neilfarrell

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?

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?

Hey there,

Irish over here too!

You’ve got most of it right and in theory that will work, however that means you will have downtime for your current website.

I’d recommend you either build the site on localhost (WAMP or XAMPP) – loads of tutorials online to show you how to install those and get up and running. You can build the site locally on your machine then.

You can start transferring the domain to your name, you’ll have to request an auth code from the current host and add that code when moving provider.

Once you have the site ready and your hosting purchased, you can upload the site to the newly created hosting account. (I’d recommend Blacknight in Ireland). You’ll have to make some small edits in the wp-config.php file to make the site now point to the right urls but that’s all very straightforward and you can get lots of help on here if you’re stuck. I’d only recommend changing the nameservers at that point or you will have (as I said earlier) downtime on your current site.

Woocommerce is a great plugin for managing a small store. I’m assuming if you’re building the site yourself and you’re saying you want to keep costs low, it will be a small store. Stripe is a great provider and easily installed plugin for credit card payments on woocommerce.

Let me know if you have any other questions or need any further help.

Have you got the correct settings to connect to your database in your wp-config file? Are you installing from scratch with fresh wordpress files? The wp-config file would not have the correct settings to connect to your database

Have you set up an A record in your DNS manager to point to the subdomain? The web needs to know where your subdomain is stored.

I think you need to add a “DirectoryIndex index.html index.php” line to your .htaccess file. It’s possible your apache settings is set to display index.php as a preference over index.html

It’s a strange one I must say. I’ve never had an issue like that.

I haven’t installed sitepush in the same vhost, always in different vhosts but that shouldn’t be causing any issue, it’s still supposed to work, just not play nice with cache plugins.

The fact that it is reading the contents of the config file but not the db file in the same folder has me stumped. Have you tried replacing the contents of that file. I know one time I uploaded text into the db file but I had missed a couple of the first characters and it caused a problem until I rectified it.

After that, I’m afraid I am of no help. What I can say is though, it’s worth trying to get it working because it’s a great plugin which makes life very easy if you’ve lots of content/dev to update.

You should be able to see post revisions under the publish menu on the right. If it’s not there, there’s a good chance, it’s disabled