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

[Bèr Kessels]

Op donderdag 22 december 2005 00:26, schreef Larry Garfield:
> 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.

Here is a way to avoid downtime:
* set up the site (with the backups / sql files etc) on the new  host
* add a example.com/settings.php to that new hosts intallation
* add a staging.example.com/settings.php to that new hosts intallation
* Lock down comments and submissions. For all content added, from now on, to 
the ld site, will be lost. 
* Get staging.example.com dns to pint to that new host [1]
* Test staging.example.com (to find out if everythnih on that new host runs as 
wished.
* You might optionally do a new database copy here, and only then lock the 
submission on the old site.
* Get the DNS for example.com to point to the new server
* Wait untill the world hasz the new detals and is working on the (unlocked, 
you never locked that one down) new site/server
* Remove the old stuff from the old site. A good thing to do is to request a 
DVD by mail from the data your account.

[1] Alternaatively, instead of staging.example.com you can use the IP of the 
new host just add a 
sites/123.451.234/settings.php (the ip) 

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