Title: Migration Fail on multiple servers
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Migration Fail on multiple servers

 *  Resolved [badmanmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/badmanmedia/)
 * (@badmanmedia)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migration-fail-on-multiple-servers/)
 * Hi, I designed a website for a client and went to upload it to their server. 
   I did the usual export the database, search and replace to replace the table 
   prefix to wp_ and replace the domain name. I uploaded the database to their MySql
   account, I then uploaded all of the files to the correct directory, amended the
   information in config.php file including the table prefix and all I’m getting
   is a blank screen. I tried it on my own server on a subdomain, again amending
   all of the info as appropriate and for a while, I got a Error Establishing a 
   Database Connection Error but after refreshing the page a few times, I just get
   the blank, website not found page. I have tried using the IP as the Hostname,
   I’ve double checked everything. I also duplicated the file on my local server
   and made a new database to simulate a change of domain and it came up blank there
   too. I am completely out of ideas and i have spent a LOT of time on this for 
   my client. Any Ideas? Thank you.

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 *  [bemdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bemdesign/)
 * (@bemdesign)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migration-fail-on-multiple-servers/#post-4586204)
 * Are they running the same versions of PHP and MySQL as your development server?
   Another possible issue is that they may be using a different server setup (Windows
   IIS vs Apache) which may also cause issues if they aren’t configured correctly.
   I would check with whoever is responsible for their server/hosting and see if
   they have any suggestions.
 * Another possible solution would be to install WordPress from scratch on their
   server (make sure their server can even run WordPress!) and then use WordPress’
   export feature to export your development content and import it into their WordPress
   site using the WordPress import plugin. You would then need to run a find and
   replace on the urls (you can use a plugin like [http://wordpress.org/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/)
   to do this inside of WordPress) and make sure to upload any images/files into
   the upload folder.
 *  Thread Starter [badmanmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/badmanmedia/)
 * (@badmanmedia)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migration-fail-on-multiple-servers/#post-4586377)
 * They are running the same versions of PHP & MySql as us. The duplicator plug-
   in was suggested to me but that failed too. Exporting the content worked to an
   extent. Unfortunately the product portfolio failed to transfer, as this was part
   of the Theme. I will follow up with the theme builders to see if I can export
   the portfolio content separately but there doesn’t seem to be one.
 * I feel a little better about only having to re-build one page rather than the
   entire site.
 * Thank you for your suggestions.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migration-fail-on-multiple-servers/#post-4586377)
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