Need to upgrade PHP version, server’s saying I have to start over completely

  • Resolved seriouswpcues

    (@seriouswpcues)


    4 years, 7 months ago

    Running a WordPress Site, running the 5.2.3 version, a few basic plug-ins, as well as a Paid version of “Word Fence”; I’m getting the message in my WP Admin Dashboard that’s telling me to update my version of PHP.

    I’ve checked with my web-host, before, about doing what is necessary to upgrade to a PHP7, such that I could then use that with my WordPress site.

    But my web-host seemed to say that they have to move our entire site to a Dedicated server, on their web-host end, in order to activate PHP7.

    This means I have to lose everything on our current WordPress site and re-install it again. I really want to keep everything as-is and keep our current design, all of our posts, just, everything having to do with our site, when I then put it back up on a new MySQL database, reinstall the site, etc.

    How can I do this? Is Plugin: All-in-One WP Migration able to do such a thing, or is simply the two-pronged method of

    1) using the FTP method to download all of the things via FTP and then re-uploading them to the public root

    2) since my web-host does phpmyadmin, utilizing the https://wordpress.org/support/article/backing-up-your-database/ and https://wordpress.org/support/article/restoring-your-database-from-backup/ methods

    Are these two steps all I would have to do? I’m just really really uneasy about losing everything, or the site not looking the same anymore after, essentially, obliterating it, and restoring it in this way.

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  • waptug

    (@waptug)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    Yes. All in one will help you.

    Step 1. Install all in one plugin on your current server and export it to a file and download the file to your local pc.

    Then Once you get your dedicated server setup and point your domain to it and it is resolving correctly and you are able to install a default out of box wordpress on it then you install the all in one plugin and restore your site.

    Presto your site is back up and running on the new server.

    waptug

    (@waptug)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    As a side note I would consider looking for a host that offers the same type of shared hosting you have that is updated to php7 already so you don’t have to manage a dedicated server as they are quite complex to manage and cost more too.
    I use GeekZoneHosting.com and they work great with php7.

    Plugin Author Yani

    (@yaniiliev)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    You should ask the host to transfer your files.
    If they refuse to do it for you, I recommend you to look for alternatives.
    When you transfer to another machine/host the plugin can do the entire transfer for you.
    Export to file
    Import from file
    The transfer is complete.

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