Moving blog to new server w.o access to old blog

  • I just completed moving an entire site (patiannestevenson.com), which included a blog (patiannestevenson.com/blog). I read that if the domain name is staying the same all I need to do is to update the wp-config files (and have done this successfully on another blog), but this time I’m getting an “error connecting to database” message. I think one of the problems might be that this new hosting server has the mysql files on a different server (the tech help instructed me to change the “localhost” setting within the wp-config to “mysql-databasename.domainname”.

    I’m trying to understand documentation I’m reading on how to download the database from the old server so that I can upload it to the new, but am having trouble understanding how to do this. Any help will be appreciated!

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  • cat get your tongue?

    hahha nope! she(??) finished up as I was typing my last reply. ??

    all well’s that ends well. right?

    Im having similar problems but Im lost:

    So basically this started because we redirected our website to a new site without changing the wordpress from being on a directory of that site to a subdomain first. This basically lost access to our wordpress blog. I still have all the data and the database is still on my mySQL and has not been changed. My next step to attempt to solve this was to reinstall the blog/wordpress onto the subdomain name and I kept the database the same and just reconnected it to the new installation. I also put all the old uploads into my wp-content and copied the themes also. Problem is that the old comments/posts/uploads are not showing up. Is there another file I need to copy over from the old blog? or some other way? I saw the import/export funtion but the problem is I dont have a wp export file to import even though I have all the data :0/

    Jasha

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