How-to move your WordPress site to DomainsFoundry from another host

If your WordPress site is hosted with another host then it’s possible to transfer your WordPress site. Use the steps below to migrate your WordPress files and database to your new DomainsFoundry WordPress hosting.

Transfer your WordPress Files

  1. Use your old web host’s control panel to create a .ZIP archive of all your website files. Download the .zip file to your PC or Mac.
  2. Login to your DomainsFoundry web hosting control panel and open File Manager.
  3. Upload your .zip file to your public_html folder.
  4. After it has upload, select your .zip file and click Extract

WordPress Database

  1. Login to your old web host’s control panel
  2. Look for a link to a database management tool phpMyAdmin
  3. Use phpMyAdmin to export your database into a file you can download.
  4. Login to your DomainsFoundry web hosting control panel.
  5. Create a new database and database user using our MySQL Database Wizard. Take a note of the database name, database user and database password you have created for later.
  6. Open phpMyAdmin
  7. Import your WordPress database file you saved earlier.

Update wp-config.php

  1. Login to your DomainsFoundry web hosting control panel.
  2. Click File Manager
  3. Open public_html
  4. Select wp-config.php and click Edit
  5. Find the following:
    define('DB_NAME', 'myuser_database');
define('DB_USER', 'myuser_dbuser');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'bR6}*xh36^cre86g');
  6. Change these entries to use your new database name, database user and database password you created earlier.
  7. Click Save.

Note: If you do not have access to your WordPress files or database then you will need to contact your previous hosting company for support.