Hi, I’m sure I can help you with this. Firstly on your older site which you say is hosted on linux. Do you have any sort of control panel for accessing the files or the database? When you login to GoDaddy, do they give you any link to a file manager?
Yes, I have access to a file manager. But there is no option for downloading everything.
What you could do is install https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/updraftplus/ from the admin section. You could backup your entire site and database and save it to dropbox or google drive. Then you could download that and upload the website to cPanel. Are you familiar with setting up your database and connecting it in your wp-config or did you use the cPanel WP installer?
That’s just it, everyone says, just copy it, or save it to wherever, and I don’t know how to do that. I backed up my site or my database on GoDaddy, but I don’t know how to download everything to somewhere else. All I’ve been able to do is get this XML file from within WordPress export.
I think I used the cPanel installer, but I did install WP on the other hosting system by myself originally. Of course that was 5 years ago.
Now whatever I did is causing my entire site to have gone down! I’m going to have to end up paying GoDaddy to fix this. 🙁
My site is marketingmommy.com in case you can see the error and tell me what I did. My new (second) site is GrowingGodsChurch.com. That one is the one on cPanel. I’m trying to move marketingmommy.com over to the hosting that the other one is on and I screwed something up royally.
Unfortunately, I think you could be right. If you are are having issues with being able to download the site from file manager, you might be better off paying someone a small amount to fix it and move it over for you. It’s a fairly straight forward process but you would need to understand what you are trying to do. The XML export is not going to transfer your site over. It would be a way to backup your theme options.
Essentially what you need to do is download files from the linux server. As in download a copy of the whole folder, all your files to your computer. If file manager is not giving you an option to download them, you might have to FTP into the folder using an FTP client and download the files to a local folder on your computer. You then need to export out your database from the database storage on the linux server. Normally there would be a PHPMyAdmin option which is a user interface to export out the database. Again you would need to download a local copy of the database.
You would then need to upload the files to your new hosting on cPanel. You would have to create a new domain in cPanel to create a directory for you to load it into. You would then have to create the database and upload the downloaded sql file. Lastly, you would have to connect the database to the website files in wp-config.php and switch the dns records of your domain to point to the new server.
If that sounds too complicated, I think you need help with the task.
Have you possibly edited the .htaccess file to cause that error?
There is the PHPMyAdmin option! I didn’t know that was where I should go. I was able to log in and found the export tab. I have my SQL file. How do I create a new directory?
By the way, thank you for your help so far.
