Migrate WordPress installation from GCP to cPanel

  • tutorial is based on documentation available here:
  • https://docs.bitnami.com/general/apps/
  • https://docs.bitnami.com/general/apps/wordpress-pro/
  • Let’s first identify the version of OS running on Google Cloud virtual machine

root@vm:/home# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9.12 (stretch)
Release: 9.12
Codename: stretch

  • Now let’s try to find Apache Document Root in Linux Chromium OS 11.0
  • To identify if your Bitnami stack uses MySQL or MariaDB run this command:

root@vm:/home# test -d /opt/bitnami/mariadb && echo “MariaDB” || echo “MySQL”
MySQL

  • Check MySQL Version with V Command

root@vm:/home# mysql -V
/opt/bitnami/mysql/bin/mysql.bin Ver 8.0.18 for linux-glibc2.12 on x86_64 (MySQL Community Server – GPL)