COAP:COAP-3110/week6

Week 6 learning goals

• Migrating from a development server to a hosting company
• The REST protocol

Monday

In order to migrate you will have to:

• copy all the WordPress files using an FTP or SFTP client or a WebClient (depending on the hosting company)
• dump the whole database to a *.zip file
• Create a copy of the wp-config.php file and edit some settings

On the new host

• Create a new database
• Write down its full name, database user name, database user password, machine name
• Edit config.php, the replace your original wp-config.php file by this new version

Example: