{"id":3890,"date":"2018-01-17T23:17:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T23:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/?p=3890"},"modified":"2018-01-17T23:23:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T23:23:30","slug":"new-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2018\/01\/17\/new-host\/","title":{"rendered":"New host"},"content":{"rendered":"
What started<\/a> with a Troy Hunt<\/a>-inspired investigation into how I can enforce HTTPS<\/a> on my Bitnami<\/a>\/AWS<\/a>-hosted personal website turned into a full-on migration over to a new hosted web provider<\/a>. After some initial teething problems related to the fact that my new site would be hosted at andrewdoran.uk and my old site was already at that same address, I managed<\/a> to get it up and running with minimal hassle. Support from the staff at Siteground was excellent, answering my questions quickly and pointing me to exactly the resources I needed to get going.<\/p>\n

Once I had everything in place the migration itself only took a couple of hours. I started with an export and import of my site using the WordPress-provided tools but found that this only transferred the basics \u2014 mainly the text. I’ve spent a lot of time over the years tweaking different aspects of the site and didn’t want to go through trying to reassemble it again. The All-in-One WP Migration<\/a> plugin came to my rescue \u2014 this exports pretty much every aspect of a WordPress site including media, plugins, customisations etc. and lets you drag and drop the exported file to its new home. In order to export the data I had create a new folder on the server and grant write permissions to it, but I didn’t need to make any customisations for the upload to work on the new site. Exporting is free but importing a file of over 512Mb means that you need to buy a licence<\/a> for USD 69 (about GBP 50). My export file was 1.4Gb so I had to pay; in my mind this was money well-spent considering the alternative of spending hours making all the customisations, reinstalling plugins and uploading all of my old media again.<\/p>\n

Uploading my own static HTML content was as simple as can be, again making reference to the many straightforward Siteground tools and reference pages on how to create a key pair<\/a> to enable an SFTP<\/a> connection.<\/p>\n

Once the content was uploaded and I’d tested it out I had to make a few tweaks to the variables so that it recognised itself as the canonical andrewdoran.uk and then repointed the DNS entries to the new site. I know that DNS is meant to take up to 48h to propagate but the change seemed almost instant from where I was connecting from. I also made a simple change to redirect \u2018www\u2019 requests to the non-www equivalent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Having got the site up and running it was exceedingly easy to use the Siteground-provided tools to not only install a valid Let’s Encrypt<\/a> SSL certificate but also to get any requests to HTTP pages redirected to the HTTPS equivalent on the site.<\/p>\n

As far as migrations go it was exceptionally straightforward. It\u2019s great to know that not only am I now able to serve up site content over HTTPS but also that I don\u2019t need to worry about maintaining the operating system on my web server, as the host will do that for me.<\/p><\/div>\n

What started with a Troy Hunt-inspired investigation into how I can enforce HTTPS on my Bitnami\/AWS-hosted personal website turned into a full-on migration over to a new hosted web provider. 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