I have a wordpress website which is installed by Microsoft Webtrix on my computer A.
I have installed Microsoft Webmatrix on my computer B so that I can continue my work on computer B so that I can continue work on computer B.
I want to copy my full wordpress website (website content + database) from computer A to B.
I can not find a tutorial which teaches how to copy database from computer A to B.
I am totally new to creating web so please kindly help.
Thanks
Your best long term solution is to learn how to export WordPress sites from local to local development environments as well as local to live host.
Within your present set up simply copy all files from wp-content of the site and transfer them to your new set up.
Add a plugin to your original site such as WP Database Backup. This will allow you to dump the .sql (database) and keep a copy as a backup.
Over to the new set up (B computer). Create a new wordpress site.
Copy and paste the wp-content folder into the new site.
Now this is where you need to check with web matrix on your new set up. You'll need to make sure the wp-config.php file has the correct settings such as db name and password user etc.
Finally upload the backup db .sql file via the db plugin mentioned in step 2.
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I built a WordPress website in localhost MAMP. Upon completing the site, I wanted to upload it to the actual hosting site using FTP. I uploaded all the content but DB. I used a WordPress plugin called 'WP Migrate' to export the database. Then I uploaded exported file to phpMyAdmin.
But the site did not work after uploading onto my site using FTP. I then begin to work again locally, using my local host. There is a feature to find & replace DB values in 'WP Migrate'. I replaced existing local site name with actual web site name. This stopped working my local website also.
I am not trying to figure the live site, but figure the local host site right now, that way I can perform a transfer. I believe it has to do with the DB somehow but not sure where or how to edit it.
Basically it is the same issue that this person is having as well, but the question wasn't answered: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/undo-find-replace/
Nathan Rojas
If it's after you updated your site name, you can easily change it back by logging into the myPhpAdmin of your local site and choosing the MySQL database you are using. under the wp_options table, you'll see a field called siteurl and home. Update those fields to what you had prior and it'll come back. ;)
I have cPanel access on two different servers and would like to transfer from one server to another. The original size of the account on the first server is close to 15GB.
Currently, the only two ways I can think of are:
Backup using cPanel then Restore on the second server. But this process times out. I get "Failed - Network error" error
Use FTP App like Filezilla to login and transfer files from that. I haven't tested this but I think it first downloads the files on my local machine (temp folder) then uploads them to the second server.
My problem with option 2 is that this means I will end up using 30GB of data transfer if it actually does that.
What is the best way to transfer from server to server using cPanel?
I have limited knowledge on this. I will suggest you some tips.
1.Backup using cPanel then Restore on the second server. But this process times out. I get "Failed - Network error" error
The backup creation is failed due to the high size of account. So that reason that way is not possible.
Use FTP App like Filezilla to login and transfer files from that. I haven't tested this but I think it first downloads the files on my local machine (temp folder) then uploads them to the second server.
You can download the whole content to your PC or download one folder by folder like first home, mail, and etc and upload to new cpanel account using ftp
Could you please open a support ticket to your hosting provider they will help you create from server backend using /script/pkgacct.
Thank you.
I've successfully created site using Umbraco now its time to upload it on hosting server..
i've searched and got one paid product for the same..and i dont want to use it.
Has any body tried developing Umbraco site on local and then uploading it on server?
If yes then please help me doing that.
First I run the umbraco install from a local IIS website. Then I setup my visual studio solution for that website (and my souce control). Then I work, until I reach a beta version, then I go through this process for deploying:
Ftp over to the remove website and copy the whole website (I actually use Beyond compare).
Connect to my local database with management studio and create a .bak file.
Upload the .bak file to the database server.
Restore that database
Review connection strings in web.config
Then I'm pretty much done.
Once I'm "live" and have content I don't want to lose, when I want to work on the website, I bring back the live database through a .bak file, then I make my changes. They often include DB changes since the schema is basically in the database. I note all the operations I do. Once my changes are ready I manually replicate the changes on the live site as I update the files.
