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Quick question to you web designers out there...

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Theskiingguy
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Hey guys, quick question.
So someone made a website with wordpress for a lady's house renting. It's up online hosted by godaddy, but apparently this lady wants to have it hosted by att. However she doesn't have the original wordpress login information and stuff to access/change the original code.

How can I take this website, basically copy it, and then "rehost" it with att without having to access the wordpress account? I figured I should just use the source code on chrome, copy all of it, and then reupload it on the att domain, but am not sure.

Thanks guys so much for any help!! I'm not expecting much but hey, might as well give it a shot :)
Jan 9 2014 3:44AM
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Wallisch_pl
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WHO is this lady you ar talking about, IM SURE you can contact this "Wordpress" COMPANY and get the account back. ILL ANSWER your question when it's not 4am, nite OP
Jan 9 2014 3:56AM
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iLLbiLLy
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The answer is no...

You absolutely cannot just copy over "the source" from a browser. What you're looking at in chrome is just the HMTL and javascript. If the website was only static this might actually work, but wordpress is a PHP content management system.

In other words, PHP runs on the server and dynamically writes out the html and javascript that you see in your browser.

If you had access to hostgator, you could copy all the files and database over to att. You would then need to update the wordpress config file to the new database connection string.


Jan 9 2014 4:44AM
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iLLbiLLy
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also you'll need to login to where her DNS is hosted (probably also in hostgator) and update the "A" record to point to the IP of the new att hosting.

Goodluck
Jan 9 2014 4:48AM
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