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How to transfer database from old host to Digitalocean
Hello,
I am currently having a wordpress website at cloudways and I want to migrate to digitalocean. I successfully installed wordpress using easyengine (nginx) and I transferred wp-content to the new server here.
I am stuck at migrating the database. As I can understand the default location for databases is at /var/lib/mysql. How can I transfer my old database here using an .sql or .sql.gp file?
I used this command mysql -h localhost -u xtmdntvrds -p xtmdntvrds < xtmdntvrds.sql but when I insert password it gives me ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'xtmdntvrds'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
The password is correct for sure because I can see it in wp-config.php file.
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The simplest way is to install a Wordpress plugin called Duplicator and follow the instructions. It will also handle renaming of the URLs for you.