Moving my WordPress from the Dotster installed location

  • Hello all,

    I am a relative n00b to the World of WordPress and I am having some questions about how to move my files. I have a WordPress that I used the Dotster-provided installation to create. Now I want to upgrade to the newest version of WordPress and Dotster tells me that in order to do that I need to take all of my files from their hidden area and relocate them to a place where I can have all rights to the files.

    I have been through all the documentation about moving your WordPress files from one location to another but I am having a difficult time finding any info on how to move them from the Dotster-installed location to my own. Does anyone have any experience with that? Can anyone lead me to a place with some documentation on how to do that type of move and what files I will need to update?

    Thanks for all of your help!

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  • Try this.

    Thread Starter bhrycyk

    (@bhrycyk)

    Thanks batachnoid! After a quick call to Dotster they have given me access to my WordPress files.

    Now my confusion lies in how to move WordPress from this one deeply buried subdirectory to another. They had the files in some subdirectory buried in my server but in my WordPress general settings the WordPress address (URL) and Blog address (URL) both have mydomain.com/blog listed as their locations. These locations are actually fine because I want to keep them as that but that is not where they are actually located through Dotster.

    I’m having a hard time applying my situation to the “How to move your WordPress to a different directory” information supplied in the Codex.

    Hopefully this is making sense…thanks again.

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