{"id":156,"date":"2010-12-19T02:26:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T07:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/?p=156"},"modified":"2010-12-19T02:26:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T07:26:02","slug":"migrating-wordpress-and-the-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/2010\/12\/migrating-wordpress-and-the-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrating wordpress and the server"},"content":{"rendered":"

I migrated the site to a different server earlier this evening; let’s recap. Things in ”s are commands to be run.<\/p>\n

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  1. Log into your new server<\/li>\n
  2. ‘screen bash’ (in case your net drops)<\/li>\n
  3. ‘scp -R existing_website_name:~\/destinationfolder folder_to_be_copied’ (the new setup will be \/home\/yourname\/destinationfolder\/folder_to_be_copied)<\/li>\n
  4. hit ‘CTRL-A d’ (detach screen)<\/li>\n
  5. hang out on IRC while your data transfers, check in every once in a while<\/li>\n
  6. Next up is backing up the existing database – ssh into your existing server, then dump your database using ‘mysqldump -h hostname -u username -p databasename | bzip2 -c > dump.bz2’<\/li>\n
  7. exit ssh and ‘scp existing_website:~\/path_to_dump\/dump.bz2 dump.bz2’<\/li>\n
  8. log into mysql, then create your wordpress db user and your wordpress db, and then grant necessary privileges<\/li>\n
  9. log out of mysql, and extract your database dump, then restore it by calling ‘mysql -h hostname -u username -p databasename < dump'<\/li>\n
  10. change your wordpress directory’s ownership to the user who runs the webserver – probably www-data, by using ‘chown -R www-data directory’<\/li>\n
  11. test everything out, make sure your new site is operating the way you’d expect<\/li>\n
  12. change over your zonefiles to update your DNS.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In the middle of this, I had some extra steps:<\/p>\n

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    1. Get frustrated that I don’t have ‘interactive autocomplete’ turned on. In order to make screen autocomplete when I type ‘screen -r’, I have to enable bash_completion. I just copied a friend’s .bashrc and .bash_profile to make this work — I love having smart friends. The relevant lines in each of them are:<\/li>\n

      .bash_profile: <\/p>\n

      # include .bashrc if it exists\r\nif [ -f ~\/.bashrc ]; then\r\n    . ~\/.bashrc\r\nfi<\/pre>\n
      .bashrc:<\/p>\n
      # enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable\r\n# this, if it's already enabled in \/etc\/bash.bashrc and \/etc\/profile\r\n# sources \/etc\/bash.bashrc).\r\nif [ -f \/etc\/bash_completion ]; then\r\n    . \/etc\/bash_completion\r\nfi<\/pre>\n
    2. screen -r <TAB> to reattach my last screen session<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      And it’s all working well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
      I migrated the site to a different server earlier this evening; let’s recap. Things in ”s are commands to be run. Log into your new server ‘screen bash’ (in case your net drops) ‘scp -R existing_website_name:~\/destinationfolder folder_to_be_copied’ (the new setup will be \/home\/yourname\/destinationfolder\/folder_to_be_copied) hit ‘CTRL-A d’ (detach screen) hang out on IRC while your data […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}