Sekoyen’s

Hellow world again!

Finally, today, I got my own domain. Yeah, neyokes.com. Ordered it last night, and today it is ready.

Transfer process from my old temporary domain is quite a mess. I thought it would be easier to transfer from wordpress to wordpress, but unfortunately it isn’t. May be I couldn’t find the right transfer wordpress to wordpress codec on the internet. Hmm.. So I just did it my own way.

This is how I did it.

Firstly, I created a database on the new domain, using the same name as the old name. If the prefix of the db like this “olddomain_” so the database wil be named “olddomain_dbname”. But in the new domain, the name will be “newdomain_dbname”. Actually, it does not give any problem. It will only take the “dbname” name.

Then I Installed Wordpress, like usual. Configured it the same as the configuration on the old domain, until I can find the “Hello World” post.

Ok, then I downloaded the backup of “dbname” using the backup utility on cpanel from the old domain. Restored it into the new domain, using the same utility on cpanel.

When I restored the old database into the new database, all the new settings were lost, including the password. So, it is important that the old and the new wordpress to have the same password.

Then I opened phpmyadmin > dbname > wp_options. Modified the “site_url” to the new domain url and save.

Login into wordpress, went to options and configured the “Blog address (URI)” to the new address.

I have made some modification on the template and uploaded some files in the wp-upload directory. So, I make a backup of the old site, extract only wp-content directory and upload it to the new domain.

That’s all. Now my blog is back online in the new domain! 

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