How to migrate a Wordpress site?

January 31, 2014 3k views
mertcanelkaya
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I bought a droplet yesterday and I am new to VPS concept. I have a wordpress site on GoDaddy and I want to host it here in my VPS. I have installed Cpanel but after that I don't know what I am going to do. Please help.
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chrischapmanpw February 1, 2014
What you will have to do is export the files in the document root of the old host and transfer them to your new droplet, and then export the old host's database .sql file; You can run the contents of the .sql file in phpMyAdmin which you should be able to find on your cPanel installation.
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knagilive February 1, 2014
Which OS are you using for your Droplet?
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sianios March 23, 2014
First you have to make an installation of Wordpress, search in the website to find the one for your Droplet OS. Then go here https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-migrate-wordpress-from-shared-hosting-to-a-cloud-server-with-zero-downtime and follow the instructions.
How To Migrate WordPress from Shared Hosting to a Cloud Server with Zero Downtime
by Ramesh Jha
If you read through this article you'll have the knowledge to migrate your WordPress site from Shared Hosting to a Cloud Server with zero downtime.
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