Title: Moving WP within my server
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Moving WP within my server

 *  [dunkkan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dunkkan/)
 * (@dunkkan)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wp-within-my-server/)
 * Hi guys & gals,
 * I’ve been reading the docs about relocating your blog in another directory, and
   I’m asking myself if it wouldn’t be easier just to backup the database, make 
   a fresh install inside your new directory, and upload into it the database.
 * That would be three easy steps which you’re quite familiar with, and with not
   so many risks.
 * What do you think about it ?
 * All those steps in the docs, and the caution you must spend in them, are quite
   intimidating to me, so perhaps I just wanted to do it the basic way.
 * Thanks for all your opinions.

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wp-within-my-server/#post-1022595)
 * Moving from domain1 to domain2?
 * Moving from folder_a to folder_b?
 * Moving from web-root folder to web-root/folder_a?
 * Moving from web-root folder/folder_a to web-root folder?
 * Which is it?
 *  Thread Starter [dunkkan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dunkkan/)
 * (@dunkkan)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wp-within-my-server/#post-1022599)
 * Hi Michael, thanks for posting,
 * It is the option 3, moving from web-root folder to folder_a, but I’d like to 
   know as well the option 2 – from folder to folder.
 * And, indeed, the rest of the options 🙂
 *  [figaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figaro/)
 * (@figaro)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wp-within-my-server/#post-1022600)
 * Take a look at the following videos.
 * [http://educhalk.org/blog/?p=82](http://educhalk.org/blog/?p=82)
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wp-within-my-server/#post-1022606)
 * Also, check [Moving_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress) right
   here in our Docs section.
 *  Thread Starter [dunkkan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dunkkan/)
 * (@dunkkan)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wp-within-my-server/#post-1022612)
 * Wow figaro thanks for that reference is just what I was looking for 🙂
 * So I could move the WP core files / make a fresh install in the new directory,
   then export and EDIT the database as you show here, then import the modified 
   database ?
 * Could I import the database through the Admin Panel too, right ? If it’s a fresh
   install with a new database, then there’s no need to clear the old tables manually,
   it is that ?
 *  [figaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figaro/)
 * (@figaro)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wp-within-my-server/#post-1022614)
 * > Could I import the database through the Admin Panell too, right ? Without clearing
   > the old tables manually ?
 * You would need to do that though phpMyAdmin like I show in the video.
 *  Thread Starter [dunkkan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dunkkan/)
 * (@dunkkan)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wp-within-my-server/#post-1022621)
 * Ok, thanks a lot. I guess I could try to create a new database too, associate
   it to a brand new install, then fill it with the modified .sql file.
 * Do you think there can be some problems that way ?
 * I’m not habituated still to PhpMyAdmin, that’s why I have a sort of fixed idea.
 * Then I could rewrite the uploads (images) via ftp.

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