UpdraftPlus – Migration question

  • Resolved eclerkin

    (@eclerkin)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    I read your “How do I migrate to a new site…” document and it seems simple enough but I have a question. Once I upload my development [localhost] backup files to the existing website under the wp-content/updraft folder and use the migration tool to “Restore” everything, will it update my wp-config.php file with the restored MySQL database during the search-and-replace old/new site URL’s or is that a manual process? Do you have a recommended plugin to clean out the existing site before the Restore? Thanks.

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  • Plugin Author David Anderson

    (@davidanderson)

    Hi,

    The Migrator add-on will automatically search/replace URLs for you.

    Do you have a recommended plugin to clean out the existing site before the Restore?

    What kind of cleaning? (Though, the answer is probably “I don’t” – I’m not particularly familiar with those plugins).

    David

    Thread Starter eclerkin

    (@eclerkin)

    Delete Posts/Pages/prior theme settings/options in database.

    My question about wp-config.php was incomplete. Considering that I am now migrating my development MySQL posts/pages/plugins/database to the destination site, does Updraft Migrator modify wp-config.php with the migrated database name/password or is that a manual process? Do I need to include wp-config.php in my FULL backup job?

    Plugin Author David Anderson

    (@davidanderson)

    Hi,

    You don’t need to think about wp-config.php at all. wp-config.php doesn’t need to be touched on the destination site for UD to import the chosen backup set into the database of the WP install that it’s running on.

    David

    Thread Starter eclerkin

    (@eclerkin)

    FYI – I just performed my first UpdraftPlus Migration from localhost to https://sloworkforce.com. The only hiccup I had was the child theme was backed up/restored as well and WP could not resolve a plugin reference in the child theme (all of the plugins were deactivated/deleted before Restore). Once I deleted the child theme, the 500 site error went away and I was able to then log in.

    [28-Dec-2015 17:54:31 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Class ‘SimpleCalendar\Abstracts\Feed’ not found in /xxx/yyy/zzz/sloworkforce.com/wp-content/themes/fortuna-child/wp-content/plugins/google-calendar-events/includes/feeds/google.php on line 26

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