yugyug

thanks samboli! that worked perfectly, I am now stress-free ??

bump. seriously I can’t figure it out….

did you find out what the solution was….? I am having this problem also

ok, just a hunch, but could it be anything to do with mod rewrite in the .htaccess file?

well, thought maybe it was because I have a my domain setup up as an ‘add on domain’ hosted inside another domain with a subdomain redirection.. but I just tried adapting the url to the full subdomain url and that didn’t work either.

this is the third different technique I have tried to make this work….

hey thanks for the suggestion, but I tried that and I have the same problem…. I am beginning to wonder if it does not work for the same reason –

can I have a gold upgrade anyway? WP e-commerce is a great plugin.

oops missed it….. that will teach me to browse multiple windows at a time…..

latvian

thanks, yeah, I checked that before and I am running the new blogger and wordpress 2.8 so there should not be a problem.

But I figured out a workaround, but exporting a blogger xml file, then using this webpage to convert it to wordpress xml:
https://blogger2wordpress.appspot.com/

and using the Import>Wordpress function:

(but note that website did not work using safari, but did for firefox)

oh I should probably mention why I am doing this without any prior experience… well its just that this wordpress installation is a personal project not connected with the business at the top level domain – that was not moved but created anew on the new host by a developer I hired. But I don’t want to bother him with this, and its the weekend, so I thought I would try myself. And I didn’t attempt to contact my old host to help – its yahoo after all, they are no help with anything. I wish I had run the f##king wordpress backup before transferring the domain though!

Ok I guess I know a bit more about how to do this now, thank you for your comments whooami. (I didn’t realise at all that the mysql database contained data and also need to be transferred – at the beginning of this process I thought everything I needed was in the web folders)

Despite not having html access to the old site on yahoo, I managed to create a backup of its database using yahoo’s backup tool (I also have phpmyadmin installed there but that requires html access to use).

On my new host I have tried to import this backup using phpmyadmin but that returned a parsing error, and when I tried to restore it using the backup/restore tool, it was empty, no tables.

Just about had enough…! I think I will wait until the domain registration transfer completes and then point the name servers back to my old host, and put up with the interruption for the hour or so that takes.

an interesting if frustrating day…..

thanks again.

If I understand correctly, this is what I should do:

1. Clear out the wordpress files I already FTP uploaded to the folder on the new server
2. Make a new wordpress installation in that folder with the same name.
3. Copy the details you mention from wp-config.
4. Delete that installation, and upload the old one.
5. Edit the wp-config with those details.

Is that correct?

thanks for your response

I’m not actually trying to create a mySQL backup by FTP, but export a WP backup by FTP, which I guess is not possible…

from the link you provided:
“Note: If you are changing to a new server but same domain, all you need to do is edit wp-config.php and upload everything as it is to your new server. “

that’s what I want to do. But no idea how to do it.
I did create a new database on my new host at one stage, thinking I could just upload the wp-content directory, but that didn’t work. Sorry if I am unclear, I feel totally out of my depth here ??

I realise I can change the name servers back to my original host long enough export a backup, but that would bring my top level site down, not ideal. And the name servers are locked now for x number of days until the domain re-registers….