I'm still in the throes of trying to move my WordPress blog to another server.
They have moved the files, but there is still a lot to do; though several people at work have given me handy hints as to how I should start to go about it.
I've now got a backup of the database on my hard drive, have edited some of the tables that needed editing. The scary thing, though, is the fact that I have to now drop all the tables & re-build them from the backup.
I think that I might also have to edit the .htaccess file - but when I tried what seemed to be the right thing, it didn't work.
Sites that have been useful so far have been
- Moving WordPress to a different domain
- Moving your wordpress blog to a new domain (and the restore page that's linked to from that post)
Discovering that phpmyadmin is installed on the University servers was useful as well, having tried to do a lot of stuff through a command line!
When faced with all of this, I did wonder if I wanted to scrap that one totally and just use this. I think that Elgg serves the needs of students well, and it's what I'm pressing for as a University blog system. I'd stuck, though, to my WordPress blog before, as it was the one that was really getting the hits.
NOw that it's died, and I guess it will stop being found for a while (there are some useful WordPress plugins for re-directing in the case of a new blog, but you have to have the old one up and running to do it - which I don't).
A few headaches!
Keywords: move domain, Wordpress, wordpress vs elgg