I found this brilliantly simple article on the WordPress site: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrate-wordpress-to-another-server
Ok yall. I have been trying to migrate my wordpress website over to another
server for several hours now and finally figured everything out!
Here are the steps I took:
1. Copy the home directory over to the new server.
2. Create a new database and add a user to that database.
3. Add the new database settings to the wp-config.php file.
4. Export your database from the old server using phpMyAdmin to your local
hard drive.
5. Open/Edit the database file using WordPad! Update the url paths
throughout the entire file to match the new directory paths of the new
server in case they have changed. In WordPad, Go to Edit, Replace. This will
open up a search and replace window. In my case I had to update the file
path from home/gillette/public_html/gillettewyomingblog to
home/gwblog/public_html. Once you update all the file paths, just save the
file.
6. Now import the file to the new server using phpMyAdmin.
7. This is where I got hung up. I got everything working ok up to this
point. When I went to my website, the main page loaded just fine and I could
see all my recent posts. But when I would click on ANY post, category or
link to another section in my blog I would get a blank page!!!
So I finally figured out that you have to go to your WordPress Admin, Options,
Permalinks, then make sure your Common Options are still set to the way you
had them before on the other server and just hit Update Permalink Structure
and WaLa! Everything is now working properly on my blog and all the links
work. Hallelujah!
I hope this helps someone. It took me several hours to get “my method” to
work. There was no need to download the posts to any xml files or anything
like that.
Here’s my blog: Gillette Wyoming Blog
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