Title: Moving from Windows to Linux/Apache Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Moving from Windows to Linux/Apache * [CacCan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caccan/) * (@caccan) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-from-windows-to-linuxapache/) * Searching this site and the web in general returns a number of results for moving a WordPress blog from one server to another. However, as far as I can see they all involve moving between the same server operating systems, usually Linux/Apache– > Linux/Apache. * I have a 3.0.1 WordPress installation (Thesis 1.8) on a Windows 2008 Server/IIS7. It works fine, but for various reasons I want to move it to a Linux/Apache server. * **Anyone know of any instructions for doing this?** * TIA Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-from-windows-to-linuxapache/#post-1659848) * The file copy of your public_HTML folder and the mysql db should be pretty much that same, I think. I checked a couple blogs on the subject, and most people say that it works fine. * Thread Starter [CacCan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caccan/) * (@caccan) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-from-windows-to-linuxapache/#post-1659854) * Hi ipstenu. * So what do you suggest should be the procedure? Here’s my guess based on your reply… * 1. Backup the database from the original installation and download to local PC. 2. Copy public_HTML folder from original installation to local PC. 3. Install WordPress on the Linux/Apache server. 4. Copy all of the original public_HTML folder to the Linux server. 5. Import the database backup to the new installation on the Linux server. * Close? * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-from-windows-to-linuxapache/#post-1659878) * 1. Correct. 2. Correct. 3. No need to do this since you’ve got the original database and files. 4. Correct. 5. Correct. * If you’re changing domain for any reason, make sure that you change the two URLs at Settings/General to the new domain before backing up. * Also, you may need to make changes to the `wp-config.php` file to connect to the database on the new server. * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-from-windows-to-linuxapache/#post-1659994) * I was going to say make sure you bring over any hidden files like .htaccess, but I don’t know if windows uses them at all or not. If you have them, you may need new ones instead of the ones you have so … Just be aware that you might have to reset your permalinks 🙂 * Thanks for covering, James 🙂 * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-from-windows-to-linuxapache/#post-1660008) * You’re welcome, Mika! And, thanks for reminding me about the permalinks. * Thread Starter [CacCan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caccan/) * (@caccan) * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-from-windows-to-linuxapache/#post-1660144) * Oops! * Thanks for the try guys, but I just realized that **Windows Servers don’t have a public_html folder**. * I had to drop this matter for a while to go put out some fires elsewhere. Just came back to this and when I inspected the original blog location (Windows 2008 Server) with my FTP program it hit me straight away that there was no public_html folder to copy. * WordPress was installed into a folder called /blog off the root (wwwroot) of the Windows server. * Also, Windows does not use an .htaccess file. * **Anyone got any more information specifically on moving a WordPress installation from a Windows 2000 server to a Linux/Apache server?** * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-from-windows-to-linuxapache/#post-1660147) * Basically, it’s all the same, except this time you’re moving the `/blog/` directory, and don’t worry about `.htaccess` since you don’t have one. * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-from-windows-to-linuxapache/#post-1660148) * And wwwroot is the same as public_html 🙂 Even some apache servers use it. The name is arbitrary, but there are some usual suspects 😉 Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘Moving from Windows to Linux/Apache’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [apache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/apache/) * [linux](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/linux/) * [move](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/move/) * [windows](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/windows/) * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 8 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-from-windows-to-linuxapache/#post-1660148) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics