Migration of WooCommerce site

Question

I am new in WordPress. I am trying to migrate a WooCommerce site. What are the steps to Migrate a WooCommerce site? Where is the location of .htaccess file in a WooCommerce site?

I migrated files and databases. I changed setting in wp-config.php file. I changed site URL in wp-options table of the database. But I found that my migrated site is not looking like the previous site, even I am getting Not Found error while I am trying to browse categories pages.

Could anyone say where is the issue ?

Answer 1

It's not enough to edit wp-config.php file and wp-options table. You have to change all URLs and file paths in your database, including those serialized.

Use WP Migrate DB or Duplicator plugins to do so.

.htaccess file resides in the same server directory as wp-config.php.

Answer 2

1) Woocommerce sites are basically WordPress sites, so follow Moving WordPress « WordPress Codex for details you may have missed.

2) If you changed domains - and it sounds like you did since you changed the site url in wp-options table - you should use WordPress Serialized PHP Search Replace Tool in order to correctly change the old URLs in the database to the new domain.

3) 404's can be cause by wrong permalinks; it's always a good idea to always re-save your permalinks after a move.

4) To diagnose other errors, try Debug. See https://codex.wordpress.org/WP_DEBUG . Add

define( 'WP_DEBUG', true ); define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true ); define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false);

to wp-config.php and the debug.log file will be in wp-content.

5) To check for other 404s, network errors and Javascript console errors, the developer tools in Firefox (or Firebug) or Chrome or Safari or IE