Does your FTP account have access to the root directory? If not, you need to enter the full path to the backup directory, starting from the top directory that your FTP account has access to.
For instance, if your FTP account has only access to /var/www/ and you have WordPress installed there, then you should type /wp-content/plugins/wordpress-move/backup/ to the Remote Backup Path field on WordPress Move Settings page.
If you typed it wrong on the WordPress Move Settings page, it is most probably directed to the default directory of your account, depending on your server configuration.
The concept of this plugin is very good! But there are some details to fix. I probably used an illegal path, but theres is no longer possible to change it. And why does it say success when it is not? I don’t find the files anywhere. I’ll try to move the backups manually by ftp.
It is possible actually, since neither Simple nor Advanced Migration methods make any changes on the actual installation. You can retry as many times as you want.
File uploads are handled by a library called PemFTP which comes with WordPress by default. It only says it was successful when it really is. If you type a wrong path to that field, your server will either move your backup files to your home directory (or somewhere else) or it will delete it. Unfortunately there is nothing WordPress Move can do about it.
It is not possible to change the path without first removing the plugin and reinstall it.
When I deleted backups from the old site, I got a lot of these messages:
Warning: unlink(/home/…/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-move/backup/DBBackup-13210452171.sql) [function.unlink]: No such file or directory in /home/…./public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-move/wordpress-move.php on line 1466
It is possible. Just go to WordPress Move Settings page and change it?
Did you delete the plugin after opening the Backup Manager? Because deleting the plugin means deleting the whole wordpress-move directory and therefore the backup files. Since there are no backup files to delete, it throws an error.
I use to install WordPress on a subdirectory, wordpress, under the domain (http://old-domain.com/wordpress). That means the Site address and the Home adress are different. I wrote the Site address (http://new-domain.com/wordpress) where the plugins says New domain. After restoring the database, the Site address became http://new-domain.com/wordpress/wordpress and the Home address http://new-domain.com/wordpress, so there is an extra level which does not work. It must be clear which address to use – home address or where WordPress is installed.
I also had a problem that I had to write the New domain each time (while the password was remembered). I once forgot because it is hidden until you press change domain.
You should have written your Domain Name (http://old-domain.com) not your Site Address or WordPress Address, especially if those two are not identical. On every page it says Domain Name, how come it is not clear?
I finally made it! It took me about 10 tries and some hours, but it worked when I did everything right. If you could just make it easier to make everything right, this is a really grat plugin!
It says “Please enter the exact path to your WordPress installation …”. My exact path to the WordPress installation is http://new-domain.com/wordpress
I’m glad to hear everything is fine now 🙂
