Wordpress migration
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Hi i wonder if anyone can help.
I have migrated my site to a new host, with a temp domain name i.e., http://www.test1.com
The current site is still live on another host with the domain name http://www.perfecttest.com
The temp site is now ready to do live. but we want to use the domain perfecttest.com
a. What is the process to move the domain to the new host and to change the test1.com to be perfecttest.com.
I kneo that we need to change the domain perfecttest.com nameserver to point to the new host but i am sure there must be more that need to be done inorder to not have issues.
Your help will be grateful
T
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Thank Brabants,
So I think i sorted it.
1 changed the nameserver,
2 Changed the wordpress general settings to the new domain.. and all works great..phew
Thanks Guys MOZ Community Rocks
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I had to do the same stuff with a lot of sites when I moved from cheap *ss hosting to a hosting provider located here in Belgium with all of my client sites and this is what I did:
- Add the domain to your new hosting provider and set up a hosting account for this domain. The site won't be live under this domain name, but contact your hosting provider to check where you can access the site and FTP with a temporary link.
- install WP, theme & plugins- export content on the live site using the Wordpress export, if possible export theme settings as well
- import the content on the new wordpress install you did on the new hosting provider
- change domain name settings. You can change the nameservers, but if that's not an option you can always add an A-record to make sure traffic is going to new server.
I'm aware that it's time consuming, but you don't have to get your hands dirty on PHPMyAdmin and this way the sites had zero downtime.
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Hi guys thank you for your messages.
The migration has been done, the 301 redirects has been done (because half of the site was built in Django, so we had to manually move the content to wordpress.
So the site is running lovely but on the temp domain.
I hope there is a method where we can change the url to the new domain or am i just been silly?
T
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Hi there
Just piggy backing on SMG here - if anything about the site is changing during this migration (URLs, structure, content, etc), make sure you go through this guide to make sure your bases are covered.
Hope this helps a bit as well - good luck!
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Hi,
You need to make an account for http://www.perfecttest.com on your new server
Set that up with your new wordpress, ensuring your wordpress URL in the settings is http://www.perfecttest.com
Then you need to point your nameservers yes.Here's a comprehensive looking walkthrough from the wordpress forums
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-a-wordpress-site-between-hostingKind Regards and good luck!
Jimmy
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