Migrating web from shared hosting (I read some questions but they are no help)

Hello, Actually, based on that tutorial, on step 4, if your domain is www.bob.com, you should write sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/bob.com But this tutorial is a little bit old, you should add the .conf extention at the end now, so sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/bob.com.conf

To see how to transfer the domain, take a look at the step 7 of that tutorial. Hope this help, do not hesitate to reply here, I know it can be hard to setup your first server.

Perfect, it worked. Thanks you very much!

Another question please:

I’m on step 5 now, I can’t upload it thorugh the comand line because it keep saying no such file or directory, so I can do it ftp.

Where do I upload the files? (db and wp-content) and are these two the only files I need to migrate a whole web?? I have a backup of all the files.

On step 5 it says:

scp ~/Downloads/backup_db.sql.gz username@server_ip_address: scp ~/Downloads/wp-content.zip username@server_ip_address:

but I’m trying to do it FTP, do I upload them in the root directory or the wordpress directory?

and when restoring the database:

mysql -h localhost -u database_user -p database_name < backup_db.sql.gz

on “database_user” do I write my user from the digitalocean sql wordpress or my old hosting sql? on “database_name” do I create a new one or the same as above?

Oh one more thing, when I downloaded the sql from my old hosting I had it on the formal .sql, if I compress it, it will give me a format backup_db.sql.tar.gz and on the guide it says only .gz does it matter? I’m compressing it on ubuntu

Thanks again!

lol I can’t reply to your post, too long.

That guide helped me. I updated the nameservers. Now I’m just waiting, finger crossed hahaha

Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuu!