Godaddy informed me about a month ago that they are upgrading their servers resulting in me having to migrate all my site manually myself. I've finally finished it during a trip to Boston with my wife.<\/p>\n
Procedures:<\/p>\n
Contacted Godaddy, had them create my new account on new host. They emailed me some basic steps, which are not sufficient and I had to google.<\/p>\n
In Godaddy File Manager:
\n- zipped all the files in chunks. Download them to my PC.
\n- Backup mysql files, I have two databases, one of which is probably useless (from older backup), WordPress only uses one 1 database. But I backed up both anyway.
\n- Cancel Old Hosting account via Web Hosting -> Options -> Cancel.<\/p>\n
Waited for 1 full day, then new account finally shows nycphantom.com is available under setup.<\/p>\n
Uploaded all zipped files. Extract them in Godaddy's File Manager.<\/p>\n
Attempted to use the new cPanel's database features (phpMyAdmin) to import my database (first create the exact same database name via MySQL Database Wizard with username\/password), Failed due to importing time out. File too large to import (>140MB), even though it may have completed uploading.<\/p>\n
So I deleted the database\/username I created via the above method. And approach the issue via SSH.<\/p>\n
Uploaded my sql file to server.<\/p>\n
Enable SSH in cPanel -> SSH ACCESS<\/p>\n
Logged into SSH, webhosting ip is the host. Godaddy username\/password.<\/p>\n
CD to the folder where my uploaded sql file resides.<\/p>\n
Typed<\/a>:\u00a0mysql -p -u newusername newdatabase < dbname.sql Encountered another problem when loading WP. Followed the error trail and edited wp-config.php in my WP journal folder: I changed the username to godaddy's username and the HOST to localhost, which is the new cPanel standard in Godaddy.<\/p>\n And it works now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Godaddy informed me about a month ago that they are upgrading their servers resulting in me having to migrate all my site manually myself. I've finally finished it during a trip to Boston with my wife. Procedures: Contacted Godaddy, had … Continue reading
\nWhere I had to make sure the username matches the godaddy account, I think.<\/p>\n