Help With Wordpress Import

[Primo]

Hello,

I recently created a worpress website on a different domain. I need to move this now to the 'official' website and domain which has an HTML website.

Can I simply replace the html_public folder with the one from the wordpress site? And amend the wpconfig and sql files?

I have very limited skills in this area. Any help will be appreciated.

 

[snowwolf]

Would be fine to do that yes.

Restore DB onto the new domain (if hosting / cPanel account are different)

Copy contents of public_html from the new site onto the new domain.
Update the wpconfig file and it should work.

Do full testing on the site after you restore it to make sure images etc are not broken.
Also check that settings and SSL (if any) are correct.

 

[Primo]

Would be fine to do that yes.

Restore DB onto the new domain (if hosting / cPanel account are different)

Copy contents of public_html from the new site onto the new domain.
Update the wpconfig file and it should work.

Do full testing on the site after you restore it to make sure images etc are not broken.
Also check that settings and SSL (if any) are correct.

Thanks. So I am moving it from an afrihost hosting to a herztner one.

To avoid too much downtime should I rename the existing public.html folder so that if what I do doesnt work I can still have the old site running.

 

[juro]

You can also use a plugin like Duplicator (free). It creates a little installer/archive and you then set it up on the production server.