I am changing hosting + domain name for my WordPress site. For example now if its hosted on 201.0.0.1/mysite and now I want to upload it to mysite.com. This is what I did
- exported database from my cpanel
- got all files from server using filezilla (
public_htmlfolder that has WordPress root folder as well) - set permalinks option to default and exported all content from existing site.
- now planning to create a new database, setup wp-config.php and replace all files in public_html files.
My question is after doing all this will I face any issues regarding page / posts or any other links means it may not happen that I may get some broken links after doing all this. Is there any extra step required with all this mentioned above or is it okay?
You have to follow the below steps:
1) First export the sql file.
2) Open downloaded sql file and replace old url with new url like “//www.test.com” replace it with “//www.test2.com”.
3) Replace all old paths and save it.
4) upload that sql file in your new site
That’s it!