Mar 312008
 

As capacity of my current hosting provider not sufficient for me I have to move to other house hosting provider, after read a lot of review of hosting company I decide to choose Hostmonster.

Their support is outstanding, I pick 1 year contract in hostmonster and using paypal as payment gateway without reveal my credit card information to hostmonster. Of course hostmonster support credit card but I have my own way icon smile Moving Wordpress Blog to new host

My steps after get account in hostmonster are :

Steps taken in old hosting

1. Request for shell access. I have shell access in my old hosting place. Its more fun to use shell as I utilize provider bandwidth.

2. Backup database and compress all wordpress blog into single tar.gz file.

3. Transfer the compression file to my hostmonster account.

Steps taken in hostmonster account :

1. Create domain or add new domain addon (in case you have multiple domain in single account)

2. Create new database account, database user and assign that user to database.

3. Extract files from old hosting account to folder.

4. Edit wp-config.php, adjust variable according to steps 2.

5. Import database to system.

6. Done, ready to test.

In next post I’ll give screnshot of migration process.

Happy moving time icon smile Moving Wordpress Blog to new host

Mar 232008
 

Congratulation on your hosting account, finally you have hosting account with your own domain. Now you ready to install wordpress blog engine in your hosting account.

Some common way to get wordpress installed are :

  1. Using installer, ex : fantastico
  2. Download wordpress files from wordpress.org either in tar.gz or .zip format, unzip it and upload it to server.

Now, I’ll show you how to use your shell account to install wordpress blog in quick and easy way icon smile Install wordpress blog : shell way

The concept is same as number 2 use : I use windows xp as basis.

1. Login to your account using shell client, for example : putty

2. Choose one that suitable for your windows type.

putty Install wordpress blog : shell way

3. Double click putty.exe to open connection window.

putty2 Install wordpress blog : shell way

Enter hostname or ip address of your hosting and click Open to start.

putty3 Install wordpress blog : shell way

It’s fine, first time visit A pop up window will appear, just click ‘Yes’.

putty4 Install wordpress blog : shell way

3. Enter your login information. Username and password.

login as: rasy1000

rasy1000@hostingformula.info’s password:
Last login: Sun Mar 23 22:27:10 2008 from home.hostingformula.info

[rasy1000@wide ~]$

4. Find out real download location of wordpress file. By right click on icon.

At the moment of writing two location exact url are :

  • http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
  • http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

putty6 Install wordpress blog : shell way
5. Now back to our $ prompt.

Download wordpress file from shell, just type this command.

[rasy1000@wide public_html]$ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
–22:38:12– http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
=> `latest.tar.gz’
Resolving wordpress.org… 72.233.56.139, 72.233.56.138
Connecting to wordpress.org|72.233.56.139|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/x-gzip]

[ <=> ] 884,898 2.93M/s

22:38:12 (2.92 MB/s) – `latest.tar.gz’ saved [884898]

Very fast icon smile Install wordpress blog : shell way

6. Unzip/ extract the file.

For latest.tar.gz file just use this command :

[rasy1000@wide public_html]$ tar xvzf latest.tar.gz

……………………….

……………………….

wordpress/wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.gif
wordpress/wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.php
wordpress/wp-content/plugins/hello.php
[ras10000@wide public_html]$

For latest.zip just use this command : download followed by extract.

[rasy1000@wide public_html]$ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
–23:18:09– http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
=> `latest.zip’
Resolving wordpress.org… 72.233.56.139, 72.233.56.138
Connecting to wordpress.org|72.233.56.139|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/zip]

[ <=> ] 1,066,640 –.–K/s

23:18:10 (10.28 MB/s) – `latest.zip’ saved [1066640]

[ras10000@wide public_html]$ unzip latest.zip

……………………………..

…………………………………

inflating: wordpress/wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.gif
inflating: wordpress/wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.php
inflating: wordpress/wp-content/plugins/hello.php
[ras10000@wide public_html]$

Done.

I can watch movie and replicate the job for other domain.

Next posting I’ll show how to create database using shell.

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