on the move, website migrations debunked

On The MoveMigrations 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.comto

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?

CodeHTML, 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 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

installation files

MySQL database

• Change your hosts file

• Check your site on the new host for errors

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

MySQL database

installation files

MySQL database

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

MySQL database

installation files

MySQL database

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');

MySQL database

installation files

MySQL database

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

MySQL database

installation files

MySQL database

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

Protocolhttp://www.site.eduhttp://site.edu

https://www.site.edu

Environment htttps://www.site.edu https://site.dev

MySQL database

installation files

MySQL database

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:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

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

MySQL database

installation files

MySQL database

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

MySQL database

installation files

MySQL database

Setting Name Servers

Setting DNS Records

Playing the waiting game

Transferring Via Plugins

Plugin comparison

Plugin Single Site vs Multisite Migrates what?

Duplicator

Single SiteCode

Media Library

Content

Backup Buddy

UpDraftPlusSingle Site

Multisite ( with Premium )All-in-One WP

Migration

WP Migrate DB ProSingle SiteMultisite

Media Library

ContentWP 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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