To migrate an installation of Site Wrangler and the websites installed on it to a new instance, follow this guide. This guide assumes you are using Deban Linux. Substitute your distribution’s installation commands where applicable. THIS GUIDE ASSUMES YOU ARE MOVING TO AN EMPTY SERVER! THE COMMANDS HERE MAY OVERWRITE IMPORTANT DATA IF YOU MIGRATE…
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The first thing to do when migrating a WordPress site is to identify everything that needs to be migrated. We will need to copy the site files, and the database, then test the site on the Site Wrangler server before updating the DNS to point to our Site Wrangler server. Create a New User First…
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You will need to open a root terminal on the server and a native terminal on your Linux/Mac. Consult the documentation from your service provider on getting initial root access. Then run this command in your mac/linux terminal as the local user you will be using to run ssh: mkdir -p ~/.ssh; if [ !…
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The server’s files can be mounted to your local filesystem using SSHFS. This allows you to use any text/file editor on your computer to modify files and allows you to drag and drop files to and from the server. Before you begin, you should have already added your local user’s SSH key each user on…
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