Can someone help me move a wp blog to a new host?

[godinu]

i recently purchased a blog and i need help getting it set up on my godaddy hosting without losing any posts, plugins, layout, etc. seller hasn't been helpful.

I was able to back up files from the old host which had cpanel. I did a WP backup from within WP dashboard, and the backed things up with cPanel per some instructions i saw online. Godaddy doesn't have cpanel so those files won't translate well. Godaddy tech support: well,they don't help with that and told me it was nearly impossible. um, nooo it's not!

thanks for any help you can provide.

 

[The Winner]

What I can think about is the following :
- Make a backup from your old cPanel for your database
- Make a backup for all your wordpress files from your old FTP folder
- Create a new database in your new admin panel (whatever it is, there has to be an option to access MySQL panel)
- Upload your database file to your new database (There is an option to import/export databse)
- Upload your files to your new FTP folder
- Make some changes to the configuration file of your wordpress script (config.php or something like that, in "include" folder I guess) in order to correct the web site url, databse name, database admin username, ...

Hope I helped ..

 

[bauger]

I just followed the instructions on the wordpress site. I had no problems with the move. Look here

http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

 

[godinu]

thanks both of u. i guess i was just a little worried about not copying something 100% correctly and ending up with things that no longer work.

 

[pithu7]

Backup sql database and backup folder wp-content will safe your blog.

 

[laukpauk]

1. Backup sql database and backup folder wp-content
2. Install wordpress blog with fantastico on your hosting
3. upload sql database on phpmy admin , replace folder wp-content with old
wp-content

 

[dotker]

just make sure dont take the whole thing down yet atleast for a week thats what i do..

i know a bit of php mysql stuff but sometimes something still goes wrong when moving stuff im not sure why.. so better be safe than sorry.....

 

[kiezerrence]

i just also read and followed the instructions to give more ideas and to not have a problems why dont you try that by the way
have a good day

 

[peterumingan02]

in reading your post, i gain more knowledge... thankz