New host, importing to different install folder

  • ketchtherapper

    (@ketchtherapper)


    11 years ago

    Previously my site (website for my music, DanKetch.com) was hosted on Yahoo! (for any that have made the same mistake, you know my pain). Yahoo requires your WordPress installation to go into a subfolder (for God knows what reason). I named mine ‘main’, so, for example, the URL for my lyrics page had to be: danketch.com/main/lyrics rather than simply danketch.com/lyrics. Now, I’m thinking this might be what’s causing me issues when I try to import my backup file (was just done through the ‘export’ option in the WordPress dashboard), and I always get an error, no import happens.

    Does anyone know of a way I can maybe extract info from this backup file for my pages and posts? Any help or advice would be great.

    I realize they would likely still have the old, now incorrect, URL’s, but I’d imagine I could edit links and addresses without too much trouble (my site is fairly small so far).

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  • slash1andy

    (@slash1andy)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    11 years ago

    Hey there Dan,

    I am assuming that you have an XML file of your site then? Have you tried using a backup/transfer system like BackupBuddy?

    Thread Starter ketchtherapper

    (@ketchtherapper)

    11 years ago

    Hey, thanks for the reply. Actually, the file I have is a zip (this is what the built-in export function gave me), I also tried using ManageWP and it saved an sql inside of a rar file.

    Any ideas with either of these?

    slash1andy

    (@slash1andy)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    11 years ago

    With the sql file, you should be able to open that with either a notepad (textedit on a mac, notepad on Windows) or a code editor, then do a find and replace of the old site URL with the new site URL. Then you can import the saved sql file into the new site.

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