[support] Need To Know How To Move Drupal To Another Hosting Company

[Rob]

Would a database dump be the same as saving a backup copy from the old
hosting company in tar gz form and then reinstalling that?

Rob

On 12/21/05, Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, Rob.  Here's what I do when moving a 4.6 instal from a devel server to
> live, so it should be the same process.
>
> First, ensure your new host will work with Drupal in the first place. :-)
> Assuming it does, create a database and database user on the new host, but
> do NOT put anything in it yet.
>
> Go to your current site and, in admin/settings, disable Clean URLs and the
> Page Cache.
>
> Take a database dump of your current database.  If you're on the command
> line, mysqldump will do this for you.  If your host offers phpMyAdmin,
> that works, too, or they may have some other backup process.  As long as
> you get a .sql file out of it at the end, either way will work.
>
> Load the database dump into the new database you just created.  Again, the
> exact process varies with the web host, but the command is the same as if
> you were following the install instructions, just with a different file.
> After it's loaded, clear the cache table.  The SQL command would be
> "DELETE FROM cache;" (no quotes, of course).
>
> Now, copy all of the files in your Drupal install from your old host to
> the new host, verbatim.  Once that's done, check the permissions on the
> files/ directory (and its contents) to make sure they're set correctly.
>
> Now edit your settings.php file on the new server.  Again, it's just like
> it were a new install.
>
> You should now be able to log into your new Drupal install and re-enable
> Clean URLs and the page cache.  (Those can sometimes cause weirdness if
> the new server isn't configured correctly, so it's safer to disable them
> for the move.)
>
> Bear in mind that if you're also mving the domain name to a new host,
> there will be a delay in getting the domain to point to the new server.
> The details there vary depending on your web hosts.
>
> Hope that helps.  Cheers.
>
> --Larry Garfield
>
> On Wed, December 21, 2005 5:13 pm, Rob said:
> > I am moving several sites to another hosting company. I wanted to ask if
> > someone could explain how I should go about moving my existing Drupal
> site
> > files so I will not lose archives etc.The simplest way possible is what
> I
> > need to do since I only know how to use Drupal but am not familiar with
> > some
> > of the technical things about servers.
> >
> > Rob
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