Moving Wordpress Between Directories

From SnOwy - Ed's Wiki Notebook

Moving is remarkably easy if it's just about moving the installation from one directory to another.

• Under the General Settings of Wordpress, change the WordPress address to destination.
• Do a physical move of all the files from the source WordPress directory to the destination.
• If the first step wasn't completed correctly, go into the MySQL database and change the value wp_options/siteurl to the destination.
• Change the upload directory under Settings/Miscellaneous in Wordpress to reflect the change-- be careful to preserve Wordpress' structure.
  • Note that the above point changes where the default media gallery is placed -- there is no other place to change this option.
• Finally, change Blog Address in General Settings to the destination (does not really impact general use).