Title: changing databases
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# changing databases

 *  [bob.passaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobpassaro/)
 * (@bobpassaro)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-databases-2/)
 * Long story about why I’m doing this, but I have made a clone of my blog’s database—
   has a different name, username, password than the original.
 * It’s on the same MySQL server as the original.
 * I want to start running my blog out of the new database. So I have to change 
   the three lines in wp-config.php, correct: DB-NAME, USERNAME and PASSWORD.
 * My question is, is that all I have to do. If the database is truly identical,
   should those edits to the wp-config be all I have to do.
 * I’d just try it, but you know, it’s a live site. So just checking.

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 *  [RGBY](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rgby/)
 * (@rgby)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-databases-2/#post-3711375)
 * Should be fine just updating the lines there.

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