Title: Moving Servers
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Moving Servers

 *  Resolved [dakuwan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dakuwan/)
 * (@dakuwan)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-servers-2/)
 * I have been banging my head against the wall on this one all day. I am moving
   to a new server. Everything is setup exactly like the existing site. It has the
   same version of PHP, MySQL, same database name, same user name, same URL. I have
   copied the database to the new server and it is showing in MySql. I have copied
   my site folder to the new server. IIS is setup and DNS is done.
 * When I go to the site it only shows a blank page. When I go to the admin I get
   a page saying wordpress hasnt been installed and prompts me to install it.
 * I verified that wordpress is hitting the database by changing the user settings
   and it came back saying it could not connect to MySQL. I changed the user back
   and it goes back to the install prompt page.
 * Has anyone else gotten this? What is the solution? I have looked around and the
   closest symptom I could find was for the blank page and involving templates. 
   This doesnt apply to my case since WordPress is prompting for an install.
 * I have been forced to point everything back to the old server till I figure this
   out.
 * Please help me out on this. Thanks.

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 *  Thread Starter [dakuwan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dakuwan/)
 * (@dakuwan)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-servers-2/#post-569610)
 * Just wanted to let everyone know what the solution was in case anyone comes across
   this. My MySql tables were somehow corrupted during the transfer to the new server.
   If you get an issue like I described above log into MySQL and attempt to list
   the contents of a table. In my case I could not query the tables which led to
   the error.

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