Title: Problems Migrating to New Server
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Problems Migrating to New Server

 *  [4duckisland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/4duckisland/)
 * (@4duckisland)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-migrating-to-new-server/)
 * I have a WordPress site on a server that I want to move to a Yahoo Small Business
   server. I also want to change the url of this site. It’s not working. Here’s 
   what I’ve done…
 * I backed up the current site into a desktop folder doing the following:
    • Using
   the WordPress Database Backup plugin I made a copy of the database. • Using Filezilla
   I copied the wp-content folder, the wp-config.php file, and the .htaccess file
   into this folder as well.
 * At Yahoo I used the one step install to create a new, virgin WordPress site.
 * Using phpMyAdmin I imported the current site database to the new WordPress site.
   
   Using Filezilla I moved the current site wp-content folder and wp-config.php 
   file to the new site. It would not let me move the .htaccess file.
 * When I try to access the site I get the ‘Error establishing a database connection’
   message.
 * Does anyone have any suggestions, or have a website that deals with this topic?
   I didn’t delete anything from the new site – should I have? Should I create a
   new site on Yahoo without any WordPress files and move all the files and folders
   from the current site into this? Or is everything I’m doing wrong?
 * If I use dreamweaver to look at wp-config file I see something like what’s below(
   not real data). What do I need to change here? Thanks for any help!
 * /** The name of the database for WordPress */
    define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘euirunbpy_wordpress6’);
 * /** MySQL database username */
    define(‘DB_USER’, _[redacted]_);
 * /** MySQL database password */
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, _[redacted]_);
 * /** MySQL hostname */
    define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);
 * /** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
    define(‘DB_CHARSET’,‘
   utf8’);
 * /** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */
    define(‘DB_COLLATE’,”);

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-migrating-to-new-server/#post-3759821)
 * **Moving:**
 * – review this codex: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress)
 * **‘Error establishing a database connection’:**
 * – If you get a page featuring the message “Error Establishing Database Connection,”
   this means that there is a problem with the connection to your database and there
   could be a number of reasons for this. The following codex lists possible reasons
   and solutions:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Common_WordPress_Errors#Error_Establishing_Database_Connection](http://codex.wordpress.org/Common_WordPress_Errors#Error_Establishing_Database_Connection)
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-migrating-to-new-server/#post-3759948)
 * Change your database username and password NOW! And never, ever, post sensitive
   information on a public forum like that again.
 *  Thread Starter [4duckisland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/4duckisland/)
 * (@4duckisland)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-migrating-to-new-server/#post-3760130)
 * Esmi: thanks for the warning, but none of the db or password info I posted was
   real – I’m not that naive!
 * But it looks like I might have found a possible answer to my issue. Yahoo Small
   Business doesn’t allow you to update .htaccess files. If this is so, doesn’t 
   that prevent me from moving a WordPress site from another server to Yahoo?
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-migrating-to-new-server/#post-3760133)
 * It doesn’t prevent you from moving it, but id **does** prevent you form using
   pretty permalinks for URL’s. Without the .htaccess file you have to use the standard
   permalink structure of ?p=123.

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