Title: changing server
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# changing server

 *  [prashmohan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prashmohan/)
 * (@prashmohan)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-server-2/)
 * Hello i had to change my server for hosting my wordpress blog. I had installed
   the wordpress backup plugin which had generated an sql file for importing.
 * In the new server i have imported the sql file and simply untared the same files
   as was on the original server. Now on the new server i get the error “It doesn’t
   look like you’ve installed WP yet. Try running install.php.” how do i solve this?

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-server-2/#post-330855)
 * Please confirm your procedures here:
    [Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_to_a_New_Server](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_to_a_New_Server)
 *  Thread Starter [prashmohan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prashmohan/)
 * (@prashmohan)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-server-2/#post-330901)
 * Yes I have followed all the procedures mentioned there. My blog is at [http://mutt.in/~prash/blog](http://mutt.in/~prash/blog)
   <– as you can see doesnt load.
 * When I logged into mysql and did `select * from wp_options` the screen started
   filling with -‘s and +’s, it did not show me the contents. would that be the 
   reason?
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-server-2/#post-330904)
 * Maybe try using character set of file to latin1 when restoring sql database.
 *  Thread Starter [prashmohan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prashmohan/)
 * (@prashmohan)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-server-2/#post-330910)
 * check again. the database values are OK
 *  Thread Starter [prashmohan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prashmohan/)
 * (@prashmohan)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-server-2/#post-330911)
 * i used to have the DB on mysql 4.1 on the previous server which had CHARSET=latin1,
   but the new server runs mysql 4.0.x which does not support CHARSET, so i removed
   the CHARSETs as per a link google gave me. is there no work around without using
   CHARSETs?
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-server-2/#post-330915)
 * Check Podz’ advice here:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/55643?replies=4#post-302889](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/55643?replies=4#post-302889)
 *  Thread Starter [prashmohan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prashmohan/)
 * (@prashmohan)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-server-2/#post-331001)
 * that was the very link that i referred to before. I have replaced `DEFAULT CHARSET
   = latin1` with nothing and then imported the script into mysql. Still the problem
   exists.

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-server-2/#post-331001)
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