SQL for migrating a WordPress DB between domains

nick — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:59:42 +0000

When working locally on a wordpress site there’s 2 references to the local server address stored in wordpress’ ‘wp_options’ table. These handy bits of sql will update the DB when you have imported to the live server:

/* update wordpress sql */
UPDATE `wp_options` SET `option_id`='1', `blog_id`='0', `option_name`='siteurl', `option_value`='[NEW DOMAIN NAME HERE]', `autoload`='yes' WHERE `option_id` = '1' AND `blog_id` = '0' AND `option_name` = 'siteurl';
 
UPDATE `wp_options` SET `option_id`='39', `blog_id`='0', `option_name`='home', `option_value`='[NEW DOMAIN NAME HERE]', `autoload`='yes' WHERE `option_id` = '39' AND `blog_id` = '0' AND `option_name` = 'home';

Useful plesk 8 administration sql commands

nick — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:38:54 +0000

If you manage a dedicated web server like we do at sandbox media. You’re probably regularly asked by clients and colleagues to call up forgotten user names and passwords for the their domain and email accounts. We have remote root access to our dedicated server’s Plesk MySQL database which is really handy for such occasions. To do this you will need a client based MySQL tool like CocoaMySQL or MySQL GUI Tools to start brewing your own remote backup scripts (just in-case) and sql commands.

In older versions of plesk the server admin had to create a root user account in the MySQL table to allow access. With Plesk 8 its just a case of adding the correct rule to the firewall. If you have a nice server administrator they should jim’ll fix it for you.

Below are a few scripts which have made my life a lot easier. Please comment if you have new ones to add to the list.

/* returns all ftp accounts for a domain search */
SELECT d.name, s.id, s.login, a.password FROM domains AS d, hosting AS h, sys_users AS s, accounts AS a WHERE d.name LIKE  "%thedomain%"  AND d.id = h.dom_id AND h.sys_user_id = s.id AND s.account_id = a.id

/* returns all user plesk login accounts for a owner search */
SELECT c.id, d.name, c.cname, c.login, a.password, c.account_id FROM domains AS d, clients AS c, accounts a WHERE c.pname LIKE  "%user name%"  AND d.cl_id = c.id AND c.account_id = a.id

/* returns all user plesk login accounts for a domain search */
SELECT c.id, d.name, c.cname, c.login, a.password, c.account_id FROM domains AS d, clients AS c, accounts a WHERE d.name LIKE  "%thedomain%"  AND d.cl_id = c.id AND c.account_id = a.id

/* returns all the mail passwords for a domain name search */
SELECT d.id, d.name, m.mail_name, a.id, a.password FROM domains AS d, mail AS m, accounts a WHERE d.name LIKE  "%thedomain%" AND m.dom_id = d.id AND a.id = m.account_id

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SQL for migrating a WordPress DB between domains

Useful plesk 8 administration sql commands