Comments on: Moving wordpress site to another server

By: Setting up and Configuring a Local Wordpress Installation with Mod_Rewrite | David Merrick

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:08:39 +0000

[...] your site’s files into your local directory, export your database from your site (follow this guide), and import it locally and you shouldn’t have any problems. [...]

By: David Merrick

David Merrick — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:35:48 +0000

Thank you so much! I was doing this manually for the longest time and it was such a pain.

The only sticking point for me was step 2. My local server uses “IP.address/localsite/”, so I had to differentiate between the URLs and directory structures in the perl substitution statement:

“perl -pi -e ‘s/http\:\/\/mysite.local/http\:\/\/thelivesite.com/g’ mylocal_db_dump.sql”

“perl -pi -e ‘s/var\/www\/mysite.local/public_html\/thelivesite.com/g’ mylocal_db_dump.sql”

By: Xav.

Xav. — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:06:37 +0000

I’ve been facing this problem too but didn’t have time to find out a solution. The way you’re doing seems pretty flexible. Thanks !