WordPress Blog – Moved to New Host

by John - Published: November 22nd, 2008

Because my old host seemed to be going very slow very often, I bit the bullet and decided to try move this WordPress based blog to another host I have – this one :-)

There were several steps needed… I found a clear description of these steps with a Google Search.

I followed the steps but had no success at first.

Problem was, that there were differing versions of WordPress, MySQL and PHP on the old and new host.

So, after 3 hours trying to debug log files and PHP and MySQL, I dropped the idea of doing it as per the list I had found online.

I ended up getting it done like this:

  1. Install a new WordPress blog on the new host using Fantastico
  2. Edit the sql I had retrieved from the old host so that all links etc were pointing to the new host/subdir
  3. Jumped into PHPMyAdmin via my cPanel and ran the several INSERT statements covering posts and categories and comments. (I still have a little cleanup to work on here)

Now it all seems up and running.

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John Griffiths

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