sorry, don’t think i read that correctly. Are you looking to change web hosts? if so, who is your current host?
a bit confused. so if you could start from the beginning and walk me through what you’re trying to do, that would really help.
Are you moving from one web host to a new web host?
If so, take a look at this guide:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
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hhipal
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First, allow me to make excuses for myself. I am totally new to wordpress. This website was put together long ago and the person who did it is no longer around.
As I understand how things work, wordpress is an online website creation software that provides a whole bunch of cool easy to use plug and play modules for creating some web-comerce (as well as blogging and other stuff) websites.
All that being said, the best I can tell is that output of wordpress is pushed to some webhosting service. In my case, it appears to be Rackspace. The guy (and owner) or the domain and website, wishes to change the webhosting service, for reasons that are not exactly clear to me. So yes, I am hoping to redirect the files,pages,databases, etc created in wordpress from the existing webhosting service (Rackspace) to another to be decided hosting service.
I do not know how to do this or perhaps my underling presumption is wrong.
You can do that but you’ll need access to the existing hosting account to export the database and the WordPress files and folders.
Once those have been moved over to the new host, you’ll want to update the DNS to point to the new webhost.
See this link: http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_to_a_New_Server
You should see this, http://codex.wordpress.org/New_To_WordPress_-_Where_to_Start
WordPress is a publishing (blogging) tool. It runs on your hosts computers.
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hhipal
(@hhipal)
Thanks guys for the help. I’ll read what you recommended and figure out how to migrate the files. I can do the redirect on the dns thing too.
The question that remains is this. I want to continue using wordpress to maintain the site until I figure out another way to do it. So, let’s say I make an update. Something simple like changing a photo. How does wordpress know where to push the new page to after I make the change? There must me a way that wordpress knows where to push updates to?
You need to login to the site on the server using a browser – you make the changes via the WordPress Dashboard in the browser window.
The changes are made directly to the site –
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons
Pages and posts are dynamically produced by php and then rendered as html. If you change a photo for another, that is recorded in the database and the next time a page with that photo comes up the new one will be there. Nothing is pushed, it is fetched.
