Comments on: Move your WordPress Blog to another host or server in 10 easy steps

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:27:26 +0000

Sai, the last step (10) is about changing the DNS IP addresses to the new host. It usually shouldn’t have any downtime though the DNS propagation takes upto 48 hrs. While it’s being propagated, the site will be pointing to the old host.

By: Sai

Sai — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:57:59 +0000

Hi Ajith, what a great post. Thank you so much for this.
I am not at all a pro or in anyway technical. But I own a WP blog hosted by Fatcow and I am trying to transfer my blog to another account (with fatcow too, but they won´t help me without expensive cost). I have a simple question. In all of this, when or in which step do you actually transfer the domain (to reduce or avoid the down time)? thanks a lot.

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By: Max - The IT Pro

Max - The IT Pro — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:39:29 +0000

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I’ve been using them for about 3 years now and I don’t feel the need to look at other competitors because, well, I’m VERY HAPPY.
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By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:24:04 +0000

@Anil, Among shared web hosting services, hostgator is among the best or the best itself. As a new customer, when you signup you get a very good discount as well. However, you have to sign up two or three years to get the cost benefit.

By: Anil

Anil — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 07:57:53 +0000

Hi, First of all a very wonderful post. Thanks. I am also thinking about moving my blog from my current host hostjava.net to a more reliable one. My blog remains down at least once in every ten days and it is seriously affecting the traffic. Could you explain a bit why u chose Hostgater ? So that I can also make the move.

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:49:36 +0000

@Max, I should try that out first and then share my experience

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:48:56 +0000

@Rilla, I am happy that my post has been of good use for you.

By: Max - The IT pro

Max - The IT pro — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:05:45 +0000

Hey, how about a tutorial for moving from 2.9.2 to WP 3.0 RC1??
I can see a lot of people pulling their hair out over this one.

By: Rilla

Rilla — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:28:57 +0000

Thank you incredibly much. I had to reinstall WP no less than 3 times before I found this tutorial which worked it beautifully & easily!

By: gisli haukur

gisli haukur — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:34:52 +0000

Brilliant !

“3rd solution is very silly and i.e = create a new page publish it and delete it…”

Saved me a lot of hassle

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:57:38 +0000

@Tricia, @Samantha, you are welcome! I am glad that the post helped you to get through your upgrades smoothly.

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:56:49 +0000

@Chantel, did you manage to get rid of the 500 error finally?

By: samantha

samantha — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:00:44 +0000

Thank you so much! I tried following instructions on other sites but they didn’t seem as concise. Your instructions worked out perfectly.

I was under float hosting and quite frankly its a horrible hosting service. I’m back with bluehost now. thank you once again.

By: Tricia

Tricia — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:35:26 +0000

appreciate this. this is the first time I have EVER successfully relocated a wp blog and held onto the content. Have tried many times….

By: Chantel

Chantel — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:05:52 +0000

I’m no technical here, but you’d think that following the directions that are so clear would mean I couldn’t go wrong. Apparently I have a knack for it. I think I did everything according to the directions. I am getting a 500 Internal Server Error. I am not sure WHAT to look for, but this happens as soon as I upload the wp_contents folder, before I import my DB into the new one, so is there something that could be referring to the old DB in the content files? I’ve tried this more than 5 times and still get the 500 error and I’m at my wits end.

Any help?

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:54:11 +0000

Hi Douglas,
If your host changes their servers and if the DNS remain the same, it is their duty to make sure that the new server IPs are included in the DNS lookup. You don’t need to do anything here.

Now, in order to access the admin panel in the form http://xx.xx.xxx.xx/~abcefg/abcefgblog/wp-login.php (i.e. when DNS is not available) the site URL option has to be something like http://xx.xx.xxx.xx/~abcefg/abcefgblog because the other option that you have right now (i.e. http://abcefg.org/abcefgblog) would need DNS.

I hope your host has sorted out the DNS problem already

(PS: I am on vacation and have very limited access to the Internet. Please expect significant delays in replies)

By: Douglas

Douglas — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:24:16 +0000

Hi there,

My host changed servers and all websites now have a new IP address. Same domain name and nameservers, though my host and domain name provider are different.

Please also note I never entered into my blog, a Name or description under General/Settings.That is when i could log into it.

I can get into Cpanel but simply putting the newly advised IP infront of ‘/Cpanel’ however I can not reach the admin panel of my WordPress blog.

I had been loggin into it via
http://xx.xx.xxx.xx/~abcefg/abcefgblog/wp-login.php, my host suggested to simply insert the new ip in place of the old one. I still get the error message

“404 Not Found

The server can not find the requested page:
Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.12 Server at 74.50.108.14 Port 80″

I have logged into myPHPadmin and found the wp-options table and searched for “SELECT * FROM `wp_options` WHERE `option_name` IN (‘siteurl’, ‘home’)”

Only option ID 39 came up and the results are
‘Home’ has optionvalue
http://abcefg.org

‘siteurl’ has optionvalue http://abcefg.org/abcefgblog

Both of which appear correct. Is there any part of the mysql tables where I can change an actual IP address?

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By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:06:43 +0000

Man… ‘~’ before the username really helped. You definitely saved a lot of work for me – working with a client. I am developing on my platform – because his DNS is pointing to this existing site which he does not want to lose but we are porting his site to a new host.

Great help. Appreciate it…

Regards,
Ashwin