Comments on: [Hacking WordPress]: How To Clone And Migrate Your WordPress Blog To New Server

By: Keir

Keir — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:34:10 +0000

Thnx, thats a good point. Will keep in mind.
My problem boiled down to something much stupider:
was giving ‘iis_user’ WRX permission rather than ‘i_user’… on the MS server…
Daft.
Solved.

By: Stephanie Benatar

Stephanie Benatar — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:10:39 +0000

Be careful to configure the sql file correctly…
They don’t mention this, but you also have to configure your uploads path, I couldn’t upload files because I hadn’t changed it.
Look for INSERT INTO `wp_options` VALUES (59, 0, ‘upload_path’,’ yourpath ‘,’yes’)
and modify it to your new uploading path

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By: Keir

Keir — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:31:34 +0000

Hi, great guide. It worded for us easy! However, we’re facing a issue I cant figure out.
After the export/import, the install seems to have partially lost control over the existing directory structure (wp-content). The permissions are set correctly; media assets which were present before the exp/imp can be removed/ new ones added; plugins and themes can be added and removed. However, themes, plugins or directories present prior to the cloning process, seem to be beyond the control of the server.
Specs:
iis7 (I’m pretty sure)
mysql (latest)
wp 2.8

Thanks for any help
Keir

By: Matteo

Matteo — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:44:53 +0000

Are you using a prefix to the tables? es: INSERT INTO `prefix_wp_options` VALUES

Hope this would help you.

By: Jonathan Gray

Jonathan Gray — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:47:35 +0000

Many thanks for this! Very useful indeed!

By: Damien

Damien — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:07:09 +0000

1) Log into your phpMyAdmin.
2) Locate the database for the current site
3) Click on the table wp_options
4) Locate the fields: siteurl and home
5) Change their value to the URL of the new site.
6) Save and exit.

By: Jun

Jun — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:40:11 +0000

Hi,

i got the same problem as you had. After that, i try to update the database as referenced on line:

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/10/01/how-to-move-wordpress-blog-to-new-domain-or-location/

however, it still doesnt make any change.

Did you solved the problem? anything new?

Good luck
Jun

By: Jun

Jun — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:34:45 +0000

I was trying to migrate my blog to a subfolder of a new domain(www.olddomain.com to http://www.newdomain.com/abc) and got the same problem as Antonella had. The main page was all right, however, lost all those links.

Can someone give some hink what i did wrong?

Thanks
Jun

By: Antonella

Antonella — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:12:53 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the tutorial. After I uploaded the site and database as described, I was able to get into the wp-admin and see the homepage of the site. However, I wasn’t able to see any other page, getting an error 404.

I did a global search and replace for the URL but that didn’t help either. Any idea if I’m missing a step?

Thanks,
Antonella

By: Rick van Vliet

Rick van Vliet — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:44:04 +0000

Thanks for a good tutorial.

By: Damien

Damien — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:17:15 +0000

If you are changing web host, perhaps you can ask them for help. Some web hosts help their client to migrate to the new server for free.

By: J loan

J loan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:30:54 +0000

For those of us with less time and technical experience, is there a fast and reliable 3rd party or company that can do migrations of entire site + wordpress?

By: Tom Harrison

Tom Harrison — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:00:13 +0000

I’m with Dave on this one; if we add comments where there are issues, the “incomplete” post turns into “a good start” with some good notes! So here’s mine.

Instead of updating the database manually to change the URL, you can change options in the wp-config.php file; there’s one for wp_siteurl and one for wp_home, documented here on the WordPress site. These don’t actually change the database values, but once the site is moved over, you can change them through the usual settings page (then take them out of wp_config.php).

By: dave

dave — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:52:25 +0000

Many thanks for this.

Some comments above indicate that a few points are missing or not very clearly explained, but I had no idea how to clone my site & with the article above I managed to clone & migrate my site to a new URL, so many thanks for a very informative post.

By: JJ Love

JJ Love — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:40:39 +0000

Good tutorial, but lacking some key points, and thence somewhat sloppy. Why even post an article like this if you aren’t going to follow up and answer questions? I don’t get it.

Key points left out by the hasty author:

1. You won’t see “INSERT INTO `wp_options` VALUES (1, 0, ’siteurl’” Instead you will see something like “INSERT INTO `wp_y6hww3_options` VALUES (1, 0, ‘http://www.yoursitename.com’”

2. There will be multiple references to your old domain in the SQL file. Just do a global search and replace.

3. In your wp-config file, the author generalizes and says “Change the database configuration in the wp-config file in the WordPress folder that you have downloaded” Change what? You need to change the user name and password to whatever your NEW database user name and password are AND the name of the database you created.

I will post a much better version of this tutorial on my site soon and report back.

Nice try here, but again, in the end it is incomplete

By: Eman Udik

Eman Udik — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:27:10 +0000

HORE!!! This tutorial is done!!
now i have a good blog, you can see http://www.areaofgames.wordpress.com
i cloned it from my suck friends http://www.radioactivemonkey.wordpress.com

By: Jay Medina

Jay Medina — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:29:27 +0000

Damien, thanks so much for this tutorial. It allowed me to migrate my Wordpress site in less than 10 minutes! Thanks for saving me all the hard work of trying to figure this out myself!

Best Regards,

-Jay

By: Russ Lipton

Russ Lipton — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:47:18 +0000

Won’t the guid values of the posts in the remote database need to be changed, or is this covered by your reply above that the URL on the address bar of the remote weblog is determined by the permalink?

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:00:43 +0000

Hi Damien

Great tutorial. I’m testing it now, but I did notice that there is a line:

INSERT INTO `wp_options` VALUES (60, 0, ‘upload_path’,

and that line contains the server path to my uploads folder.

Assuming I’m cloning the installation to another domain, won’t I need to change that to match the new server path?

Also I can see my URL in multiple additional places:

INSERT INTO `wp_options` VALUES (85, 0, ‘dashboard_widget_options’,

In 2 or 3 places regarding Google Blogsearch.

INSERT INTO `wp_options` VALUES (90,

that looks like it’s something to do with recent RSS feeds on the Dashboard?

INSERT INTO `wp_options` VALUES (100,

which look like my FTP settings

and

INSERT INTO `wp_options` VALUES (132, 0, ’sociable_conditionals’

(Something to do with the Sociable plugin?)

Wouldn’t these all have to be changed accordingly?

Cheers

Nick

P.S. If you email me at the address I’ve used to post this comment, I can email you a copy of the SQL dump file so you can see for yourself.