Comments on: Move WordPress To a New Server

By: shayne

shayne — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:21:32 +0000

Karen,

That could be a number of things. I would contact your host and give them that error and let them help you with that.

By: Enter Your Name...

Enter Your Name... — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:39:54 +0000

I actually moved it from a standard Wordpress install to a MU install. I was going to write up a guide on how to do that, but fortunately WordPress 3.0 will eliminate that need!

By: Kilwag

Kilwag — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:37:16 +0000

I used this method to move wordpress installs a few times but the last time it wouldn’t work. Basically it was an known issue with PHPMyadmin, it doesn’t always work once the database gets larger than a certain size…(don’t ask e what size) I even tried exporting tables individually, but the larger ones wouldn’t work. It would just time out eventually. I ended up having to do the database dump via ssh in the terminal, looked it up on Google, it ended up being super quick. I used it on the site that is linked in my name. It had about 2,500 posts and 20,000 comments at the time.

By: karen

karen — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:37:21 +0000

Hey, thanks so much, you sent me the link to these instructions from Linkedin. I followed your instructions but when I tried to import the database I got the following error message:
Error
SQL query:
– Database: `buneekb_wrdp1`
CREATE DATABASE `buneekb_wrdp1` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE latin1_swedish_ci;
MySQL said:
#1044 – Access denied for user ‘clickher’@'localhost’ to database ‘buneekb_wrdp1′
Any idea what i am doing wrong. ? My original test site was at b-uneek.net, and i was trying to learn how to transfer a WP site by bringing it over to clickhereforworldpeace.com.

If you have any ideas I’d be really grateful.
thanks again,
Karen

By: WPExplorer

WPExplorer — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:54:15 +0000

This is always a scary process and can be quite difficult for Wordpress novices. You did a good job with this tutorial. Kudos.

By: ERIC

ERIC — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:39:36 +0000

thanks for all the help i kinda figure out wehat the problem was… i disabled all plug ins but i left the wp ecommerce active and making it still active plug in cause this error make sure its all disabled before copying to your pc… ugh should have benn more attentive… thanks so much shayne… happy holidays dude

By: eric

eric — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:52:21 +0000

kinda played around with it… and i think whats causing this is the wp eCommerce plugin… i installed a fresh one and after that i installed the wp e commerce and then the error poped up… Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter – headers already sent (output started at /home/content/p/i/n/pinoypinay/html/wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/wpsc-includes/upgrades.php:270) in /home/content/p/i/n/pinoypinay/html/wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/merchants/paypal_certified.php on line 752 as you can see the link error leads to the plug in merchant folder for paypal… tried to look into the codes but still no luck.. any suggestions?

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:16:08 +0000

Is there a way to copy only the products, categories, & variations to another site? I’m splitting up my products into 2 sites and it would be much easier to copy these as opposed to starting from scratch. The 2 sites use different templates so I can’t do a complete copy. Thanks.

By: eric

eric — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:32:18 +0000

hey thanks for the response the first time i saw it, it knida gave me a hint its a plug in issue.. tried it again still no go…. any suggestions?

By: shayne

shayne — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:17:50 +0000

Eric -

Not really 100% sure on that….have you tried deactivating and reactivating the plugin after the move? Also, you might try doing that to other plugins on the site to see if they might be causing issues.