Streaming My Consciousness

Pretty straightforward, once I found the correct search terms to do it. Did it with the aid of this great tutorial, with a few changes.

The tutorial assumes you’re on some kind of hosting provider. I eventually figured out that when you’re running your own server without CPanel (because CPanel sucks bigtime), when he says “park a domain”, all you have to do is point the DNS for the host you want to use at your wordpress installation and add it as a SiteAlias in your Apache config.

The other thing that got left out was duplicating the metadata from the original site to your new site ID. Especially important are allowedthemes, menu_items, and upload_filetypes.These merely need to be copied from the original site, unmodified.

Sure, you can do this without phpMyAdmin with manual SQL statements, but PMA makes it a lot easier.

1. Clif Guy says:

   June 9, 2008 at 12:51 pm

   Your feed address didn’t change, so I shouldn’t have to do anything to get your posts here. Right?
2. Site Administrator says:

   June 10, 2008 at 12:08 pm

   Feed changed too. I wasn’t using feedburner before.