John Connor

Thanks Steve! Your suggestion inadvertently helped me in the end. I used WinSCP to access my old site’s ‘/var/www/html’ folder in order to copy the above tool into that folder.

While doing so, I realised that I could just update the ‘wp-config.php’ file to point to my AWS’ instance’s IP address (I also edited the theme’s ‘functions.php’ file in case) according to the instructions here: https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Changing_The_Site_URL

I then restarted my old instance and navigated to ‘http://<old IP>/wp-admin’ and logged into the old site with no problems.

Thanks for helping me on my way 🙂

@greiz Not my first choice – total database noob. May have to call on a few favours from database-familiar friends though if a simpler solution (from my POV) can’t be found 🙂

Thanks!