Title: Problems Upon Changing Host
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problems Upon Changing Host

 *  [thevor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thevor/)
 * (@thevor)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-upon-changing-host/)
 * I’m trying to move my blog from an old host to godaddy. The blog is not viewable
   on the old host so I can’t determine the version of wordpress. I uploaded my 
   content and imported the database. When I try to access the blog on the new host,
   I get this…
 *     ```
       Warning: fopen(/home/chuisano/public_html/ehm/wp-content/backup/.htaccess) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/e/x/p/expres12/html/ehm/wp-content/plugins/backupwordpress/functions.php  on line 377
       Cannot open file (/home/chuisano/public_html/ehm/wp-content/backup/.htaccess)
       Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/content/e/x/p/expres12/html/ehm/wp-content/plugins/backupwordpress/functions.php on line 381
       Cannot write to file (/home/chuisano/public_html/ehm/wp-content/backup/.htaccess)
       Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/content/e/x/p/expres12/html/ehm/wp-content/plugins/backupwordpress/functions.php on line 385
   
       Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/e/x/p/expres12/html/ehm/wp-content/plugins/backupwordpress/functions.php:377) in /home/content/e/x/p/expres12/html/ehm/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 694
       ```
   
 * The blog is located at [http://www.mortgageguyblog.com](http://www.mortgageguyblog.com).
   Any guidance is appreciated. I’m a little rusty so please go easy… TIA

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 *  [PJ Brunet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knowingart_com/)
 * (@knowingart_com)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-upon-changing-host/#post-1545127)
 * I thought Godaddy was a registrar.
 *  [Rena](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peacearena/)
 * (@peacearena)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-upon-changing-host/#post-1545131)
 * Well, first, I strongly discourage the use of GoDaddy (a registrar and hosting
   service) as a host. I had a WP install there and could not get into my database,
   then when I tried to move it elsewhere, could not download my files. It was a
   huge headache.
 * Make sure your files/directories that need to be writeable, are writeable, that.
   htaccess is present and correct and the site url and address in your database
   are updated.
 *  Thread Starter [thevor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thevor/)
 * (@thevor)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-upon-changing-host/#post-1545138)
 * In the database, is this the only place I need to change the url?
 * `(1, 0, 'siteurl', 'http://mortgageguyblog.com/ehm', 'yes'),`
 * Or are there other places that need to be changed as well.
 * BTW, thanks for the replies.
 *  [PJ Brunet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knowingart_com/)
 * (@knowingart_com)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-upon-changing-host/#post-1545141)
 * Peacearena as a good point.
 * I highly recommend you find a host that allows external MySQL connections! Makes
   moving to another host so much easier.

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