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How to Migrate a Website

Introduction​

In this guide you'll backup a website and migrate it to a new destination on the same server. For example, you'll backup a production website and migrate it to a development website.

Prerequisites​

To follow this article, you will need:

Step 1 — Backing up the source website​

Follow the How to Manually Backup the Server guide to create the source backup.

Step 2 — Creating the destination website​

Follow the How to Create a New Website to create a new website or use one that's already made on the same server.

Step 3 — Migrating the source website to the destination​

Next, run the following command, swapping out the domains out and replacing 202208221423 with the backup located in /opt/backups/superrad.dev/.

/scripts/wo-scripts/wo-migrate.sh source.com destination.com 202208221423
danger

Running wo-migrate.sh will delete everything in the destination website.