There are few ways to do this. I suppose you have shared hosting package on that installation and that you “only” need to change your domain name. So one solution would be to rename your hosting package to another domain. If your domain is now somedomain.com, and you want to transfer it to someotherdomain.com, you … Read more
I’d suggest creating a Yeoman generator. I’ve written one for my starter theme which you might find helpful if you write your own: https://github.com/powerbuoy/SleekWPGenerator
As socki03 suggested, I downloaded and upload a fresh install and things are now limping along a bit. I’m posting the configuration issue I’m having in another question. Thanks for the help.
How can I solve this and besides, Can someone explain me where this temporary config file is located? This will be generated in the WordPress root folder, the same from where you call the wp-cli. Keep in mind you need to provide the correct username password and database name, else it will error. If you … Read more
Move your site files from site.com/website to site.com/wordpress (or just rename the folder if you prefer) Download the Search/Replace PHP script from here: https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/ and read the instructions carefully. Upload the Search/Replace PHP script to your new site location in a suitable folder eg. site.com/wordpress/srdb Run the script by visiting site.com/wordpress/srdb Enter the existing site … Read more
Open wp-config.php (which is in your new WordPress installation’s main directory) in a text editor. Locate the line that reads $table_prefix = ‘wp_’; Modify the value of $table_prefix to the prefix in your backup database and Save. Refresh the setup page of your WordPress installation.
It looks like the file you downloaded, versionpress-master.zip, isn’t structured like a WordPress plugin. When I unzip versionpress-master.zip, the plugin looks like it’s in the directory plugins/versionpress. You’ll need to copy that directory and all its contents to your site’s plugin directory (usually wp-content/plugins). Edited to add: The official site’s installation instructions indicate that you … Read more
You may first need to modify the wp-config.php file for using the local database. Then use the Search and Replace plugin to replace all your live site links with the localhost links. Example: If your live site url is: http://mysite.com/, replace it with http://localhost/mysite/. This will also replace the urls for pages and posts like: … Read more
In wp-config.php under the different salts there was a line, which I missed because it was directly under the different salts. define(‘WP_TEMP_DIR’, ‘/home/oldserver/domains/olddomain.be/public_html/website/wp-content/uploads’); Obviously that needed to be changed to the new server path as well.
they are just index files and you can delete them, WordPress will add its own index.php file. php.ini is configuration file for php so you should keep it as it may be of some use. If you get any php related errors you can try deleting it too or we’ll need to modify it…