Moving to new host with new temp URL

  • Hi,

    I am hoping to move my WordPress website, to a new host, with a new (temporary) domain. I am wondering how I can modify the back up to allow for this new domain, without changing it in wordpress settings as I do not want the current website to experience downtime. It is a large 5gb website, so I really don’t want to change URL settings, download and change back as this could cause serious disruptions.

    Also, the home directory with the new host is named differently, i.e home/abcdefg8 instead of home/abcdefgh – I am assuming this will cause issues?

    Any help or advice would be appreciated, I am struggling!

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  • To get your site running, you only need to change two values in the wp_options database table: “site_url” and “home”. Make those changes via phpMyAdmin or some similar application, so you are not having to deal with a large sql file. Most hosts will have some kind of database tool in their control panels.

    That will get your site functioning under the temporary domain at least. What will not work are any hard-coded full URLs within your content, but this will be enough to test that the most important elements are functional before cutting the domain over.
    Once confirmed, change those values back, then change the DNS on the domain.

    The home directory path change should not pose a problem.

    Thread Starter josh333

    (@josh333)

    Hi Neil,

    Thanks for the advice. So should I be restoring the SQL database from the old host to the new host, then modifying tables? As I have restored the old SQL database, changed those two values to the new url (ip address/home/abcdefg)

    I still get a 404 error when trying to access. Permissions are mostly 755. Should I be trying to access /home/abcdefg or something else?

    Any further help would be great!!

    Thanks,
    Josh

    Change those values to just the IP address, ignore the “/home/abcdefg” path as that’s just the internal path on the server, not the public URL.

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