flipdivas guide to easy blog transfers

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FlipDiva’s Guide to Quick and Easy Blog Transfers written by: FlipDiva

©Copyright 2009 FlipDiva BlogsbyFlipDiva.com

FlipDiva’s Guide to Quick and Easy Blog Transfers

Eight Simple Steps and It’s

Cocktail Time!

By FlipDiva

http://www.blogsbyflipdiva.com/






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Resell Rights License Documentation

[NO] You Cannot Resell This Product To Your Customers At Any Price.

[YES] You May Add This Product Within A Paid Membership Site.

[YES] You May Package This Product And Sell With Other Products.

[YES] You May Give This Product Away For Free.

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[NO] You May Resell Private Label Rights To This Product.





Table of Contents

Legal Disclaimers ..................................................................................................................... 2

Resell Rights License Documentation ...................................................................................... 3Table of Contents...................................................................................................................... 4

Step 1 – Unzip Your Folder and Look Inside........................................................................... 6Step 2 – Install Wordpress ........................................................................................................ 9

Step 3 - Import Your Database ............................................................................................... 19

Step 4 – Changing the Database Options to Your Domain Name.......................................... 23Step 5 – Upload the Files to Your Server ............................................................................... 27

Step 5 – Login to Your New Blog for the First Time............................................................. 29

Step 6 – Add Your New Username......................................................................................... 30Step 7 – Delete the User that Came With Your Blog ............................................................. 32

Step 8 – Login to Your New Blog and Finalize Your Settings .............................................. 33

What If I Want to Transfer My Blog to Someone Else??....................................................... 34





Introduction

Ok, here’s the dilemma. You’ve just bought a blog over on Flippa, or maybe it was

on the Warrior Forum. Or you could have bought it from Beamer over at

97DollareBooks - or even from me! It doesn’t matter where it came from, because

now all you have is a zipped up file and you don’t know what in the heck to do with

it.

Nice… There it sits on your desktop, teasing you. You thought someone – maybe

the good fairy – was going to tiptoe onto your computer while you weren’t looking

and install it for you, didn’t you? Wrong! You have to do it.

Now here’s the thing. I decided it was time for someone to explain the easiest and

fastest way possible to transfer blogs, because you know me, I’m always buying

this blog, selling that blog, that’s why everybody started calling me FlipDiva!

So let’s do this together, and I’ll show you the easy way to get that shiny new blog

installed onto your cPanel, and up and running.

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Step 1 – Unzip Your Folder and Look Inside

The first thing you have to do is unzip that folder. Now I’m assuming that you have

either WinZip on your computer, or you’ve downloaded 7-Zip ( a nice little freebie –

I love free things!). So all you have to do is right click on the folder, and unzip it

into a new folder, preferably called the same name.

So, for our example, you’ve received a folder called Martinis.zip. The seller has sent

you instructions telling you that the username is barshake, and the password is

flipdiva44. You need to unzip the folder called Martinis.zip into a folder called

Martinis.

With me so far?

http://www.7-zip.org/

http://www.7-zip.org/





Now let’s peek inside the folder, and this is what you’ll see:

That’s all we have to do with that folder right now, just unzip it, but make sure that

you know exactly where it is – you’re going to need the location when we upload

that database and those files. Now let’s talk about what is in the folder.

The wp-content folder contains all of your theme and plugin folders and files. The

wp-config file will contain the database information, should you ever need it, which

you usually don’t. But some people prefer to install blogs a slightly different way

than I’m going to show you, so they do need that information. The .htaccess file is

what tells Wordpress where to go find the files and the database, and the file called

wrdp1.sql.gz is a zipped up sql database.





For you non-techies, the database is what holds all of the content itself, the name of

the blog, the posts, what’s in your widgets, etc. If you’ve had a blog transferred to

you from someone who had addon domains, the database may have a different

number, or a different name altogether. It could be called johnny.sql.gz, it doesn’t

matter what it’s called, because we’re going to create our own database and just

import this database.

No no, don’t walk away – that’s all the tech stuff you’re really going to need to

know. I just want you to know what a database is really for. I’ll show you exactly

what you need to do with it.





Step 2 – Install Wordpress

Now I’m going to make the assumption that you’ve already purchased your domain

name, and you have your nameservers pointed to your host, ok? If you haven’t

done that part yet, you have to do it now. I’m not going to tell you how to do that,

because I know that you’re very bright, and telling you that part all over again

would bore you to tears. But just in case you need to do that part, I personally use

Dynadot.

