[support] HOW: Moving drupal from one host to another

[Brett Evanson]

Also, try going to http://newhost.com/index.php?q=user and see if that comes up

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Brett Evanson <brettev at gmail.com> wrote:
> This sounds like it could be a clean urls issue. Did you get the
> .htaccess file copied over? Does your new host support .htaccess files
> and mod_rewrite for apache?
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Néstor <rotsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I tried moving Drupal 6.9 from one host to another and it did not work.
>> 1) I did a 'mysqldump -u root -p --opt drupal69 > drupal69.sql
>> 2) I copied the entire Drupal69 directory under my htdocs to my
>>     the new host's htdocs directory
>> 3) I created the DB on the new host and then I installed the dump
>>     using the following command 'mysql -u root -p drupal69 < drupal69.sql'
>>
>> 4) I edit the config file and changed the '10.100.5.126' ip address to
>> 'localhost'
>>     and set the password to the correct password.  (the user is the same)
>>
>> I am able to see the main page but when I try to log in, I get the error
>> page not found
>> for htdocs/drupal69/user.
>>
>> What are the proper steps tp follow?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nestor
>>
>> --
>> [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Brett Evanson
> brettev at gmail.com
> 801-599-0584
>



-- 
Brett Evanson
brettev at gmail.com
801-599-0584