How To Move A WordPress Website

Does anyone have some concise and simple to follow instructions for moving a WP site from one server to another. Same hosting company, but different accounts.

 

and your signature says that you are a wordpress guru, lol

Anyways, to transfer your site, make sure you have the backup of the public_html folder or even a cpanel backup of your home directory.
Dont forget to backup your databases.
Download them, upload them to your new server. thats it.

 

Will be the same domain name? Just one hosting account to another but same domain name?

 

Yes, same domain, so just moving to a new hosting account.

 

Follow these steps carefully:

1. Download the database file from phpmyadmin;

2. Copy all files from old account to new account. Ask your hosting provider to move files from one account to another. If there is no way then download files from old account and then upload to new account via ftp;

3. Login into your cPanel/hosting control panel, create a database on your new account and import the backup copy of the database file. Make sure to keep the database name as well as your database username and password handy.

4. Now for a very important part! You must update the wp-config.php file as follows:
Edit these lines:
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define('DB_NAME', 'yourdatabasename');
define('DB_USER', 'yourdatabaseusername');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'yourdatabasepassword');

Add the following lines:
define(’WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://www.yournewdomainname.com’);
define(’WP_HOME’, ‘http://www.yournewdomainname.com’);

That's all.

Most easiest way to tell your hosting provider to merge your multiple account into 1 account, this saves time.

 

http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
Check out this codex.

 

Contact the Support of your Hosting, They can do that for you

 

I am using 3.4.1. how to fix permalink issue. if i set permalink structure as /%postname%/ then it shows 404 error. please help me to solve this problem. thanks.

 

tell your hosting provider to do this... they can do it in a minute