[support] difficulty moving drupal from folder to root?

[Nikhil Kala]

Tina Williams wrote:
> I am new to Drupal, and I'm setting it up for a 1000 member 
> organization's website. Drupal will run their website as well as 
> using CiviCMS (thanks for the recommendation!) for our membership needs.
>
> Because they have a current website, and I can't take it off-line 
> while I develop the Drupal one, I've set Drupal up in a folder. Now 
> I'm beginning to worry about how hard it will be to move all this to 
> the root directory??? Am I worried about nothing?
>
> How difficult is it to move from the folder to the root and how many 
> things can go wrong?
>
> Am I asking a really stupid question?
>
>   
You can follow few simple steps,
1) Take back up of existing site running of the organization at localhost.
2) Copy entire new Drupal site to the root folder
3) Do the database required connection.
4) Import the sql file of database into mysql database.
5) Check the site now.

Hope this help you.



Thanks, 

Nikhil Kala
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