Site migration tip

  • Jonas Grumby

    (@ss_minnow)


    1 year, 2 months ago

    I just had a site migrated (by the hosting company via zip files of the database and files) to a new host and was having a lot of problems with some plugins. It turned out that the WP database tables contained absolute paths that didn’t exist on the new server. I had to use PHPMyAdmin to search for a folder name that didn’t exist on the new server, and manually update those incorrect paths in the database tables. After that everything worked perfectly. Something to keep in mind when migrating a site. I hope this saves someone from some headaches.

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  • Thread Starter Jonas Grumby

    (@ss_minnow)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    Thanks for that info. I was wondering if this could have been avoided by importing the database or using a migration plugin instead of backing it up and uploading it.

    Thread Starter Jonas Grumby

    (@ss_minnow)

    1 year, 1 month ago

    I was wrong to say absolute paths. They were actually relative paths, but they were paths that don’t exist on the new server and that was the problem.

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