[wp-hackers] Tips for moving a Wordpress install

[Christian Gundersson]

I've looked at this alternative, but as you mention in step 4 there will be
search and replacing since WP itself inserts absolute paths in posts when
you insert an image from media library.

And to answer Mikes question, almost all cases I'm interested in will be
moving from a local development platform to a public site which means that
the domain name/siteurl will change.

I was hoping that there would be a less cumbersome way of doing this step.

//Christian



2009/12/1 Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists at gmail.com>

> Christian Gundersson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been trying to find a good guide to moving a Wordpress installed
> site
> > from one location to another, more specifically from one host to another.
> >
> > All guides I've found fail in one aspect or the other. Either they
> > completely disregard moving the media library(an important part in many
> of
> > my sites) or they move files but not metadata information.
> >
> > There is always the complete database backup option using phpMyAdmin but
> > won't that screw with site urls etc?
> >
> > How do you guys move from a development install to a live install site?
>
> 1. Dump the database to a file.
>
> 2. Copy the entire file tree over to the new location.
>
> 3. Modify wp-config to match new domain/db details.
>
> 4. If you hard-coded anything like absolute paths into your data (e.g.
> beta.foo.com/blog/2009/my-images/ instead of /blog/2009/my-images/), you
> need to run a search and replace on your database dump file before
> inserting it.
>
> 4a. Go to wp_options in the database dump and update the values for
> 'home' and 'siteurl.' (We've been through this a couple of times just
> this last week.)
>
> 5. Reinsert the database contents in the new database.
>
> Harish
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