This is another procedure of transferring a WordPress blog from one hosting company to another. It’s pretty similar to moving wordpress blog from webhosting with CPanel to Dreamhost dashboard.
Anyway, here’s the list.. please note though, that this is my list and my reference, I’m sorry for those who stumble to this blog looking of ways or procedure to transfer their wordpress blog from one webhost to another.. This is only my rough list to remind of the the way I did it.
- Download everything from your old webhost – including the your home directory (public_html or it depends to the webhosting company)
- Dont forget to download the latest backup of your WordPress database (sql file)
- Now, to the new webhost
- Make sure you already setup your domain/addone domain to your webshost.
- Create a new database
- Import your sql file via phpadmin
- Create new database user and give it access to the new database
- Upload you Publi_html backup (or you can install a separate wordpress installation.. either way, edit config.php)
- Edit wp-config.php to reflect your new webhost’s database and database user.
- you should be good to go.
A few gotchas..
- Make sure you have the correct theme to the new webhost if you didn’t reset it to the wordpress default when moving
- Double check your database Table Prefix!!
