Title: Migration Question
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Migration Question

 *  Resolved [shadowdad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shadowdad/)
 * (@shadowdad)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migration-question/)
 * background, have read the codex and Tamba2 documents on moving a WP install. 
   i am modestly technical (but not deeply WP experienced).
 * Config. have a working blog [http://www.lakewennews.com](http://www.lakewennews.com)
   this was built as a test site for [http://www.lakewenatcheeinfo.com](http://www.lakewenatcheeinfo.com).
 * Hosted at Dreamhost. I have two identical directory tree’s. I would like to keep
   Lakewennews as a test blog. am willing to create a new DB for it. Would like 
   current DB to go with the production site, the DB is populated, and was named
   lakewenatcheeinfo.
 * Currently have lakewenatcheeinfo domain referring to lakewennews.
 * I cleared the wp_cache. i tweaked the database for the new url. i waited and 
   all i got was a blank page.
 * Restored the database to point at initial url and all reappeard.
 * ?’s
    1: Is there any problem trying to use the DB as is? 2: Do i need to tweak
   anything to make the new blog aware of the DB? (it is a clone of old blog)
 * more info:
    from the wp_config.php
 * // ** MySQL settings ** //
    define(‘WP_CACHE’, true); //Added by WP-Cache Manager
   define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘lakewenatcheeinfo’); // The name of the database define(‘DB_USER’,‘****’);//
   Your MySQL username define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘****’); // …and password define(‘DB_HOST’,‘
   mysql.lakewennews.com’); // …and the server MySQL is running on
 * ? the host doesn’t talk about the server, but references the test domain, is 
   this the problem?

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 *  [efarmstrong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/efarmstrong/)
 * (@efarmstrong)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migration-question/#post-610469)
 * Same boat here, all I can say is that WP put ULR’s all over the database and 
   even if you change it to the new host URL some side efects occurs if you don’t
   edit the database file before restoring it.
 *  [efarmstrong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/efarmstrong/)
 * (@efarmstrong)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migration-question/#post-610470)
 * Anyway the answer may be here:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress)
 * Follow carefully acording to your needs and you will be fine.

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migration-question/#post-610470)
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