[support] How portable are drupal web sites?

[Ari Davidow]

Yup. That's pretty much it. Remember that there are two components: the
database and the associated drupal file directory. Unless you directly
reference an IP address or a directory structure (/home/foo/bar/baz/) for
something that may be set up differently on the new host, you're done.

This is pretty much how one promotes an initial site from dev to production.

ari

On 10/19/07, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
>
> As an old-time unix hacker, I know my way around the inside of a web
> server pretty well, but right now I'm in "I want a tool not a hobby" mode
> and need to find a web hosting service for a club I belong to.  There seem
> to be plenty of places out there offering amazing amounts disk/bandwidth/etc
> for amazingly low prices, and it's not clear how to determine which are
> fly-by-night and which are reliable.
> So, the question is, if I go with a hosting service and later decide to
> switch to a different provider, how hard is it to pick up my drupal-based
> site and move it to another host?  Is it as simple as finding another place
> that offers LAMP services, dumping the database, and restoring it onto the
> new server?  And, of course, changing the DNS registration.
>
>
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