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?<br><br>Rob<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/21/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Larry Garfield
</b> <<a href="mailto:larry@garfieldtech.com">larry@garfieldtech.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi, Rob. Here's what I do when moving a 4.6 instal from a devel server to<br>live, so it should be the same process.<br><br>First, ensure your new host will work with Drupal in the first place. :-)<br>Assuming it does, create a database and database user on the new host, but
<br>do NOT put anything in it yet.<br><br>Go to your current site and, in admin/settings, disable Clean URLs and the<br>Page Cache.<br><br>Take a database dump of your current database. If you're on the command<br>line, mysqldump will do this for you. If your host offers phpMyAdmin,
<br>that works, too, or they may have some other backup process. As long as<br>you get a .sql file out of it at the end, either way will work.<br><br>Load the database dump into the new database you just created. Again, the
<br>exact process varies with the web host, but the command is the same as if<br>you were following the install instructions, just with a different file.<br>After it's loaded, clear the cache table. The SQL command would be
<br>"DELETE FROM cache;" (no quotes, of course).<br><br>Now, copy all of the files in your Drupal install from your old host to<br>the new host, verbatim. Once that's done, check the permissions on the<br>files/ directory (and its contents) to make sure they're set correctly.
<br><br>Now edit your settings.php file on the new server. Again, it's just like<br>it were a new install.<br><br>You should now be able to log into your new Drupal install and re-enable<br>Clean URLs and the page cache. (Those can sometimes cause weirdness if
<br>the new server isn't configured correctly, so it's safer to disable them<br>for the move.)<br><br>Bear in mind that if you're also mving the domain name to a new host,<br>there will be a delay in getting the domain to point to the new server.
<br>The details there vary depending on your web hosts.<br><br>Hope that helps. Cheers.<br><br>--Larry Garfield<br><br>On Wed, December 21, 2005 5:13 pm, Rob said:<br>> I am moving several sites to another hosting company. I wanted to ask if
<br>> someone could explain how I should go about moving my existing Drupal site<br>> files so I will not lose archives etc.The simplest way possible is what I<br>> need to do since I only know how to use Drupal but am not familiar with
<br>> some<br>> of the technical things about servers.<br>><br>> Rob<br>> --<br>> [ Drupal support list | <a href="http://lists.drupal.org/">http://lists.drupal.org/</a> ]<br><br><br>--<br>[ Drupal support list |
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