Restore Website

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For starters, let me make one thing very clear:

STOP USING SOFTACULOUS! YOU WANT TO RESTORE A SITE, NOT CREATE A NEW ONE!

You need to migrate your website as instructed in this article: How to migrate your website to InfinityFree

In short:

  1. Clear out the htdocs directory of your domain.
  2. Upload the entire WordPress installation from your backup to your account.
  3. Create a new MySQL database to be used for your site.
  4. Import the database backup into the MySQL database.
  5. Update the settings in the wp-config.php of your site (which you uploaded through the backup) to use the database credentials of the database you just set up.

Please, please, please, please just follow our instructions. Please stop coming up with your own way to do it, failing, and then asking us to help when it breaks. I’ve personally probably migrated hundreds of WordPress sites, so please trust me when I say that you’re making things unnecessarily difficult for yourself right now.

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