I think I got to the wp login, by clicking on an Edit link, but when I try to go to :
http://nburmandesign.com/blog/wp-admin/
I get this error message:
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Warning: main(/home/nburmand/public_html/blog/wp-includes/vars.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/nburmand/public_html/blog/wp-settings.php on line 227
Warning: main(/home/nburmand/public_html/blog/wp-includes/vars.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/nburmand/public_html/blog/wp-settings.php on line 227
Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/nburmand/public_html/blog/wp-includes/vars.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/php4/lib/php:/usr/local/php4/lib/php’) in /home/nburmand/public_html/blog/wp-settings.php on line 227
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What did I do? !!!
failed to open stream:
That one always refers to missing files/folders.
This file is NOT there:
…blog/wp-includes/vars.php
Did you read by any chance the documentation before mi=oving servers?
Moving_WordPress
Moshu – thanks for the link. No I havent checked that page – but I will 😀
(crossing fingers)
~Nick
I followed this part of the instructions:
If You Don’t Care If Your Old Blog Works
Download a copy of the main wordpress files from your OLD blog to your hard drive and edit wp-config.php to suit the new server.
the password appears to be encrypted, or is it meant to be gobbledy gook? Is it possible to change that, because that is not a password I have ever typed anywhere!
Go back to your OLD blog and go to options and change the url (both of them) to that of your new site.
The new url is the same as the old one, no changes there
Again, download your database (but keep the old one just in case), upload this new database and the copy of the wordpress core files with the edited wp-config.php to your new server. Thats it!
I copied the entire /blog folder over, and did a PhpMyAdmin restore with the backed up wrdp1 database. Is that it?
the password appears to be encrypted
You mean in the wp-config.php file?
Never seen anything like that!
Be aware, that is the password for the database user to access the database – usually, you DON’T type that anywhere because you don’t need it!
Is that it
Does it work?
no, it doesn’t. I’m really at my wit’s end.
I tried removing the WP installation and starting again.
AFAIK, I have the databases backed up and all the blog files> I’m just not sure in which order I should install WP on the new server. Do I use Backup Restore in Cpanel to restore, or PhpMyAdmin, or MySQL? Should I have to change the permissions if I ftp the new files over?
I’m really at a loss here.
You do not FTP new files, but the old ones!
You use the phpmyadmin.
You shouldn’t have installed anything in the new location: or if you did, it has to be the same version as the old one for the DB compatibility. After the move you can do an upgrade.
Ok! I deleted the old install, ftp’d the OLD files (!) back to the server and tried to import the database using phpmyadmin. I then get this error, each time –
Error
SQL query:
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— Table structure for table wp_bad_behavior
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DROP TABLE IF EXISTS wp_bad_behavior ;
MySQL said:
#1046 – No database selected
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Man, you shouldn’t export/import the BB tables. They just make your exp/imp file big. (If you reinstall the plugin in the new location, it will create its own database)
Can you just get another database backup (export) from the old location? And exporting the data+structure only for the WP tables?
i tried doing that, but my host has deleted the old files. I guess I’m SOL. Time to build another blog 🙂
