Title: DB problems
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# DB problems

 *  Resolved [chuffer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chuffer/)
 * (@chuffer)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/db-problems-1/)
 * I had problems with my site when hacked into and decided to install fresh wp 
   2.5.1 I did as was instructed and deleted any old files and installed wp .
    after
   this i pointed my config file to the db callum_chuffer but it wouldn’t accept
   this and was finally installed when I made a new DB callum_chuffer2 . Because
   of this I have not been able to recover any posts etc from the first db . Is 
   there a way to transfer this info to the chuffer2 db . I am not good with SQL
   db’s so any solution made simple would be appreciated or how to get wp to see
   the original chuffer db .
 * thx chuffer

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/db-problems-1/#post-778295)
 * Not too sure what was hacked, but change your wp-config.php file to point to 
   the ‘old’ database. Then use the Manage->Export to create an XML file. Then change
   the wp-config.php file to point to the new database and do Manage->Import->WordPress
   with the XML file.
 *  Thread Starter [chuffer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chuffer/)
 * (@chuffer)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/db-problems-1/#post-778336)
 * Thanks for the reply but after trying this all that happens is as soon as I change
   wp-config.php to the old db callum_chuffer and try to use Manage export then 
   I get a 404 Error Not found and I can’t log back into wordpress until the config
   file is changed back to the new db callum_chuffer2
 * brgds
 * Callum
 *  [marcosrj21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcosrj21/)
 * (@marcosrj21)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/db-problems-1/#post-778360)
 * Do your old database, works fine? If yes, I think you can export all data from
   de old one to the new one.
 * If you don’t have any ideia tell here and I show the How-to.
 * PS: is that obvioslly? If it is, sorry. Mean that I didn’t get your problem =/
 *  Thread Starter [chuffer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chuffer/)
 * (@chuffer)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/db-problems-1/#post-778539)
 * When I point the config file to db callum_chuffer then I just get a blank page.
   Point it back to callum_chuffer2 and the site comes up .
    How can I check if 
   the old db works ? all I want to do is transfer the records from chuffer to chuffer2–
   is there an easy way
 * And NO – nothing seems obvious to me
 * Thx
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/db-problems-1/#post-778551)
 * Seems you old database doesn’t work. Might try Rebuilding it with phpMyAdmin 
   then repeat the process I detailed above.
 * Or could ask your host to restore an old copy of the database.
 * Might want to do a database backup before doing anything else.
 * [Backing_Up_Your_Database](http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database)

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
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 * Last reply from: [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * Last activity: [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/db-problems-1/#post-778551)
 * Status: resolved

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