Title: WordPress Migration Concerns
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# WordPress Migration Concerns

 *  [decarn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/decarn/)
 * (@decarn)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-migration-concerns/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m migrating to a new host and am deciding to take this opportunity to set up
   a test site (an exact mirror of the live site), clean up all unnecessary files
   and apply all updates.
 * My first step is to copy all my files and folders to the new host. However, I
   realized that my directory contains non-WordPress files e.g. error_log (300MB)
   and other folders that I do not think is WordPress related.
 * 1) Can anyone advise what are the exact WordPress files to copy to my new host?
   
   2) Do I have to copy .htaccess, .ftpquota to my new host as well? 3) Is it possible
   to do a fresh WordPress installation altogether and then manually configure and
   copy each individual file.
 * I’m in favor of Option 3 although it will be a very tedious task and I am not
   sure if I can recover the same database.
 * Please advise thanks.

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 *  [emke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emke/)
 * (@emke)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-migration-concerns/#post-2280778)
 * decarn,
    the easiest way to do this is to set up a new WP install and than import
   a db dump from your old server which contains posts/pages and other related stuff.
   Be warned migrations depend on your data (old vs new install) so it might not
   work out of the box always (check wp-config if your db info is the same, etc).
   Read more about migrating on [http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress)
 * If you decide to do this manually and want to see what files on your current 
   host are WP related, download WP to your computer, extract it and you can compare
   files from your computer to the ones on your host. There are not that many files
   after all…
 * If you search for “migrate wp” on Google there are many detailed tutorials.
 *  Thread Starter [decarn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/decarn/)
 * (@decarn)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-migration-concerns/#post-2280914)
 * Thanks emke, I will read more into it.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [decarn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/decarn/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-migration-concerns/#post-2280914)
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