How to Successfully Transfer wordpress website to a new domain and web hosting

How to Successfully Transfer wordpress website to a new domain and web hosting.


To transfer to a new domain and web hosting you need to first, copy the entire

wordpress website and here is how to do this.

If the wordpress website is at the root directory /

select all of the files and folders, the compress it and name the directory
your website name for tracking down what the site is about. It could be

chatwordpress.zip download this to your pc.

If it's in a sub folder www.mysite.com/wordpress then just right click on that

folder, then compress it and download it to pc.


Next go to your phpmyadmin witch is in your cpanel, pick the database that setup

this website, go to export at the top menu.

Export Method; click on

Custom - display all possible options



Format; select sql


Click go!


sql file download pops up with

mydata_wp.sql


download it to your pc, choose save file so you know where to download it at,

lets download it to the desktop.






Now we have saved all our wordpress website by downloading the whole website to

our pc, and we then saved our sql file, now its time to put this on our new

hosting and new domain.




Let's login to the new domain cpanel, install wordpress through cpanel.


Now lets go to the files we have saved of wordpress, we need to take out the

wp-config.php


put it somewhere as a backup, but you wont need this in the new site



Zip up the website again, and then upload it to the new host, extract it and now

go to phpmyadmin, pick the wordpress database, once inside that database, select

all the database entries and drop/delete them.

Now Let's go to import and import that wordpress sql file in to this database


Browse your computer option, choose a file button, insert the sql file.

Character set of the file; select utf-8


format; select sql



format specific options; sql compatibility mode; leave blank

check this box Do not use auto_increment for zero values

then click go!


sql file is now imported


That's it!

Now you have your orginal wordpress website!



All done!


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