This tutorial relates to migrating your WordPress files and database from a local installation to a web server.
This assumes you’ve installed WordPress locally using instantwp and that you’re moving to a web host like Blue Host with cPanel.
You can either:
- Watch a Slide Show or
- Watch a Video
Slide Show
Video
This method shows you how to change your site and WordPress url’s using the WP Migrate DB plugin before you export your database.
After changing your link url’s, its simply a matter of:
- zipping up your WordPress folder locally
- creating an addon domain in cPanel if needed
- uploading your files to your domains root directory on your web server
- creating a new database and editing the wp-config.php file with your new database connection details
- importing your database SQL file into your new database using phpMyAdmin
There’s different ways to move your files and database from your local setup to your web server.
If you don’t use a plugin to change your url’s, read this note.
Personally, i prefer to change them using the wp migrate db plugin before exporting the database and then use Notepad++ to check all links using the search, find and replace feature.
Useful Resources
- Here’s 4 ways to change your WordPress site url’s and avoid broken links.
- 3 ways to move WordPress from a local setup to a web server.
- A plugin for changing database url’s before migrating.
Question in reference to the slide show. Why would you use the notepad++ to do a “find and replace” after you have already changed the URL’s in the general setting? Isn’t that a waste of time? When you save the new general settings the database is already then updated before you export the sql file.
Thanks and great tutorials BTW
peace out,
Mike L.
Hey Mike. You wouldn’t need to do a find a replace if you use the plugin settings. Its just another way to do it if you don’t install the plugin.
What do you think of the plugin?
Cheers