Trying to Move WordPress site from one provider to GoDaddy

  • i’m doing something wrong but not sure where to go from here. I am totally unfamiliar with WordPress and basically i am trying to move the site from 1 provider to GoDaddy, i backed up the Database and site via phpadmin, installed wordpress on the GoDaddy site. Tested the base site and saw the generic start page. Then tried to import the exported database through phpadmin and it is crashing. My plan was to import the database and then the site and adjust the wp-config.php file and hopefully that would work. below is the error i get during the import process:
    Error
    SQL query:

    <!DOCTYPE html> <html xmlns=”https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&#8221; xml:lang=”en” lang=”en” dir=”ltr”> <head> <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ /> <link rel=”icon” href=”./favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon” /> <link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”./favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon” /> <title>phpMyAdmin</title> <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”phpmyadmin.css.php?server=1&token=4264a35f8523d16d0ce64a0b2eef6b21&js_frame=right&nocache=5483040301″ /> <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”print.css” media=”print” /> <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”./themes/pmahomme/jquery/jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.css” /> <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,nofollow” /> <script src=”./js/cross_framing_protection.js?ts=1365422810″ type=”text/javascript”></script> <script src=”./js/jquery/jquery-1.6.2.js?ts=1365422810″ type=”text/javascript”></script> <script src=”./js/jquery/jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.js?ts=1365422810″ ty[…]

    MySQL said:

    #1064 – You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘<!DOCTYPE html>
    <html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&quot; xml:lang="en" lang="e’ at line 1

    any help would be greatly appreciated, i have way too many non billable hours in this project.

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  • you should do this via ftp….download you files and data base…uploade back to godady via ftp …

    The file you tried to upload to PHPMyAdmin is not a SQL-file, so it failed.

    I hope you alreay found this nice resource: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress

    Jeroen

    Thread Starter bretlinton

    (@bretlinton)

    Joroen, thank you, i did see that article and thought i followed it to a t. But not sure what happened. On the export it (the article) had me change a setting from the default settings and i exported it as a SQL file.
    i’m wondering if i even need it as there are no blogs or comments currently on this site.

    If you’re moving an empty website, I’d recommend you to set up a fresh copy of WordPress at your new webhoster.

    Thread Starter bretlinton

    (@bretlinton)

    Sorry about that Jeroen, question, is moving the site (without blogs or comments) as easy as just uploading a back up copy to the new server that has wordpress installed? or are there files on the new server that i don’t want to overwrite? When I try to push the files up I am getting an Access Denied. Is that because i’m trying to push them using IE FTP, should I try a traditional client like filezilla?

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