transferring from dev site to live on same server

  • Hello,

    I have read numerous tutorials on transferring sites from one server to another or from localhost to live, but I think that my situation is different and do not want to screw it up (last time it took a long time to transfer a site).

    I have a live website https://www.tillemont.com and a dev site dev.tillemont.com
    both on are on the same server with the same DB user however with different SQL databases.

    From what I read, I can simply FTP my new site onto my public_html folder, then log into my phpmyadmin and change the necessary fields in “wp_options” tables. I should also use the velvet blues update plugin to change all the urls. But honestly, that seems a little to simple to me and I am afraid I’ll end up screwing it up, can someone let me know if I am on the right track?

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  • As far as I know, changing the Home and SiteURL links from the wp_options table should do it. Also, if you are using permalinks on your dev site, it’s worth checking your .htaccess file to make sure it has the updated links. Those are the first things I checked when moving websites from one server to another and it worked fine for me. Good luck!

    Thread Starter grudz

    (@grudz)

    hi,

    that sort of worked….the site is up and running (thank you for your reply) but i do see that some of the images are referring back to my dev folder, since I kept it in the FTP it works, but do I have to do a Search and Replace in my MySQL to remove all the dev.tillemont.com and put it to tillemont.com?

    No problem ??

    You can try to check from the wordpress dashboard, go to Settings> Media and manually type the full URL. I think there is also an upload or upload url table from the database you can update as well.

    Thread Starter grudz

    (@grudz)

    i am sorry but I do not understand where i have to type in the url, i went to Settings> Media and it just gave me thumbnail information

    If that is not available, try manually updating the upload/upload URL links from the wp_options table in the database.

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