Moving WP site from one server to another on same host & domain

  • Resolved nobleone

    (@nobleone)


    9 years, 6 months ago

    We recently moved from one server to another within our host (both servers are on GoDaddy). The old server had the wordpress site installed as a subdomain:

    public_html/blog/all WP files

    When we moved to the new server, we wanted the blog to now be the primary domain. In order to do this, tech support told us we had to keep all the blog files on the root directory:

    public_html/all WP files

    I have exported and backed up locally all the wp files and the database.sql from the old server. Because this site is still on the same host with the same URL, I assumed no edits would be necessary and that we would simply copy the files to the new directory and import the database. Is this correct or am I missing a vital step?

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  • Correct, but you will need to update the urls int the database from site.com/blog to site.com, otherwise all the links will still point to site.com/blog.

    I assumed no edits would be necessary and that we would simply copy the files to the new directory and import the database.

    You can do that if the site stays in the same folder or directory; you can’t do that if you’re changing diretories or domains. See Moving WordPress ? WordPress Codex and WordPress Serialized PHP Search Replace Tool

    Thread Starter nobleone

    (@nobleone)

    I have started the transfer process and things looked okay as I can see the site, but there are some plugin errors on the top of the page:

    https://www.aeonsatori.com

    Also, the links are not working. I wasn’t sure if I had used permalinks when setting up the site originally, but I guess this solidifies it as a yes?

    Thanks Creatrix and Songdogtech for the links, I will be studying these for a while to try and solve this on my own. If there is a simple error that anyone would like to chime in with some help, it would be appreciated.

    Thanks all!

    Thread Starter nobleone

    (@nobleone)

    With the help of GoDaddy’s very helpful support, they found that the issue was completely the fault of the “Super Cache” plugin. The site was attempting to load from the cache files on the old server, so we were never able to access the site from the server directly.

    So, be sure to disable WP cache plugins prior to transferring your site to a new server. Seems so obvious now ??

    Thanks everyone for the help

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