replacing old soholaunch site with new wordpress site

  • hettygreen12

    (@hettygreen12)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    I am totally confused although I have read all the wp documentation about . Can someone help please?

    I have a site previosuly designed on soholaunch on a friends domain. I have designed him a new wordpress site to replace the soholauch site. In cpanel the root directory shows a load of files – some under soholaunch and some by themselves. Under that lot in the root directory is a separate folder which has my wp install that contains my wp admin, themes and all my content. That is my new site which I want to the replace the soholaunch site with.

    How to I get rid of all traces of the soholaunch site and uninstall it and have my wordpress site come up for my domain. How do I do this and ensure there are no database problems thrown up by the old site. As I say I have read the wp codex documentation by I am still very confused. Many many thanks.

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  • shadez

    (@shadez)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    assuming your root folder contains files only of the individual site which you want replaced, and you have access to DB and http://FTP..

    create a new folder called ‘temp’ under root and move all files and folders inside it except wordpress installation folder.

    now migrate wordpress from subfolder to root folder. check this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
    its quite detailed and self explanatory. make the necessary database table entry changes as well.

    if your new wordpress site is all healthy and functional on root, then you can delete the temp folder.

    now you are left wit the database.
    if wordpress uses a separate DB then you can directly remove others.
    if they both reside in the same DB then you will have to manually drop the other tables. all wordpress tables will be preceded by wp_, check your wp-config.php for this entry – $table_prefix = 'wp_';.

    Thread Starter hettygreen12

    (@hettygreen12)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Shadez

    assuming your root folder contains files only of the individual site which you want replaced, and you have access to DB and http://FTP..

    No the root folder contains soholaunch which is the site that is current up for the domain, a number of other folders that installed along with the soholaunch install and then there is the folder I set up which contains all my wordpress stuff for the new site. As such my root folder does not contain file only of the individual site which I want replaced. The WP folder containing the wp install and wp files is also under the root. Should I still adopt your suggested workflow to resolve my problem?

    Also Im just not following the technicals of the DB workflow. Many thanks

    Thread Starter hettygreen12

    (@hettygreen12)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    I have managed to put all the files and folders in the temp file and have put a copy of the index.php file in the root directory pointing to the wordpress file. I changed the wp dashboard settings so now the site appears correctly under the correct domain. Thanks for that …. however I have not done anything about databases. It appears that the old soholaunch site had its own database. Can I get rid of that now? How do I get rid of it?

    That leaves doing a search and replace on the wp_post. I do not know what this involves? Can anyone assist? Thanks.

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