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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

NOTE: We do not provide support for server or domain moves as part of Standard DAP Support that you get with your purchase of DAP.

Please see our Terms Of Support which explains why.

If you want our help with moving a DAP installation, you may purchase Premium Support slots from http://DigitalAccessPass.com/buynow.php#store (see “Installations & Support” tab)

Moving a DAP installation

  • 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 (if not already installed)
  • 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.

 

13 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.

#11 melanie on 03.30.12 at 9:12 am

After completing the entire website / dap project for my client she came back to me six months later saying she has to change her domain name so she can trademark the name but she wants to keep the other site/domain name. I’ve read the moving directions above and they seem fairly straight forward. It will be on the same web server so will I need to set up a new cron job?
The new site is up and running with the new look, logo etc and all the same content from the old site rebranded. I’ve also recreated all 136 html emails with the new logo and artwork. I will recopy and paste these into their respective products in DAP once it is moved.
I plan on sending out an email to all the users next week talking about the move in service and the “new Look” of the emails.

Is there any steps I seem to be missing?

#12 Veena Prashanth on 04.02.12 at 4:36 pm

>>It will be on the same web server so will I need to set up a new cron job? <<

Correct.

If the database remains the same and just the site name changes, after you upload dap files to the new site, copy over /dap/dap-config.php to new site and just update the SITE_URL_DAP to point to the new domain. This way dap will continue to connect to the old/existing database but from the new site.

#13 Melanie on 04.02.12 at 5:30 pm

Thanks. I will have to copy the Dap tables over. The dev site isn’t using the same db.

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