I have been making a website for a friend of mine.
http://freelanceaccounting.co.za
It's for a school. Now I want to move the entire WordPress site to his domain.
I was going to follow this guide: (also unless I am mistaken this guide says I don't need to install WordPress on the new domain, the install.bak that the plugin creates. will install it for me???)
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-properly-move-wordpress-to-a-new-domain-without-losing-seo/
But I wanted to know if the SO community knew a better way?
Does your domain have a host? if yes download your existing file and upload it to host.
https://ph.godaddy.com/help/upload-files-3239
also dont forget to configure your database in host..
It's easiest way drop a mail or call to hostiong provider say i want to change domain name and set DNS server to new domain and change DNS to old domain.
and check... :)
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Background:
So I have a website which is up and running. But now I want to change the hosting provider of my existing website due to certain issues.
Since, I am changing my hosting provider I thought I had do some website changes as well so I am going to buy a new WordPress theme from a third-party and run it on the new hosting provider.
My research
For what I learned, I will have to buy a different domain name and host my newly bought WordPress theme on it. And when I have made the desired changes to my WordPress theme then I can change the domain settings with my new hosting provider and redirect the old website links to the new website.
My question is
How can I host my new website on the same domain while my old website is still hosted? Is that even possible?
Is there a way where I can keep my existing website running while I am working on my new website but the new website needs to run on the same domain name as the old website was running on?
I will give you 3 solutions to solve this problem depending on your ability.
On live site running you login hosting and create new site dev after done you can point domain to new hosting and move code ( use plugin i think point domain + souce about 1 - 2h if update delay can 1 day ), if you are anxious you can temporarily turn off the indexing.
New hosting provider when payment done they'll send you link static domain temporary ( or use domain free: tk, co.cc,... ) and you working it after done you need point domain and update url in database.
Old hosting provider you can create new subdomain but point it to new hosting provider and working in new hosting when done you only point main domain to new hosting after use plugin clone to root site.
Can use DNS but you need you need to have experience with the system.
Hope to help you solve your problem.
Note:
You can learn plugin Duplicator best migration hosting.
This is what you should do.
Create a full backup of your exiting files and database
Activate the maintainance mode
Install your new theme into your current wordpress installation
Make the required changes
Once you are happy get a full back up including database
Do the DNS changes on your domain register
Upload your site, to your new host , to the correct path / folder
Wait for the DNS update and your are good to go.
I have to migrate a website that no longer using its Media library but cloudfront, I wonder the process to migrate it will be any different?
Normally I use WP plugin Duplicator, All in one migration, or just copy files & database (change domain name) directly to the new server.
I wonder will it work the same for cdn content website or I have to do something else?
At the first day, I may use a temporary domain name and testing if it's ok we will redirect the live domain name to it.
Please give me advice if you have experienced this.
Thank you very much.
http://sidparmar.ca/portfolio/ This is my portfolio website and an only home page is working with the domain name. Every link is broken unless replaced by IP of my VPS which is 64.20.53.42.
So usually it should work like sidparmar.ca/portfolio/contact/ (give me an error "The requested URL /portfolio/resume/ was not found on this server.")
but currently, it is only working if I type 64.20.53.42/portfolio/contact/ as URL.
Please let me know if you have any suggestions/advice or pointer that I should look into. Any help is appreciated.
Has your site been like this since you installed Wordpress? If so, then where did you install wordpress (i.e. what directory)? It looks like you did not install it in the web root directory of your web server. Also, when you installed Wordpress, are you sure you specified the correct URL of your website?
My suggestion based on the limited information you provided and the minor amount of custom content of your website is to simply delete your database and files, create a new database, and re-installation Wordpress following exactly the correct instructions. Your VPS host may have an outlined process for you.
Alternatively, if this is a new issue, do you think you caused it? If so, what did you do? If not, you should probably contact your VPS host to see if you or they need to make an update in your DNS settings.
Found the answer by myself! Yeah!
I just added "ServerAlias www.domainname.ca" to my apache2 conf file (000-default.conf) which you can probably find at /etc/apache2/sites-available directory in your VPS.
Not sure why this worked or what exactly caused the problem but I am sure that it happened because of Yoast SEO plugin.
I have created a demo website for a client. I installed the site on the client's live domain name and I used the etc/host DNS trick to point the domain to my development sever. Now I want to send a live preview to client for validation but I don't want to bother her with technical details such as modifying local computer host file. The client doesn’t want to switch the domain to the new site either, until everything is ready as the site is highly active. I have tried the cpanel temporary link (mod_userdir is enabled) but it breaks everything including styles and scripts. Do you have any solution. Thanks.
Update: I have found this site if it can help nodns.io, they only need the emulated domain name and the development server IP.
You can still use the temporary URL and that is the easiest way. You just need to make a change in the WordPress database. You can go to cPanel -> phpMyAdmin, open the database and look for the _options table.
Once you find it, you need to change the home and siteurl options to the temporary URL:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
You can follow the "Changing the URL directly in the database" directions.
Goodluck!
Iam using hostgator and I want to move my wordpress application from the root directory 'home/username/' to a new directory which is 'home/username/mysite' and the website url should be mysite.com, I tried to do that but now my website url is mysite.com/mysite, so what I could do ?
Unfortunately, Hostgator cPanel does not allow you to change the root folder of the primary domain to anything other than the default public_html folder yourself. If you really need to do it, you need to contact their migrations department. Also, please note that this only works for a VPS or a Dedicated server.
There is, however, a workaround to avoid going through this process to achieve the desired result:
Change the primary domain name on your Hostgator account to something else. (mynewsite.com)
Now create an add-on domain with the original domain name. (mysite.com)
Point the add-on domain mysite.com to the new folder that contains the Wordpress installation. (home/username/mysite)
Your original domain name will now point to the new folder as you desired.
It's not pretty, I admit, but it gets the job done.
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