Hello,

 

I'm new to this site and to Wordpress. I have a client with a Wordpress site that I am going to redesign in Adobe Muse. However the hosting has expired and I need the site live until the new one is finished. The old web designer hosted the site himself, he has sent me 3 main files- htdocs, cgi bin and logs with more content in them. I had access to Wordpress but he says that is not available any more. I'm trying to upload these files through 123 reg and i'm getting 403 errors.

 

I feel like a total idiot and have googled but I'm not sure what to do to get this sorted. Any input greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Louise

Welcome to WDF

 

Hopefully this will help - https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

 

Basically you need 2 things - the Wordpress files + the database, which as @@citypaul pointed out is an .sql file.

First, you need to make sure the domain where you will upload the WP files to, matches the site url in the database (the .sql file). If not you can simply do search and replace in notepad or your code editor.

 

In 123 reg hosting admin panel you have to create a new database, new database user, assign the user to the database and set full privileges, then import the sql file via phpMyAdmin (surely 123 reg provide that). Note the database name, user name, password and host, you'll need them to set up WP.

 

Then the WP files - within your htdocs folder, you need to look for the directory that contains wp-admin, wp-includes and wp-content. You need to upload all of the contents of that directory (not only the wp-.. folders, but all other files found) to public_html on 123reg.

 

There should be a wp-config.php file - open it and replace the old database name, user, password and host.

If all went well, you shoud see the old site when you visit the url in your browser.

 

The last step should be to log in to the wp admin panel (your client should be able to supply creds) and refresh the permalinks from Settings >> Permalinks (Just click save without making changes).

 

Hope this helps a bit - feel free to post if you run into any troubles

Hi Louise,

If you are still having problems then if you send over the files I will upload them to a temporary site so you can at least see them "live" (no charge of course) ;-)