Title: moving
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# moving

 *  [mrppp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrppp/)
 * (@mrppp)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-4/)
 * What is the best way to move a site from one domain to another, database will
   be and site will be on same server as old

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 *  [kulwant2sin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kulwant2sin/)
 * (@kulwant2sin)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-4/#post-4028821)
 * First verify your site in google webmaster tools so that you do not lose your
   traffic and then from there move your site from one domain to other . And then
   actually do the procedure .
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL)
 *  Thread Starter [mrppp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrppp/)
 * (@mrppp)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-4/#post-4028822)
 * OMG right not as straight forward as i was hoping.
 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-4/#post-4028823)
 * As long as you have a complete backup (files and database) and are prepared to
   restore that backup then there’s not much real harm you can do to your installation.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups)
   
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database](http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database)
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup](http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup)
 * Make that backup and _then_ try changing your URL.
 *  Thread Starter [mrppp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrppp/)
 * (@mrppp)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-4/#post-4028847)
 * would it work if i created the new site fresh install, new database then when
   set up just copy the database backup across
 * actually we just migrated the original site from one server to other and from
   memory we only changed a few settings config to point to database. but i guess
   domain remained the same
 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-4/#post-4028854)
 * > would it work if i created the new site fresh install, new database then when
   > set up just copy the database backup across
 * You’d _still_ have to follow the instructions here.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL)
 * The backup of that database has the old URL embedded in it.

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