Comments on: Dumping MySQL and Moving It

By: inanis

inanis — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:08:18 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion. I did create the same user on the new box, but the permissions (i.e. the links in the database that say xyz user has abc access to table 123) didn’t copy – so while I was able to get rid of unknown user problems, I began to have invalid permission problems.

I’ll look into this again eventually, because I want to get the system running a more up to date version of the OS and SQL, additionally converted from 32-bit to 64-bit…

By: supadrake

supadrake — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:13:56 +0000

Make the same mysql user on the new site, create the same name database (like the name on the original) server with that user!Then export the database from the original server and delete the line “CREATE DATABASE `db_name` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE latin1_swedish_ci;.After this import the “db_name.sql” into ur new server.
I just installed ur wp theme its cool, and saw ur blog.
Good Luck

By: inanis

inanis — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:18:41 +0000

Wrong place to put this comment, but I understand because apparently my contact page isn’t working so… (EDIT. but I just tested it and it IS working… just that no one knows the answer to the secret question. HA! Look it up people!)

Having the default page width set to something other than “small” is a feature I added in (or was working on, I don’t remember right now) for the next bugfix. It’s minor on the grand scale, but I don’t think the theme editor is going to help you out with that because changes to the Javascript file need to be made to grab the width setting from useroptions.php and reset the page size to “middle” or “large” upon page load.

Changing the default page background color is done through the stylesheet. Look for the BODY descriptor on line 11 of style.css. You can set the background picture and color both on that line.

By: inanis

inanis — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:14:41 +0000

I agree, generally. The username and password don’t match because the wp-config.php points to a MySQL user that doens’t exist because WordPress has not been installed on the new server, rather it’s been copied. My focus is to move the whole kit-n-kaboodle from the old server to the new one, pop some files in place, and just boot the thing up so I don’t have to go through the process of actually reinstalling WordPress and my content, and doing the XML export/import thing, and installing and reconfiguring all my plugins and widgets. I think I may have to do what Rohan above said and copy the usernames database from the old box to the new one.

By: inanis

inanis — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:11:45 +0000

I thought about that, and read something to the effect of “you shouldn’t do that because it will break your MySQL installation.” Since I am doing this on a development-like basis to determine a procedure so when I am ready I can just pop it over, it might not hurt to actually try. Just gotta find time and energy to get back to it. Thanks for the suggestion!

By: Todd Edwards

Todd Edwards — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:44:05 +0000

It just sounds like your MySQL username and password combination on the new machine have changed. Double check this and change the username and password combination respectively for your web applications.

Example: WordPress MySQL username and password should be stored in a file called wp-config.php in the WordPress root directory.

By: Rohan Kapoor

Rohan Kapoor — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:33:06 +0000

Hey Mate,

You haven’t brought over the mysql database called mysql that is for users, etc. What you should do is just bring the users part of that database over. Then everything should work!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:04:25 +0000

Mate, trying to contact you via your contact form, but its not working…. cant get the answer thing to work.

Heres my question anyway.

Hey fella,

Loving the theme, although i have 2 issues I’m trying to work out.

1 – i would like to make the defualt page layout expand to the full width of the uesrs screen (the button at the top of the header)

2 – i would like to set a default page background colour image, how?

Been looking in the editor, but i got bored and wondered if you could give me a quicker answer.

Thanks
Dan

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:19:50 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve done one, but if I remember correctly, users and permissions are all stored in a separate database that all MySQL installs have. In the schema “mysql” you’ll see a table called “user”. I believe that is the one that contains all users and user permissions. If you back up that table and recover it into your new database, I believe that will do what you need. Keep in mind that the other schemas on the server have to be the same, but that sounds like it won’t be an issue.

Hope that helps you.