On the Move, Website Migrations Debunked

On The Move
Migrations Debunked
Jonathan Perlman - @jpurpleman
WPCampus 2017
http://jpurpleman.ca/

About me
• Canadian, eh! Montreal, Quebec
• Senior web developer at Dawson College
• Teacher at Dawson College’s CTD ( non-credit )
• WordCamp speaker
• Excel super-geek as per
Chris Lema
July 15, 2017WPCampus 2017 | https://www.jpurpleman.ca

Dawson College
• Nginx
• php-fpm
• MariaDB
• WordPress
• Drupal
• Moodle
• WeBWorK
• OpenEdX
• MediaWiki
• Git with Gitolite-admin

What’s covered…
• WordPress.com to self-hosted
• General overview
• One-time transfer
• Continuous migration
• DNS
• Check your site
• Resources

WordPress.com
to
Self-Hosted

WordPress.com

Export From WordPress.com

Import to WordPress.org

Post Import
• Theme
o Theme Directory – https://wordpress.org/theme
o Custom development ?
• Plugins
o Plugin Directory – https://wordpress.org/plugins
o JetPack
o Custom development ?

General Overview
Host to host

What are we moving?
Code
HTML, CSS,
JS, PHP
Media
Library
JPG, PNG,
DOC, PDF
Content SQL Database

Doing the migration
• Login to old host and download the WordPress site and
export MySQL database
• Login to new host and create a MySQL database
• Change wp-config.php locally within the WordPress
installation files
• Upload the WordPress site onto the new host and import
MySQL database
• Change Site URL and Site Path within the database
• Change your hosts file and test the site
• Change the DNS and wait

Required Tools
• Command line ( SSH )
o tar, scp, sed
o vim
o wp-cli
• File Transfer Program
o FileZilla
• Database client
o phpMyAdmin
o HeidiSQL
• ( Windows only )
o Sequel Pro
• ( Mac only )

One-Time
Host to Host
Transfer

Doing the migration
• Login to old host and download the WordPress site and export
MySQL database
• Login to new host and create a MySQL database
• Change wp-config.php locally within the WordPress
installation files
• Upload the WordPress site onto the new host and import
MySQL database
• Change Site URL and Site Path within the database
• Change your hosts file
• Check your site on the new host for errors
• Change the DNS and wait

CPanel based server

Full CPanel backup
• homedir
o public_html
• mysql
o site7453prod.sql

FTP / SFTP
• Download the files from the web accessible area
o htdocs, public_html, www

Exporting via phpMyAdmin

Exporting via command line
• WP-CLI
o wp db export
• Raw MySQL Command
o mysqldump -u root -pPASSWORD
--complete-insert
--skip-extended-insert
--max_allowed_packet=512M
-B site_edu > site_edu.sql

Login to the database

Create a new database
1 Create a New
database
2 Give the database
a name
o Lowercase
o No spaces – use
underscores
o No special characters

Listing users having access

Creating a user

Change wp-config.php
• Edit wp-config.php with a text editor
• Change lines ~ 23, 26, 29 start with "define"
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', ‘');
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', ‘');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', '');
/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

Importing via phpMyAdmin

Importing via command line
• WP-CLI
o wp db import
• Raw MySQL Command
o mysql -u root -pPASSWORD
--max_allowed_packet=512M
site_edu < site_edu.sql

Serialized data

Change WordPress location
https://interconnectit.com/products/
search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/

Change WordPress location
Single Site Multi-Site
wp search-replace
‘http://example.com’
‘http://example.dev’
wp search-replace
--url=http://example.com
‘http://example.com’
‘http://example.dev’

Examples of Find / Replace
Find Replace
Path /home/siteedu7453/ /var/www/html/site.edu
Protocol
http://www.site.edu
http://site.edu
https://www.site.edu
Environment htttps://www.site.edu https://site.dev

Override your DNS
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/27350/
beginner-geek-how-to-edit-your-hosts-file/

Windows
• Using the Windows Logo use the Start Menu /
Screen and search for Notepad
• Right click Notepad and “Run as Administrator”
c:windowssystem32driversetchosts

Mac
• Use the app called GasMask from Clockwise
• Download
o http://clockwise.ee/
• Tutorial
o http://www.gilsmethod.com/how-to-edit-hosts-
files-in-mac-os-x-without-the-headaches

White screen of death?
• Update all plugins, themes, and WP core
• Check php version changes
• Deactivate all plugins and reactivate them one-by-one
• Deactivate the current theme - switch to 2017
• Reset permalinks
• Check .htaccess file – Compare against the codex
• index.html & index.php
• .maintenance

White screen of death?
• Modify wp-config.php - add:
o define(“WP_DEBUG”, true);
o define( “WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY”, true );
• Check the error log
o Accessible via STFP
o CPanel

Setting Name Servers

Setting DNS Records

Playing the waiting game

Transferring Via Plugins

Plugin comparison
Plugin Single Site vs Multisite Migrates what?
Duplicator
Single Site
Code
Media Library
Content
Backup Buddy
UpDraftPlus
Single Site
Multisite ( with Premium )
All-in-One WP
Migration
WP Migrate DB Pro
Single Site
Multisite
Media Library
Content
WP Site Sync

Duplicator

deliciousbrains.com

wpsitesync.com

Pros / Cons
Pros Cons
• Super user friendly
• Export site to the cloud
• Automates the process
• Finds and replaces
• Not multi-site friendly
• Timeouts on larger sites
• Can’t use CloudFlare
while duplicating
• May require changes to
.htaccess
• Files might need to go in
non-standard directories

Resources

Resources
• http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/
how-to-move-wordpress-to-a-new-host-or-server-
with-no-downtime/
• https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
• https://wordpress.org/support

Thank you! Questions? Survey!
https://2017.wpcampus.org/session-survey/424

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