Tutorials On Web

Being a wordpress lover, I always look for latest development in this superb content management system for various possibilities to build a website with various features. Nowadays i am working much on its Multisite features (Damn i love them) allowing me to unleash all the wordpress capabilities within it. Hence making it a most powerful system.

Buddypress is also one of the best social networking platform which is evolved very well over time (Poor on Support). These two systems together can rock the world in any kind of website.

Well, Today we will discuss more on a common problem that is moving WordPress-MS from your local machine to live server i.e. your domainname.com server. This entire procedure is called as “Domain Transferring”. I had seen many threads in the forums asking how to successfully move WordPress-MS to live server for a website which is having large number of blogs. So here we go guys, Follow the steps carefully and you can have your multisite moved to any domain just in 15 minutes.

If you are looking to move a regular site from domain1 to domain2. Please visit the following url it is explained well over there.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

Now, We will see how you move your website from localhost to a live server doamain name.

1. TAKE A FILE & DATABASE BACKUP!
2. Transfer all web files and the the database to the new server
3. wp-config.php – Open your config file and update the database connection with some other fields:

/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘database name here…’);

/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘your database user name here…’);

/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘your database password here…’);

/** MySQL hostname */
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘your database hostname here…’);

$base = ‘/’;

define( ‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘mydomain.com’ );

define( ‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/’ );

4. .htaccess – Open your .htaccess file and confirm or update the line: RewriteBase /
5. Login to your PHPMyAdmin and open the database
6. Open table ‘wp_options’ and adjust the fields ‘site_url’ and ‘home’
7. Open table ‘wp_options’ and adjust the fields ‘site_url’ and ‘home’
8. Open table ‘wp_site’ and adjust the domain and path
9. Open table ‘wp_sitemeta’ and adjust the field ‘site_url’
10. WordPress Multisite stores the standard WordPress tables for each blog with the incrementing prefix e.g. wp_1_ , wp_2_, wp_3_ … so you need to open up the ‘wp_*_options’ table for each and adjust the fields ‘site_url’ and ‘home’
11. TAKE A DATABASE BACKUP!
12. We then need to run a SQL command to update the GUID for each of the blogs incrementing the table as before:

UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = REPLACE (guid,’http://localhost.localdomain’,'http://yourdomainname.com’);

13. Repeat the above and replace ‘guid’ with ‘post_content’.
14. Now Run your site. It must not give you any major error.

If there are any errors like :

1. Unable to establish Database connection : you must be doing something wrong with your database connsetions. Check your database settings in wp-config.php
2. If the site shows blank screen : Your all the template files must not be moved to the server. Check all theme files are being present in the server and are activated to be displayed on the website.

If there are any other issues facing by you then please post a comment below so that we can tackle that issue well together.

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