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Move your site to Webstribe

A WordPress site is two things: its files and its database. You copy both, connect them, then point your domain. Keep your old hosting running until the site works here.

Does your old host use cPanel too? Open a ticket before you start. A full cPanel backup can sometimes be restored in one go, and we will tell you whether yours can.

1. Copy everything from your old host

  • Download the site folder, the one that holds wp-config.php, as a zip file.
  • Open phpMyAdmin, select the site’s database, click Export and save the .sql file.

2. Set it up on Webstribe

  1. In cPanel, open MySQL Database Wizard. Create a database and a user, and give the user all privileges. Write down the three names and the password.
  2. Open phpMyAdmin, select the new database, click Import and upload your .sql file.
  3. Open File Manager, go to public_html, upload the zip file and extract it there.
  4. Edit wp-config.php. Change DB_NAME, DB_USER and DB_PASSWORD to the new values. Leave DB_HOST as localhost.

3. Switch your domain

Change your nameservers as shown in point your domain. Once the site loads from us and https works, you can cancel the old hosting.

Zip too big to upload, or an error on the site? Email [email protected] with your domain and where the site is hosted now.