Can anyone please help?

  • Resolved markyp77

    (@markyp77)


    12 years ago

    Hi, I have made a massive mistake on my site, I made a backup of all files and the SQL, but didn’t realise u couldn’t do that then just upload to new domain name, I spent 2 weeks as a novice putting this site together, is there anyway I can get it back again with the files I have and the SQL database backup? Huge thanks in advance for anyone that can help

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  • catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    12 years ago

    That is all that you need, so you can get the site back up from that.

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

    That should give you all of the information that you need to complete the move. The basics are that you need to upload the files to the new server, create a new database and import the SQL backup into it, then modify the wp-config.php file to set the new database connection details. After that the site should work correctly.

    Thread Starter markyp77

    (@markyp77)

    12 years ago

    Hi I have done this but I am still having problems, nexus template has problems and none of the links works or pages etc

    muddg

    (@muddg)

    12 years ago

    When you say “nexus template” has problems, can you supply more info?

    As to links, it is probably a case of URL’s are still pointing to the old domain name. They need to be converted. There are plugins that will do that. I cannot recommend a specific plugin but this article (point number 5) recommends the Search and Replace Plugin.

    There is a suggestion I can make that might resolve a lot of issues but it would require access to the old domain. Is your old domain still active or has it expired? And where is your website hosted? The old and the new?

    Thread Starter markyp77

    (@markyp77)

    12 years ago

    Hi, I have managed to do this now thank you or your help

    muddg

    (@muddg)

    12 years ago

    Oh good!

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