Need help restoring old backup

  • Resolved Maxi Jabase

    (@maxijabase)


    8 years, 2 months ago

    so i have a small community that used to host a site called chapelaria.top, and that site had wordpress with this backup plugin. It made a backup and the site died completely due to several reasons.

    8 or 9 months later we reopen it under the name of chapelaria.tf, and we don’t want to rewrite it all over again again, and een though we’re doing it, we’re trying to recover what we can from this backwpup .zip file we go from the old site.

    thing is i used Local by Flywheel to create my own wordpress server to test it there but it has been 3 days and i can’t get the database to work with the site i’m trying to reach. some friend of mine who works with databases says the entire backup is broken because it was configured to work with chapelaria.top, and since there’s no way to change all of the files manually, he gave up on that backup but i’m still trying to do SOMETHING to get SOME KIND OF INFO from that.

    as you may have noted i’m not an expert on databases at all, i barely understand the topic. Local by Flywheel includes adminer, which is a 1 PHP DATABASE manager. i chose the database “local” and then imported the entire SQL file BackWPup had made back then. later i try to replicate all of the login and database name and password details into the wordpress wp-config.php file with hopes of accessing and start readinf the old site it but i always, no matter what i do i will always get the message “error connecting to the database”

    if you need any more details about what i’ve been doing please let me know so i can provide you with all the info you need. i would be forever grateful if someone could at least orientate me on what could i possibly be doing wrong so i can for once start doing things that make sense to me. i appreciate it a lot to all of you in advance!

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  • happyAnt

    (@duongcuong96)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    @maxijabase
    As I understand, for now, on your new site, you get an error: “error connecting to the database”
    So I think you have config database infos in wp-config.php wrong ( this file is normally located in your web root ), try to edit it, find these line:

    define('DB_NAME', 'database-name');
define('DB_USER', 'database-username');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'database-password');

    you said you were successfully login to admirer, so you can try to change DB_USER to your username and DB_PASSWORD to your user password, DB_NAME equals the database name that you have imported the sql backup file into.

    Is that help you?

    happyAnt

    (@duongcuong96)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    @maxijabase
    since we haven’t heard back from you, I’m going to mark it as resolved.
    If you’re still having problems, feel free to let us know ;),

    Btw, If you find BackWPUp is useful for you, we would really appreciate if you leave a positive review and rating.
    This would encourage us to develop new free features and provide free support 😀
    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/plugin/backwpup/reviews/

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