I will also tell you that I definitely recommend Hostgator hosting – so if you haven’t

purchased your hosting plan yet, Click Here.

http://www.blogsbyflipdiva.com/go/dynadot.php

http://www.blogsbyflipdiva.com/go/gator.php


http://www.blogsbyflipdiva.com/go/dynadot.php





So now, what you’re going to do is log into the cPanel of your domain. If you’ve

never ever done this before, you will have received a letter from your hosting

company with your ip address. It will contain information something like this:

Your sites IP address:

7x.5x.8x.2

Your name servers:

ns1x.hostgator.com

ns1x.hostgator.com

Until your DNS has been changed and resolves to our nameservers, you can access

your cPanel at:

http://gatorxx.hostgator.com/cpanel

You can view your site before the DNS has been resolved at:

http://gatorxx.hostgator.com/~flipdiva/

For those of you who are scratching your heads, none of the above is “real”

information – so don’t even try! It’s just an example of information that your

welcome letter will contain.

http://ns2143.hostgator.com/












Now, back to logging on to your domain. If you’re using an account with Addon

Domains, it will be your maindomainname.com/cpanel. If you have an account such

as a Reseller, it will be yournewdomain.com/cpanel – so let’s go do that. Hint: You

can always login to your cPanel using your ip address and your username and

password – did you know that? It would look like http://7x.5x.8x.2/cpanel – then

just enter your username and password!

I’m not going to go over adding your domain as an addon, because if you have that

type of account, or that’s how you’re using this account, you already know how to

add the addon domain by clicking on Addon Domains and simply adding it.





So here’s what the cPanel looks like, and you’re going to click on Fantastico.





Now you’ll see a blank screen, and on the left you’ll see some different options. I

want you to find Wordpress – if you don’t have Hostgator hosting, which is what I

use and recommend, it might look slightly different.







Now you’re going to click on New Installation!





For our example, you’ve purchased a domain name called shaken-notstirred.com,

and your username is shakenn, and your password is flipdiva44. Fill in the correct

information, just like you see below, and then click that big Install Button. Make

sure that you leave the Install in Directory blank, unless you have a reason to want

to install Wordpress in another directory, such as a subdirectory.





Now just click Finish Installation!





See how easy that was? You’re almost finished with Step 2! Click on Back to

Wordpress Overview…





The last thing you have to do is go back to your Control Panel, and then we’ll go do

something that’s really fun!





Step 3 - Import Your Database

Now for you non-techies out there, I’m going to make this as easy as mixing up a

good dry Martini. Maybe you should go do that part first…. LOL – Just kidding!

Now we’re back at our cPanel main page, and we’re going to select phpMyAdmin.





Once inside there, the first thing to do is to select your database. In this example,

we’ve selected shakenn_wrdp1. You don’t ever have to worry about

information_schema – we will never go in there.





Next we’ll see the following screen. We want to import the database that is in your

Martini folder. So browse to the folder, and select the database; it will have a .sql

extension, with probably a .gz after it, which means it’s in zipped format. Once

you’ve selected your database, just press the Go button.





Now you’ll see a Successful message.

That’s it – you have the database installed!





Step 4 – Changing the Database Options to Your DomainName

Now when you go look in wp-options, you’re going to see the original domain that

this site was installed on. You need to change that in four places; all of these fields

are on the first two pages of options, so it’s not complicated at all.

Now you’re going to select wp-options on the left side like you see below, and make

sure that you click in the little box, and it will open the screen on the next page.





Find the field for site_url and blog_name, and change those to reflect your own

domain and blog. All you have to do is click on the little pencil!





Just type in your domain name, and then click Go! Do the same thing for your Blog

Name, and that’s it for this page. Now go to the next page in wp-options.





On this page of the database, you need to change the home path, and the upload

path. Again, just click on the pencil and type in your domain name for the home

path, and type in your username in place of the default username that you were

provided. In this case, we’re going to replace barshake with shakenn. (The

upload_path contains the username.)

Now you’re finished editing the database, but leave this window open, because there’s

one more little thing we’ll have to do in there.