This is very painfull but I tried solutions like courrier and other things like that and they are not reliable enough for production I find. Manually is the only risk free way I see for the moment.
Hope this helps.
Yes, that happens all the time. Use FTP to copy your local installation to your webserver, modify the web.config to point to the correct database and your website should be up-and-running.
I'm sure there are more elegant solutions with less clicks but here's how I do it on azure websites with sql, not sure what hosting/db you're using:
1) Create an empty db on azure with the same login and user as my local db.
2) Create an empty site on azure connected to my db.
3) Download the publishing profile.
4) Upload the db the first time with Sql Azure Migration Wizard.
5) Import the publishing profile into and upload the site with WebMatrix.
6) Thereafter I deploy the site and db with WebMatrix.
WebMatrix uses WebDeploy or FTP, you can use WebDeploy through IIS if you like, and FTP.
I've got a DotNetNuke system (v 5.6) that's hosting several different portals, and I'd like to move one of them to another hosting provider. What's the easiest way to do this?
Every web site I find that claims to explain how to move a DotNetNuke site essentially says "Copy the entire database over to the new system." That's great if you've only got one portal in the database, but I've got a dozen of them. I only want to move one portal, not all of them.
Exporting the site to a .template is another popular suggestion. This exports the structure of the site (all the tab definitions, for example), but it doesn't include any of the actual HTML content. As such, that's essentially worthless.
There must be a reasonable way to do this short of trying to strip one individual portals data out of every single DNN table. Right?
When you export a site template, you can include the content of the site, as well (for the modules that support portability, which includes the standard HTML module). This is how the default site template has all of its content. When you do this, there will be a .template.resources file that you'll need, as well as the .template file.
The other option is to do a full backup and restore, and then remove the other sites once you've restored. If you have significant content in a module that doesn't support portability, I think this will be your best bet.
FYI, I did find a solution from someone over on the DotNetNuke forums.
Create a 2nd version of that install, then delete all the other
portals. Move the install with the one portal. We've done this several
times with installs with lots of portals and it works just fine. Yeah
there's still some noise left in the db, but it's a quick and
effective way of doing things.
Edit note that this will give you an install with 1 portal. You can't detach a portal from one install and reattach it to an existing
install (well, you can, but basically you have to export the portal as
a template and that isn't 100%)
This is the approach I took, and sure enough, it works.
In a nutshell:
Mirror the files for the web site to another server.
Mirror the DNN database to another server.
Log in a Host on the new setup and delete all the portals but the one you want to migrate.
Delete any module definitions that are not in use by the remaining portal.
Open up your favorite SQL tool and delete any entries in the Users and UserProfile tables that no longer have a matching row in the UserPortals table. DNN does not remove these by default, which is frustrating.
Hop in to Windows Explorer and delete all of the Portal folders you no longer need (ie: /Portal/1, /Portal/2, etc.)
Back up the database using Enterprise Manager to create a .bak file
Make a .zip of the entire DNN installation folder.
You now have a .bak that contains the database and a .zip that contains the files. Send those off to the new hosting company, and you should be all set. Just make sure to update your web.config to set the connection string properly to point to the new database server at the new hosting company.
It's just that easy. ;)
I have a web site on the cpanel(whm), I want to backup whole site and transfer it to another stand-alone server of my own, is that feasible? how to do it?
If the new server doesn't have cPanel I don't think there is a method of recreating automatically the account, so just try to run /scripts/pkgacct user(if you have root on cPanel server) or just use cPanel -> Backups -> Download or generate a full website backup.
Copy archive to the new server and start to manually recreate account, databases, etc.
Archive contain all the informations you need like dnszones, mysql databases, homedir.tar(all the files from /home/user), etc.
Yes! its easy!
Login to WHM
On the left there is Search box type Backup and click on Backup Configuration (OR go to Backup >> Backup Configuration)
Change Backup Status to enable
Check the options as per your requirement & at the end of page find Additional Destinations there might be drop down OR check box for FTP server click on that
FTP details of another server where you want to store all of your backups.
Hope it helps!