Step 3

Testing your WordPress installation 

Since your newserver doesn't have a domain name yet, you’ll have to do a little bit of editing to test your WordPress installation.

With temporary URL

1. Login to your PHPMyAdmin, mt user, go to your (gs) Account Center, click  “Manage Databases”, then click on the admin, next to your database name. When prompted enter your user name and password.
2. Now select the database from the dropdown, on the column on the left.
3. mt users, check your account activation email, you’ll find an URL like http://s#####.gridserver.com note down the URL. Other hosting service users, you can use your new IP address or check your activation details.

   Now click, wp-options table, and browse to edit siteurl entry, to point to your temporary server address or IP address.

   The value of siteurl for my WordPress is http://www.ditii.com/wp , I need to change it to http://s#####.gridserver.com/wp  save and log off PHPMyAdmin. 

   Note: Replace s##### with your account.

4. At this point, we’re ready to test WordPress. Open you browser, and visit http://s#####.gridserver.com/wp . If you did everything as written above, your WordPress blog will open. 

   If you get a blank page, or other error, just try to troubleshoot.

• First try to login to your WordPress admin panel http://s#####.gridserver.com/wp/wp-admin.php  if you get the login screen, enter your admin name and password.
• go to options —> general and change the blog address to match the site URL.
• go to plugins, and deactivate all plugins.
• go to settings  —> permalinks and click update. Check your blog by browsing.

  If you still get errors, try to see exactly what error you’re getting or check your PHP error logs to see what the problem is. You could be missing files from your transfer or missed some steps.

5. If everything goes fine, and you’re able to browse your blog (navigate few pages). Login to your WordPress admin panel, and update the settings blog address etc. if you change with your real blog address, go to plugins and activate all your plugins. 
6. Go back to wp-options table and update siteurl with your real siteurl

Testing IP Address

If you don’t get siteurl like the one that Media Temple, you can test your website with your server IP address, by editing the hosts file on your local computer. Your computer will use the entries in your hosts file before it looks up the current information in DNS. This walkthrough will explain how to edit the hosts file on Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista computers.

1. Locate the hosts file on your computer. Depending on the operating system you have, the following are locations you may be able to find this file.

   Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista:  c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
   Windows 95/98/Me:  c:\windows\hosts

2. Open this file with a text editor such as notepad or wordpad.  You will see two columns of information, the first containing IP addresses and the second containing host names. By default a windows host file should be similar to the following:

   127.0.0.1 localhost

3. You will need to add lines just underneath the existing line that will point requests from your computer to your new server's IP address. Suppose the IP address of your newserver is 192.168.1.1 and the domain name you want to test is your-domain.com:

   192.168.1.1 your-domain.com 
   192.168.1.1 www.your--domain.com

4. Save the file with these new entries and close all open browsers. You can now go to either http://www.your-domain.com or http://your-domain.com to test your new server.

At this point, I’ve tested my WordPress installation on my new Media Temple (gs) Grid-Service account.

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