What you need is a copy of the WordPress database. I only hope that when you re-installed that you started with a fresh database and didn’t overwrite the old one. Have you switched to a new server?
First make sure that you have properly set the database (old one) and make sure the link is right. eg:http://yoursite.com
Secondly upload your new wordpress to your server but don’t run it from browser yet. There is a file named wp_config_sample.php, rename it to wp_config.php and open it. There edit 3 things your database name, database username and password
this is where to edit.
// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘database_name_here’);
/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘username_here’);
/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password_here’);
If the url in your database matches the url to your wordpress site. The should properly work with all your old stuffs.
ok, thanks for the infos, it’s quite helpful.
I still have the whole old database, so that won’t be a problem.
Uploading the old one (the config is right, thanks) I found out that there must be an errror in that old database. My wordpress address is mydomain.myhostsdomain.com/wordpress.
When I want to visit that site I just get nothing but an ad (preset of my hoster).
Visiting only ‘mydomain.myhostsdomain.com’ i get a table of existing folders. The only 2 folders that are displayed there are filemanager and phpmyadmin. wordpress is missing.
Having the new one installed i do get the wordpress folder…
do oyu know what to do??
thanks again
