Changing web hosts

  • Resolved rarcher30

    (@rarcher30)


    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hi there,

    I’m about to change web hosts in the wee early hours of the morning as to minimally affect users accessing the website and mainly to do it when no one is booking any events.

    My question is, if changing web hosts in the middle of an event that is taking paid bookings, will this cause any issue with the plugin and database? Would I be able to bring across the complete state of the website including all the booking information?

    Is there anything I should be aware of?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/

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  • caimin_nwl

    (@caimin_nwl)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    How are you planning to do the migration?

    Thread Starter rarcher30

    (@rarcher30)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Like pretty much all migrations i have done
    Export down an SQL file from the DB.

    FTP download all the WP files (do an xml export as extra insurance)
    FTP upload the files into the new host. Create a new db and import the SQL file.

    Modify the wp-config.php file so that its got the right details and setup (i.e. db name, db user, etc). Upload the .htaccess file as well.

    login and let WordPress do its thing and update the db, go in and re-save the permalinks to make sure it can write to .htaccess file.

    Compare live .htaccess file with version I downloaded from old web host to make sure all the rules are still there.

    That’s about it, besides some good ol ‘tyre kicking’ and testing

    caimin_nwl

    (@caimin_nwl)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    That sounds fine. The main thing, for Events Manager, is to move a complete copy of the database so that events, bookings, ticket and users are all in sync.

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