I need two databases to co-exist

  • symphonia117

    (@symphonia117)


    8 years, 3 months ago

    So, I’ll start off saying that I usually do more of the design-end of things and am new to the SQL interaction portion.

    I basically have two wordpress installations. One is hosted on MDD and the other on GoDaddy. I will be migrating the managed GoDaddy WP to my MDD host where an installation already exists. These are two different websites. I have already moved all of the files, and I have the database file exported and ready to move to MDD. I am, however, unsure of where to go from here. I need to upload the new database via phpMyAdmin I believe, and then change the wp-config file to match the database?

    So, I’m here to get two things solved. What do I do to get the old database file running on my SQL server? And how do I accomplish this without interfering with the existing wordpress database?

    folder structure looks like this if it matters:

    account
    >public_html
    >>(main site wp files)
    >>newsite.com
    >>>(newsite wp files)

    Thanks to any and all who can lend their time!

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  • KostasNi

    (@kostasni)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hi symphonia117,

    You can have two or more WordPress sites running on the same server, where each site has it’s own database.

    What you need to do is create a new database on MDD and then import database export file you have from GoDaddy.

    I am not familiar with the MDD Control Panel, but there should be an option to create a new database. There should also be another option to open phpmyadmin. In phpmyadmin, you can go to the database you just created and use “Import” to upload the .sql file you have.

    If you haven’t already, I suggest reading this article first: Moving WordPress > Moving to a New Server

    Feel free to post follow up questions in this topic.

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