be easier.

    -thanks-

    Plugin Author Mert Yazıcıoğlu

    (@merty)

    13 years, 11 months ago

    You’re welcome, glad to help! I’ll be waiting for your post on how it went 🙂

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