Hi I have Issue transferring several websites from shared hosting.While transferring I used How to Set Up Multiple WordPress Sites on a Single Ubuntu VPSand How to Migrate WordPress from Shared Hosting to a Cloud Server with Zero Downtimetutorials(!).What I have to do is to transfer about 10 websites from shared hosting to digital ocean.At shared hosting I had 3 dbases: arkbonline arkbonline_laconsta arkbonline_tree - the last base was used by most of those 10 websites, they had different prefixes.arkbonline_laconsta - had only one website laconsta.ru .With the help of How to Migrate WordPress from Shared Hosting to a Cloud Server with Zero Downtimetutorial it was pretty easy to transfer laconsta.ru website. Now it has its own database with the same name but different username. The second website used arkbonline_tree database. I’ve restored the sql script to a new database with a different name - let’s call it tree_ocean. Created new SQL user for this new restored database. Then I set up all the virtual hosting stuff and uploaded contents of the wordpress website to digital ocean. After updating DNS the issue I face is that the website sends me to /wp-admin/install.php page. It does not display any error message. It simply thinks that it is clean installation of Wordpress. I’ve tried to reinstall it several times. But every time I get /wp-admin/install.php page.I didnt face this issue with the first WP website.What would you recommend me check?

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Transferring several WordPress websites from shared hosting

Posted on September 21, 2013

Hi I have Issue transferring several websites from shared hosting. While transferring I used How to Set Up Multiple WordPress Sites on a Single Ubuntu VPS and How to Migrate WordPress from Shared Hosting to a Cloud Server with Zero Downtime tutorials(!). What I have to do is to transfer about 10 websites from shared hosting to digital ocean. At shared hosting I had 3 dbases:

arkbonline
arkbonline_laconsta
arkbonline_tree - the last base was used by most of those 10 websites, they had different prefixes. arkbonline_laconsta - had only one website laconsta.ru. With the help of How to Migrate WordPress from Shared Hosting to a Cloud Server with Zero Downtime tutorial it was pretty easy to transfer laconsta.ru website. Now it has its own database with the same name but different username.

The second website used arkbonline_tree database. I’ve restored the sql script to a new database with a different name - let’s call it tree_ocean. Created new SQL user for this new restored database. Then I set up all the virtual hosting stuff and uploaded contents of the wordpress website to digital ocean. After updating DNS the issue I face is that the website sends me to /wp-admin/install.php page. It does not display any error message. It simply thinks that it is clean installation of Wordpress. I’ve tried to reinstall it several times. But every time I get /wp-admin/install.php page. I didnt face this issue with the first WP website. What would you recommend me check?

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