How-to move wordpress to new server

This is just a personal guide for my self as my reference in the future. But, if you find this guide useful to you, I am glad to hear it. If you need official and complete guide, you can refer to this page: Moving WordPress.

In this case, I want to move my wordpress from the old server to a new one with the same domain. I registered this domain along together with hosting service. Now, I need to move the hosting to a new server. Only move hosting, without transferring the domain name. In other side, I’ve registered another hosting account in new server.
Ok, here are the simple things to do:

1. Edit the Name Server of your domain in your old hosting and point it to the Name Server of new hosting.
(change nsX.oldserver.com to nsX.newserver.com where X = number)

2. Login to cPanel account in new server (if already registered), go to addon domain, and add your new domain name.

3. While it takes little times (a few minutes – few hours), backup your files and database from the old server.

4. Login to cPanel in old server, go to file manager, select all files and compress it to available file format (.zip/.tar.gz/.bz2). Download and save it to your harddrive.

5. Go to phpMyAdmin and backup the database of your wordpress blog. Download and save it to your harddrive.

6. Then, login to cPanel account in new server, go to mySQL database, create a new database and user for your wordpress blog.

7. Upload and import the downloaded database from old server to the new database that you just created.

8. Upload and extract the downloaded files from old server to the root directory of new domain.

9. Edit wp-config.php and put your new database and user.

10. Wait until your new domain fully propagated and your DNS updated.

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  1. Aianamie
    November 24, 2009 at 08:22 #

    @ uchan : fantastico —> yang kemaren gw cari buat bahan uas ;)) *berhubung gw bukan wordpresser* jadi cukup kelimpungan :P

  2. Uchan
    November 24, 2009 at 12:12 #

    Kalo postingan belum banyak, n settingan plugin ga spesial, saya biasa cuma make tools > eksport. Di hostingan baru tinggal install WP baru via fantastico (inet dudul, ga kuat upload), import hasil export dari blog lama.

    • Ryan Isra
      November 24, 2009 at 05:15 #

      Iya sih, kalo gak modif2 template atow default semua sih tinggal export aja.
      Tapi ini udah gak perawan lagi template nya… wkakakakakakak :))

  3. Konstantin Boyko
    December 23, 2009 at 02:15 #

    Please check this article out: http://justcoded.com/article/wordpress-tips-movin…

    It can be helpful for the same task

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