Title: Help restoring blog!
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Help restoring blog!

 *  Resolved [supernatural66](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supernatural66/)
 * (@supernatural66)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-restoring-blog/)
 * I am not a programmer-my idiot shared hosting service decided that my blogs were
   using too many of their resources and moved me to a semi-private server. The 
   problem is when my site was moved- none of my php wordpress files came over- 
   they are all blank.
    I have replaced them with wordpress 2.51 files from the 
   installer download packet , I have updated the config.php file and I cannot seem
   to get my existing posts to show up in wordpress. The database is just not connecting
   to the front end. What am I doing wrong? I do not have an xml export file to 
   use to repopulate wordpress with as my hosting company did this without telling
   me. Am I completely screwed? I can look at my tables and see the data is all 
   in the sql databases- wordpress just won’t read it.
 * E-mail to multipleverses at gmail dot com
 * I want to move one ( preferably both) of my two blogs from this server to a new
   one as I do not have faith in my hosting company. If I could get some help with
   what steps I am missing here- help would be appreciated!
    All of my sql data 
   is intact and I have backups of the sql files- no xml export files though

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 *  Thread Starter [supernatural66](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supernatural66/)
 * (@supernatural66)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-restoring-blog/#post-800534)
 * OK- so after trying every trick I could find online and working on setting every
   php code manually- I am giving up on the old host.
    To install to my new host
   using my old sql databases- what are the steps to map the tables to wordpress
   with a new installation in a new place?
 * I know to do these things:
    Set the database settings in the wp-config.php file
   What else? Remember- I don’t have the xml export file to do the mapping. Looking
   for help here!
 *  Thread Starter [supernatural66](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supernatural66/)
 * (@supernatural66)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-restoring-blog/#post-800558)
 * Ok- I need some help here- I am trying to re-install my blog using the SQL that
   I had backed up from my previous blog. I have loaded the database to an empty
   one on my new server and have all of the info in the database.
    I then use my
   site’s autoinstaller to map a new fresh install of wordpress to my database which
   has my data in it. When I go in to manipulate the blog using the admin console
   it installs it by inserted a duplicate set of database files and not reading 
   the existing ones. What am I doing wrong?

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-restoring-blog/#post-800558)
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