Migrate website to a new domain name

Hi!
I've got a website on my server with ispconfig 3.1 and i want to migrate this website to a new server(with ispconfig 3.1) and change the domain name.

How can i do that???

Thanks,

 

Hello @forethan ,

That depends on what website you have.
Did you create the website yourself, is it Wordpress, or something else.....

 

Yes i've got wordpress so i've downloaded a backup(db + cms) in my ftp account with the isp config backup button.

 

First you need to disable all the Wordpress plugins in the admin section.
Download the Wordpress site and a backup for the WP database.
Make sure the plugins are also disabled in the WP database and change the website URL in the database to the new URL.
Upload the WP site backup and import the database, also edit the wp-config.php to enter the new database info.
Should work like that.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress should probably help.

 

Thanks a lot man!
Can i do that :
After disable all the plugin, download "www"folder from ftp?
Go to my site/phpmyadmin, change the url and download the wp database?
Is it good or i must download a bakup from ispconfig?

Which one is better?

 

No you can download a copy of the folders/files from FTP.
Go to phpmyadmin, download a DB backup, change the URL (and disable the WP plugins in the DB if needed).

 

So i don't need to disable all the plugin if i do that?

 

Yes you need to disable all plugins in WP admin section and make sure they are also disabled in the WP DB.

 

Thanks, it worked perfectly except that i must reconfigure the website menus(back to original theme menu if you know why?).
I've used this script to convert all url : https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/
Because the first attempt didn't works.