Move Your Blogger Blog to WordPress: Getting Content on a New Host - Preparing for uploading
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Before you prepare the MySQL database and files to be uploaded to your new web host, make sure all of the following items check out:
- All posts are working as you planned.
- You have selected a final theme with all changes made to it.
- All images are working.
- All onsite work (including SEO work) is done.
- All plugins needed by WordPress work as you wish them to and all of your desired site features are activated.
When all of the above things are done, follow these steps:
- Log in to http://localhost/phpmyadmin.
- Select the WordPress database containing your post and settings.
- Go to wp_options table and click the browse button.
- Look for the following "option name" and change its value:
"Site URL" and "Home": Change from http://localhost/coolalieninthesky to http://www.coolalieninthesky.com/
Upload path: C:xampphtdocscoolalieninthesky/wp-content/uploads to /home/www/coolalieninthesky.com/wp-content/uploads
The part highlighted in red varies from one hosting company to another; this is the root path. To learn it, upload a PHP script to the root directory of your website, name it rootpath.php and make sure it contains this code:
<?php
echo $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'];
?>
Open it in your browser: http://www.coolalieninthesky.com/rootpath.php, and then you should see the path of your root directory.
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