Brian Padgett's picture

Hi,

First of all I love the Turnkey products. I am trying to use either the Wordpress Appliance or the LAMP Appliance to host my wordpress site. I have tried migrating my database manualy using instructions here and also BackupBuddy from here. I have not been able to get it to work successfully. I am actually migrating from Godaddy. Can anyone suggest the best method or better solution?

Thanks

frostbyte5014

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Jeremy Davis's picture

Just having a quick look over the (manual) instructions you link to should work. Although some of the import steps will probably not be required.

I haven't done it so you may need to make minor modifications.

To start with if you use the TKL WordPress appliance you shouldn't need to make a new database, just overwirte the default one with your data. I think TKL WordPres has phpMyAdmin installed so you should be able to use that to import your database. I don't think you'll need to change the WordPress config if you do it that way.

Give me a few more details regarding your problems/errors and perhaps I can help.

Brian Padgett's picture

I finally got it to work. My problem was that I needed to edit the write permisions. Took me a little while to figure out how to do that. Once I made those changes, BackupBuddy did it's magic. It is working great now. Now I'm looking for an email solution. May take a look at Zimbra. Wonder if an Open-Exchange appliance is in the near future?

Kind Regards,

frostbyte5014

Jeremy Davis's picture

Log in using your root password and IIRC you'll find it under "privileges".

Jeremy Davis's picture

In fact I'd probably do both. First chown to the webserver user (www-data) then chmod to something like 755 and see how you go. That should solve your issues.

Jeremy Davis's picture

To recursively apply permissions you need to use the -R switch.

Also FWIW IMO changing the ownership to www-data (the webserver user account) is probably better than setting 777 (read/write/execute for anyone).

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