Comments on: Migrate Wordpress to a new Server or Directory

By: Onno marsman

Onno marsman — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:34:45 +0000

If you are interested in this post, you might also want to take a look at the ezMigrate plugin for Wordpress:
http://techblog.triptic.nl/ezmigrate-plugin-for-wordpress/

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:57:16 +0000

Hey Trevor,

Nope this works for me.

Make sure that any other plugins you have installed don’t have a reference to the old URL. Search the whole database.
Clear your Cache

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:03:29 +0000

I tried migrating my blog to a new server by copying all directories and the database over. I got the blog running but when I click on an article it give a 404 error. The domain is exactly the same. I just flipped DNS. Are there any database queries that need to be run to make something happen that I’m unaware of?

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:15:20 +0000

@Andy, in your favorite Database Administration tool such as phpMyAdmin.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:01:20 +0000

sorry, but where do i have to put these commands?

thanks for your help

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:50:22 +0000

@Lydia, Your welcome! I’m happy it helped you!

By: Lydia

Lydia — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:18:17 +0000

Really great !
These three command lines is all you need to have your database running again.

In all the WP migration advices I found, no ones talks about the fact that, in posts everywhere URLs have to be changed ! Plus don’t try to change it by hand, it will take forever.
I also tried to dump the tables, open the scripts and find and replace “old url” by “new url”, but somehow there was always something messing up.

So thanks for these simple 3 sql commands that go a long way…

Lydia

By: Joe Brunno

Joe Brunno — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:17:10 +0000

This worked perfectly! Thank you so much!