3 step to migrate a site. my site is down now

  • I created a new site on localhost. It works beautifully. the old website https://www.whmcn.com works fine as well. I need to migrate the new site into whmcn.com to replace all the content.

    then I watched “How to MANUALLY Migrate Your WordPress Site” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wROa37k_RQA&t=1009s follow the 3 steps, but I fail. this is what I did.

    first, I used “8UFTP” software Connect with FTP serve transfer WP-content folder from C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress to replace the public_html/ wp-content.

    Secondly, I keep the wp-config.php of https://www.whmcn.com the same with the caution of prefix setting to make sure it matches the head character of database e.g “wp_”

    Last I renew the database file with “wan_hui_s_new_website.sql” and change the siteurl and home in wp_option. I thought it should be ok now. but it is not

    https://www.whmcn.com displayed HTTP error 500
    there are two accounts to manage the two websites. for localhost, I believe the username is root and password is empty. after migrate, I suppose the whmcn.com’s WordPress account is managing the new website, that is why I keep the wp-config.php the same.

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  • Thread Starter pier2001

    (@pier2001)

    @joyously I have update PHP to 7.2 NOW, It works. but I couldn’t update to 7.3 Which is latest. I couldn’t find the reason as I have check all the version of my plugin is the latest version. I guess I have to accept the reality from now. what do you think?

    If it’s working, great!
    You might have some plugin or theme that is not compatible with PHP 7.3. By the time you need to upgrade again, you will have better plugins to choose from.

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