Well it’s really not good practise, but this depends on how you’re accessing the other databases. For example, I have a server that hosts 10+ different WordPress sites. I have two options for connecting to the databases: Use the root login in all my wp-config.php files as it’s easier Create a user and logins associated … Read more
From the looks of it, you should be changing the pre-existing urls from /www.mypage.no to /localhost The /var/www is part of the file path normally (though i suppose you could potentially set the server up that way…), so more than likely wordpress thinks it is at /var/www relative to the web root instead of /. … Read more
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You’ll need to make some modifications to wp-config.php. Add the following so WordPress picks up the domain automatically based on the environment: define( ‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://’ . $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’] ); define( ‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://’ . $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’] ); Now we need to make WordPress a little more portable by having it determine which host to use based on which … Read more
Moving Site: Is Re-downloading Files After Changing URLs necessary?
I think the best way to do it is just go direct into your phpmyadmin and export your database
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As Milo noted, you need to call the importposts functions to have it do anything. Additionally, if your post is not inserted, post_id should hold a wp_error object, so you could see what is wrong by doing the following right before add_post_meta if ( is_wp_error( $post_id ) ) { echo “<p>Bad Post Attempt:</p><pre>” . print_r($post_id, … Read more
Import the database on the new server. When your domain name or URLs change there are additional concerns. The files and database can be moved, however references to the old domain name or location will remain in the database, and that can cause issues with links or theme display. If you do a search and … Read more
The issue was one of mixed encoding. Some fields contained data encoded properly as UTF-8; others contained data encoded as something else, probably ISO-8859-1. When imported to a new UTF-8 database, this was causing truncation. My steps to solve this: Copy the original database, wordpress, to a new database, wordpress2. Make sure the collation of … Read more