Step 5 – Upload the Files to Your Server

I’m going to assume that you’re familiar with uploading files to your server, but if you’re

not and you’re on a PC, go right now and download Filezilla – it’s free. You need that

to upload the files onto your server. If you have a Mac, you can use CyberDuck .

Your host is either your domain name or your IP address; either will work. Enter your

username and your password and click on Quickconnect – on Filezilla. I’m not a Mac

user, so I don’t know exactly what you’ll see in CyberDuck.

You need to browse to your www folder, which is referred to as “root”. Upload wp-

content folder and the .htaccess file. Just select both and right click, and upload.

Note: If you’re using an addon domain, the root will be immediately under your domain

name folder.

http://filezilla-project.org/

http://cyberduck.ch/

http://cyberduck.ch/

http://filezilla-project.org/





There’s already a wp-content folder on your server, so you’ll be prompted asking

you if your want to overwrite it, and you do, so using the example below, select

Always use this action and Apply to current queue only. Then click Ok.

That’s it – you’ve now uploaded all the files that make your blog, well, your blog.

You’ve just copied in the theme, all the plugins, everything that makes it look the

way it looks.





Step 5 – Login to Your New Blog for the First Time

Login with the username and p/w provided to by the seller and go to the users, and

add in your own user as admin.





Step 6 – Add Your New Username

This part should be pretty familiar, but just in case it’s not, I’ve added in a couple of

screen shots. You want to add your own user information, and make sure that you

create your user as an administrator – this is very important!





Step 7 – Delete the User that Came With Your Blog

You need to complete this step so that the blog can’t be accessed by the original

owner – unless you want them to maintain a login.

Go back to the phpMyAdmin window and wp-users, delete the user you were

provided, leaving your NEW user.





Step 8 – Login to Your New Blog and Finalize Your Settings

Go back to yourdomain.com/wp-admin and login with your new user, and activate

your plugins, make any modifications that you’d like.

Congratulations! You’ve now installed your blog and you’re ready to start blogging!

If you have any further questions or if you’d like to buy this beautiful Martinis and

Cosmos blog - or if you just want to stop by for a cocktail, please visit me at Blogs

by FlipDiva!









What If I Want to Transfer My Blog to Someone Else??

Somehow I just knew you were going to ask that question!

You’ve built a great blog, and you want to sell it and transfer it to someone else. I

do this all the time, and I know it seems as mysterious as which really is the best

brand of Vodka to put in that Martini, but it’s not.

It’s actually quite simple!

Now that you’ve read the first part of this guide, I know that you’re already familiar

with your cPanel, and how to FTP files.





The first thing I want you to do is to create a new folder on your desktop – at least

that’s where I always put mine – and call it something related to your blog. For

example, you might call it “Shaken Transfer”. The next thing I want you to do is to

access your website via FTP, and navigate to your www, or root folder of your

domain. See it?

Now you’re going to select the wp-content folder, .htaccess file and wp-config.php

file, and right click on them, and download them into your Shaken Transfer folder.





Next, you’ll go to your cPanel, and scroll down until you see the Files section, just

like below, and click on Backups:

Next you’ll see this screen:

Just click on the database name, in this case shaken_wrdp1, and it will download

onto your own computer.





Now your transfer folder should look like this:

If you don’t see your sql.gz database, you will have to go to your download folder

and move the database file into this folder. Since we each have our own download

area, I can’t tell you exactly where yours is. Mine is inside My Documents,

Downloads.

You should also create a nice little document to email to your buyer that gives them

all the usernames and passwords, and any other information that you might have.

You would also place that into this folder.





Now I know that some of you may have other folders that you want to send along

to your purchaser, so this isn’t necessarily all the files that you will need. 95% of

the time, it is. But if you have lots of other folders, you probably already know how

to do this, and you’re already sipping on that martini, bored to tears with my

explanation!

The only thing that you have left to do is “push” the domain to the new user, if you

haven’t already done that. The buyer needs to have an account on the same

registrar that you have your domain, and then you can simply unlock it and initiate

the transfer. Your buyer will then accept the domain. Most registrars offer free

domain accounts, so this is very easy.

Then simply zip up this folder by right clicking on it and choosing your zip program

to zip it, and send it off to your happy buyer!




Now you can take some of that hard earned cash that you made from the sale, and

treat yourself to something special!

Join me for cocktails over at Blogs by FlipDiva – Where it’s always Happy Hour!

