Title: Problem moving database
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Problem moving database

 *  [PSSMike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pssmike/)
 * (@pssmike)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-moving-database-1/)
 * I backed up my database from one WP installation as I was moving my site to another
   hosting service. Once the new installation was up and running I went in to my
   phpMyAdmin screen and selected the new database and did the import and all seems
   to have gone through smoothly. But when I log into my new WP site none of the
   post or pages show up.
 * What did I do wrong?
 * Thanks for your help.

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 *  [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
 * (@adiant)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-moving-database-1/#post-7660946)
 * Unless I misunderstood you, you do not seem to have moved the old files over 
   to your new site. A WordPress Move consists mainly of copying both the WordPress
   database and the WordPress file structure (the WordPress folder and all its files
   and subfolders) from the old site to the new site.
 * This is explained, along with a few other important steps, here:
    [https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress](https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress)
 * This plugin, if it works properly in the web hosting environments (old and new),
   automates the process:
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/)
 *  Thread Starter [PSSMike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pssmike/)
 * (@pssmike)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-moving-database-1/#post-7660968)
 * Thanks for the info. What I did was backed up everything on the old site including
   all the files and database.
 * The new host is a “Managed” wordpress service where they set it up as a new blank
   install. The url stayed the same.
 * Once the new site was up I went in with sFTP and copied all the back up files/
   folders ect to the new site except for the wp-config as I was told it would have
   the new database info and url stuff for the new site.
 * The I went into the phpMyAdmin and selected the new database and did the import.
 * I read over the steps in the link you provided and I think I basically did the
   same thing. I’m going to go back in via sFTP and make sure all the file and folders
   copied over.
 * Is there a specific file/folder that the post and pages would be in?
 * I couldn’t use a plugin to make the move as the server was having issues (old
   server I was told) and I could not log into the site via wordprss as it kept 
   timing out. So I use FTP to copy all the folders and files and use the database
   manager to backup the database.
    Sometimes you can’t do things exactly by the
   book.
 * Thanks again for everyones help and comments.
 *  [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
 * (@adiant)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-moving-database-1/#post-7661004)
 * Sorry for the delay in responding.
 * The documentation and plugin that I pointed to won’t work to copy the contents
   over from an old site to a fresh install of WordPress. Most people who do that
   use Export and Import.
 * Rather than try and craft a solution for you without knowing the exact details
   of what your new Managed WordPress host has set up, I think it makes a lot more
   sense to ask their Support folks exactly how They want you to migrate your site
   over without clobbering specific settings and plugins that they have pre-installed.
 * If you no longer have access to your old web site and cannot do what they ask
   you to on your old site, but do have a complete backup, I suspect you may have
   to use that backup to create a complete WordPress site on your new hosting, perhaps
   in a folder, and then migrate parts of it to the pre-installed WordPress site
   in the root directory according to your new host’s instructions. A two step process,
   but it does give you some better options.

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 * Last reply from: [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-moving-database-1/#post-7661004)
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