IMPORTANT, please fill the questions
We assume you are using Bitnami to deploy your application.
Which version of the application are you using?:
Migrate from 4.9.4-5 ec2 to 5.2.2-3 Lightsail
Please choose how you got the application: Installer (Windows, Linux, macOS), cloud image (AWS, GCE, Azure, ...) or VM (VMDK, VBOX):
AWS EC2, and AWS Lightsail
Have you installed any plugin or modified any configuration file?:
Yes
Describe here your question/suggestion/issue (expected and actual results):
I want to migrate from AWS EC2 instance to Lightsail. I understand that there's various plugins that can do this, but for one reason or another they haven't worked for me. All-in-one-wp-migration plugin hangs when uploading the file. I don't want to pay for the premium version just to do this import, so the way I've decided to do it is to import the files from backup - Themes, Plugins, Uploads, and do a dump from mysql, and import it. The files seem to be restored with no issues, as the site was still running after they were imported. Next, I created the database with the same name as the original, and imported the .sql file. At this point the site still works. It's after changing the 'wp_config.php' file that I started to have problems. It just gives a white screen, no debug info (it's turned on), and nothing in apache error log. Probably I did something wrong, but I seemed to follow logical steps
-> create database with same name as original
-> grant all privileges to user on the db
-> import the .sql file into that db
-> I tried both original and new passwords in wp-config.php
Is it possible to have a step by step instruction to migrating without the premium version of "All-in-one-wp-migration"? The free version doesn't work at all for me. It hangs every time. I'm really stuck because the PHP version on the ec2 instance is outdated now, so it needs to be migrated. When I restored the original wp-config file, the site wouldn't reconnect to the default db.
