Support For Lucky Tanuki clients
MySQL is available with all our hosting packages. For some of our older legacy accounts we may need log on to the server and manually activate it. However for most accounts you should be able to configure MySQL via the control panel. If you have any difficulties with this, let us know and we’ll set it up for you.
Before you begin to move your Wordpress site, read the following articles:
http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2013/04/08/moving-wordpress-website/ Read the section 'Uploading A WordPress Website From A Local To A Remote Installation'
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
There are a few steps to this upgrading the site
1. Backup and remove the old site
2. Upload the new site into the 'web' folder
3. Edit wp-config.php to match your mysql settings
4. Make sure the upload folder has the permissions '777' - you should be able to do this with decent ftp program like Filezilla
5. Using phpMyAdmin, import the wordpress database tables into your database
6. If this is done right you should be able to login
There are a couple of plugins to help with migrating. You may need to install these into the development site before uploading to the server.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-move/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-migrate-db/
