We finally come to one of the last posts of Project Uptime. Now that all the components have been setup, I finally copied the wordpress directory from my old server to the new one. The only changes, I had to make after copying the files were

1. Configure Apache to have the wordpress folder as the default directory. I did this by changing the DocumentRoot option in the vhost
2. Changed the permissions on the wordpress directories (so that wordpress can make rewrite rule changes on the fly)

sudo chmod -v 664 $WORDPRESS_DIRECTORY/.htaccess
sudo chmod 755 $WORDPRESS_DIRECTORY/wp-content