How to Move your WordPress Blog

This tuto­r­ial shows step by step how to move your blog and domain to a new host.

1. Use your FTP util­ity and down­load your blog root folder with all the files and sub fold­ers to your desktop.
2. Go to your cPanel and from there to php­MyAd­min and Export your Data­base (tar.gz) to your desktop.

1. Either you cre­ate a new host­ing account or you cre­ate an ‘add on domain’ on an exist­ing host­ing account. Name the folder ‘yourdomain.com’, whereas ‘your­do­main’ is the name of the domain you move.
2. Cre­ate a data­base, ide­ally with same name, user-name and pass (if you change any of these, you will have to mod­ify the cor­re­spond­ing entries in ‘wp-config.php’).
3. Go to php­MyAd­min on new host and import your database.
4. Upload the con­tent of your blog root folder to the new host using your FTP utility.
5. Make sure your per­mis­sion set­tings are cor­rect: make the uploads folder and sub-folders writable (777) as well as cache fold­ers (even­tu­ally under wp-content).
6. Check your wp-config.php file and make sure the Data­base name, user and pass are correct.

Test your blog: access using : http://IP-Address/~username/addon-domain/

1. Go to your domain host­ing account, and edit DNS set­tings: point your domain to the new host enter­ing the new host’s DNS.
2. Wait for the DNS to prop­a­gate and start blogging.

Just use the com­ment form here below for ques­tions you may have.

We will charge $20 per blog to move. So if you have a domain with 10 add-on domains or sub-folders with each a WP blog in it, it will be $220. Also for large set-ups with DB beyond 500 MB and a folder struc­ture beyond 1 GB, please ask for a quote.

PS: Mov­ing your Word­Press Blog to a new domain is another story. Please ask for a tuto­r­ial and or a quote.

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