Move a Wordpress Website Manually: Difference between revisions

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Moving a Wordpress Website to another server consists of the following several steps

* Make a copy of the Database: Using phpMyAdmin, Select the database in the left pane, Export Tab, "Simple" Radio Button, Go Button, save it to a file, done.

*Make a copy of the Database: Using phpMyAdmin, Select the database in the left pane, Export Tab, "Simple" Radio Button, Go Button, save it to a file, done.

* Make a copy of the Website Files: tar -cvzf /WhatEverDestinationFileName.tar.gz /WhatEverPathToSource/* (De-Compress: gunzip WhatEverFileName.tar.gz, tar xf WhatEverFileName.tar)

*Make a copy of the Website Files: tar -cvzf /WhatEverDestinationFileName.tar.gz /WhatEverPathToSource/* (De-Compress: gunzip WhatEverFileName.tar.gz, tar xf WhatEverFileName.tar)

* Move or copy the saved database and website files to another server: rsync -v WhatEverFileName UserName@URLorIPAddress:/WhatEverPath

*Move or copy the saved database and website files to another server: rsync -vP WhatEverFileName UserName@URLorIPAddress:/WhatEverPath (rsync -vP switch is "verbose" and "progress meter")

* Change DNS Settings

*Check or Correct Permissions and Ownership

**chown -R apache:apache WhatEverDirectoryName

**find WhatEverFolderName -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

**find WhatEverFolderName -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

*If using Let's Encrypt SSL Certificates, move Certificates to the new server: /etc/letsencrypt/archive, live, renewal (there are symbolic links in the live directory): rsync -avzP /etc/letsencrypt/archive/ UserName@URLorIPAdddress:/etc/letsencrypt/archive/ (repeat for each directory, the "a" switch will preserve symbolic links, find . -type l -ls will display the symbolic links)

*Change DNS Settings

All of the above assumes the new server has the same services running like Apache, PHP, MariaDB / mySQL, etc.

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 Moving a Wordpress Website to another server consists of the following several steps
-* Make a copy of the Database: Using phpMyAdmin, Select the database in the left pane, Export Tab, "Simple" Radio Button, Go Button, save it to a file, done.
+*Make a copy of the Database: Using phpMyAdmin, Select the database in the left pane, Export Tab, "Simple" Radio Button, Go Button, save it to a file, done.
-* Make a copy of the Website Files: tar -cvzf /WhatEverDestinationFileName.tar.gz /WhatEverPathToSource/* (De-Compress: gunzip WhatEverFileName.tar.gz, tar xf WhatEverFileName.tar)
+*Make a copy of the Website Files: tar -cvzf /WhatEverDestinationFileName.tar.gz /WhatEverPathToSource/* (De-Compress: gunzip WhatEverFileName.tar.gz, tar xf WhatEverFileName.tar)
-* Move or copy the saved database and website files to another server: rsync -v WhatEverFileName UserName@URLorIPAddress:/WhatEverPath
+*Move or copy the saved database and website files to another server: rsync -vP WhatEverFileName UserName@URLorIPAddress:/WhatEverPath (rsync -vP switch is "verbose" and "progress meter")
-* Change DNS Settings
+*Check or Correct Permissions and Ownership
+**chown -R apache:apache WhatEverDirectoryName
+**find WhatEverFolderName -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
+**find WhatEverFolderName -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
+*If using Let's Encrypt SSL Certificates, move Certificates to the new server: /etc/letsencrypt/archive, live, renewal (there are symbolic links in the live directory): rsync -avzP /etc/letsencrypt/archive/ UserName@URLorIPAdddress:/etc/letsencrypt/archive/ (repeat for each directory, the "a" switch will preserve symbolic links, find . -type l -ls will display the symbolic links)
+*Change DNS Settings
 All of the above assumes the new server has the same services running like Apache, PHP, MariaDB / mySQL, etc.
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