Step-By-Step On Moving A Yahoo-Based WP Site To HostGator

How To Move Your Sub-Directory Based WordPress Website From Yahoo Small Business Hosting to HostGator

This clause assumes that your present Yahoo-based website is WordPress pushed and saved in a sub-directory. The course of may go simply as effectively for root listing WordPress recordsdata, ne'ertheless since all my WP websites perform from inside sub-directories, I have ne'er examined this course of for root-based functions.

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So let's make it direct and candy. Begin.

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1) Login to your HostGator cPanel

2) Open File Manager (That's 5 sections down on the appropriate inside the part labeled "Files")

3) On the left aspect of the display screen, double click on the "public_html" pamphlet

4) At the highest left of the display screen, click on "New Folder"

5) Label the pamphlet with the identical title as your present Yahoo hosted WordPress sub-pamphlet title

6) Return to cPanel dwelling

7) Scroll down on the left till you see the block titled WordPress Hosting

8) Click "Install Now"

9) On the set up display screen, click on proceed

10) Input the title of your new created pamphlet into the "Application URL" field

11) For Admin Email, Blog Title, ext, enter the identical data used in your Yahoo-based WordPress website

12) Click "Install Now" and wait till the set up is full

13) Return to cPanel

14) Open File Manager>public_html>your new pamphlet the place WP is now put in

15) Copy each "index.php" and "wp-config.php" backward into the basis "public_html" pamphlet

16) Use FTP to add all your saved WordPress recordsdata and settings into the new created listing, overwriting new created WordPress recordsdata.

17) Return to cPanel and scroll right down to the Databases panel and choose MySQL Databases

18) Mid-screen, below "Current Databases". Delete the new created database.

19) Confirm the delete after which return to cPanel dwelling

20) Again below the "Databases" heading, ne'ertheless this time hand-picked "phpMyAdmin"

21) Confirm that the database was truly deleted. If not, return to step "16" and love once more.

22) Database delete confirmed... Return to cPanel and open "MySql Databases" once more.

23) Under "Create New Database", recreate the database you simply deleted, ne'ertheless DO NOT add a soul at the moment.

24) Confirm creation after which return to cPanel

25) Open "phpMyAdmin"

26) On the left, below databases, choose the HostGator hosting database you simply created

27) Choose the "Import" possibility

28) Enter the trail to your copy of the present transfer Yahoo hosted SQL file

29) Because no soul is but appointed to the database, it would import with out error

30) Confirm completion of the import

31) Close phpMyAdmin

32) Return to cPanel and open "MySql Databases" once more

33) Assign one of many current customers to the brand new database

34) Confirm that the soul rights are established and make report of the precise soul title

35) Return to File Manager. Go to the basis public_html listing. Open for edit the "index.php" that you just earlier copied out of your WordPress listing. See line 15 of those directions.

Note line 5 of the instance index.php file, If this line doesn't already embrace the title of your house WP listing, it is best to make this inclusion at the moment.

1 <?php

2 /
* Short and candy
*/

Three outline('WP_USE_THEMES', true);

Four outline('WP_IN_ROOTDIR', true);

5 require('./placeherenameofyourWPhomedirectory/wp-blog-header.php');

6?>

36) Save the altered "index.php" file after which open your new WP listing.

37) Select the present "wp-config.php" file. Locate the matter content pertaining to DB_NAME, MySQL database username, watchword, and MySQL hostname. The DB_Name ought to learn 'yourHostGatorlogin_yournewcreateddatabase'. Username ought to match the username that you just appointed to this database in line 33 of those directions. Leave the watchword unchanged. Hostname ought to only learn 'localhost'. Use the next excerpt e.g. of how this file ought to learn:

outline('DB_NAME', 'meathostgator_mynewwpdirectory');

/
*
* MySQL database username
*/

outline('DB_USER', 'appointedusername');

/
*
* MySQL database watchword
*/

outline('DB_PASSWORD', 'leaveunchanged');

/
*
* MySQL hostname
*/

outline('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

38) Save the file. Check for fulfillment.

This completes the method of transfer a Yahoo hosted, WordPress sub-directory saved website to HostGator. Don't know if it would work for every other net hosting substitute companies.