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I needed to move a full Wordpress site to a new hosting account - maintaining the same domain address. The original account was a Windows hosting account and I'm moving to a Linux hosting account. As far as I know I successfully backed up the site (everything in my directory using ftp) and I backed up the SQL to a .sql file.

Now I'm trying to upload everything to my new Linux hosting account. I have completed the following steps:

1) I have uploaded all of the files using ftp to the new account 2) I have created a new database (by a different name) 3) I have imported my backed up .sql into the new database 4) I have edited wp-config.php to refer to the new database name, database user name and password, and the new hostname.

Unfortunately I get an entirely blank screen when I browse to my domain. If I upload an index.html file it comes up but if I remove that I just can't get my wordpress site to show up.

When I browse to wp-admin/install.php it tells me that it is "Already Installed".

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks, Maureen


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