Restore a WordPress Installation from 3rd party backup

jennifer ettia

• April 21, 2016 21:44

Hello I am looking for information on how to install a full wordpress backup file to a new cpanel both on my reseller server. Can I do this through cpanel? How do I make sure the URLs get updated too?

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  cPanelMichael

  • April 22, 2016 15:48

  Hello :) Could you elaborate on how the WordPress contents were backed up? Did it happen through a plugin, or manually? Thank you.

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  MrL22

  • April 22, 2016 16:02

  Hello Jennifer, There is no single easy way to do this but here are some steps for you. 1. Create the cpanel account. 2. in cPanel - setup a mysql database, user and assign the user to the database. 3. Open the .sql dump file in a decent plain text editor and search/replace the old server path with your new path (may be something like /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs to /home/mysite/public_html) 4. Do the same for the website url if the address is changing (myoldsite.com to mysite.com) 5. Open phpmyadmin in cPanel and import the new (search/replaced) sql dump file. 6. Extract the tar.gz or upload the wordpress files to the public_html folder. 7. open the wp-config.php in a text editor and ensure that the database host is localhost and username/password/database are correct with your new settings. 8. Hopefully the site will work, unless you need to do soemthing with DNS. Richard

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  jennifer ettia

  • April 23, 2016 07:44

  Hello :) Could you elaborate on how the WordPress contents were backed up? Did it happen through a plugin, or manually? Thank you.

  
  They were downloaded through to my computer using a plugin called All-in-one-wp-migration

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  cPanelMichael

  • May 04, 2016 19:01

  They were downloaded through to my computer using a plugin called All-in-one-wp-migration

  
  You can follow the import instructions if you prefer to use this plugin: All-in-One WP Migration " WordPress Plugins Thank you.

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