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Moving DAP From One Host (or Domain) To Another

June 27th, 2010 | Activation, Admin, Control Panel, DAP, Database, Installation, Setup, Web Hosting

Here’s how you can move an existing DAP installation from one host  – or domain – to another.

  • Log in to your web hosting control panel, go to “phpMyAdmin”, select your WordPress database (which is where the DAP tables are also installed, by default)
  • Do an “Export” of just the DAP tables. Select the “SQL” option and select “Save as File”. All DAP database tables start with the text “dap_”. Save this file on your desktop – let’s say you call it “dapexport.sql” (it could also be “dapexport.txt” – does not matter what the exact extension is – .txt or .sql).
  • Make a back up of the dap-config.php file (located in the “dap” directory on your old site/domain) on your desktop
  • At your new site, install WordPress
  • Copy the database info from your new blog’s “wp-config.php” to the “dap-config.php” file stored on your desktop.
  • Then log in to your web hosting control panel of your new site, go to “phpMyAdmin”, select your WordPress database, go to the “SQL” tab, open the export file from above (dapexport.sql), copy the contents, paste into the SQL tab and hit “Go”. All dap data from your old site is now on your new site.
  • Upload all dap files to your new site (don’t do full installation – just upload the files).
  • Also upload the LiveLinks files to wp-content/plugins/ .
  • Upload the new dap-config.php file from your desktop to the “dap” folder on your new site.
  • Log in as WP admin, and activate the LiveLinks plugin. It should give you a warning that DAP is already installed. That’s ok, that’s what we want it to say.
  • That’s it. DAP is now moved over from your old site to your new site.
  • Log into your DAP Dashboard using your old DAP admin login info, and you’re all set.

10 comments ↓

#1 Peretz on 06.28.10 at 9:47 am

Exactly what I needed!
Thanks, Ravi.

#2 Karen Tax on 09.03.10 at 4:21 pm

I’m in a catch-22 situation w/ a DAP move: I’ve got my license key for the newly moved DAP, but I can’t log into admin to set the license key because there is no license key! How do I get around this?!
–Karen

#3 Rogier on 09.16.10 at 12:47 pm

Could you indicate which options should be selected in phpMyAdmin? Apparently different versions have different options (checked) by default. For example, in version 3.2.4, do we need to select “Add DROP TABLE “? What about “Add IF NOT EXISTS” ?

#4 Russell on 04.18.11 at 9:10 pm

Hi Ravi,
I am moving my DAP installation to a new host. I think I have it mostly complete, but when trying to activate the plugin I get the following error. Can you help me please?

Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare myErrorHandler() (previously declared in …/globalsitesecrets.com/dap/dap-settings.php:110) in …/globalsitesecrets.com/dap/dap-settings.php on line 124

Thanks,
Russell

#5 Veena Prashanth on 04.18.11 at 9:48 pm

You are probably on a different version of WP on this host.
Download latest version of DAP Live Links plugin and upload to your site and the error will go away.
Or use the same version of WP that’s currently working on current host.

#6 Russell on 04.18.11 at 10:15 pm

Thanks Veena,
I am going to start a ticket.

#7 Lia Huber on 10.04.11 at 1:53 am

Is it possible to merge two DAP databases? I have DAP on two sites and am creating one ‘delivery’ site that I’d like to merge all products onto.

Help?

#8 Gareth on 10.13.11 at 5:38 am

Worked a treat – thanks guys :)

#9 Gabe on 12.02.11 at 6:08 pm

Any reason why I would need to do this export process separately from the rest of the WP tables in a host & domain migration?

It looks like no processing is being done to the SQL export in the procedure above.

#10 Ravi Jayagopal on 12.02.11 at 6:13 pm

Gabe,

If you’re moving your entire WP database, which would include the DAP tables too, then no need to do this separately.

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