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I think I got it, thanks
existing website is http://www.carfindersmd.com
I uploaded it to http://www.frederickmdtestbed.comam pretty sure when the backup “wakes up” and finds itself living on carfindersmd.com (but on a new webhost) everything will work fine
Oh, and this part of your response:
” If the URL of the target server is different it won’t work properly…”other then editing the path in wp-config.php to include the info for the new server and the path to the mysql database is there anything else I’d have to do?
I mean does the use of this particular plugin require any steps other then editing the path inside the wp-config.php file?
Thanks for the quick reply
you said:
“You’ll need to manually upload the Filesystem and then import the Database on the target server“OK, i already FTPd down the wp-content directory from the originating host and FTP:d up that directory to the target host.
so I’m not concerned with restoring the file system
How am I to restore the mysql database?
am I to
A) unzip the downloaded backup
B) hunt for only the .sql file
C) upload using myphpadmin?is it necessary to use phpmyadmin to delete tables in order to do a restore?
So… the prevailing opinion is to Uncheck “Strip the category base (usually /category/) from the category URL.”
I’m assuming there is a valid SEO reason to strip the category, it would appear that the “cure” to that SEO problem is worse than the “ailment”?
if the harm via 404 errors from broken links (broken links that Google Webmaster Tools observes while spidering our site) is worse than leaving the /category/ in
… should we just omit that step until Yoast comes up with a fix?From what I’ve been reading re: internal site structure there is a valid “SEO Reason” to have the /category/ stripped out
I learned that from Steve Widerman’s excellent, albeit somewhat dated tutorial on how to configure this Yoast SEO Plug in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLBpmeXjse4
I am also having similar trouble in that I have categorizes displayed in breadcrumbs but when a user (or Googlebot) actually clicks on those categories they get a 404
I’m suspecting that the “Strip the category base (usually /category/) from the category URL.” section located in Permalinks (assuming you’re using the most current version of the plug in)
On another thread, it was suggested that to get the plug in to actually reflect the changes we made (based on the suggestions the plug in told us we need) to go to Settings => Permalinks (WP permalinks, not Yoast SEO permalinks) and change what ever value we have currently to any value other than the one it was set to…
save changes
hope doing so forces the plug in to see“Oh, you DID put the target keyword phrase in the title, in the heading etc”
After we see that the plug in “sees” what we just did,
go back to Settings => Permalinks and change it back to where it wasHope that helps