Install on New Server?

[MichaelS0924]

Hey everyone. I need some help. I have a store thats on one server with its own domain, and I would like to copy that exact store with all the contributions, etc... and put it on a completely different server with a different domain name. How would I go about this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks.

[Iggy]

Hey everyone. I need some help. I have a store thats on one server with its own domain, and I would like to copy that exact store with all the contributions, etc... and put it on a completely different server with a different domain name. How would I go about this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks.

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If you have ssh/telnet access just tar or zip your site up on the server then download the archive. If not then download your catalog folder.

 

Obtain your database (phpMyAdmin works well for this or do a backup from the osC admin.)

 

Upload site archive to your new server.

 

Upload your database to your new server.

 

Edit the config files to match your new server.

 

Test. Fix. Test. Fix.

 

Launch.

 

Fun!

 

Hope that explains the bones of the process reasonably well.

 

Iggy

[MichaelS0924]

Thank you :) Will be trying it tonite. Hopefully it will work.

 

If you have ssh/telnet access just tar or zip your site up on the server then download the archive. If not then download your catalog folder.

 

Obtain your database (phpMyAdmin works well for this or do a backup from the osC admin.)

 

Upload site archive to your new server.

 

Upload your database to your new server.

 

Edit the config files to match your new server.

 

Test. Fix. Test. Fix.

 

Launch.

 

Fun!

 

Hope that explains the bones of the process reasonably well.

 

Iggy

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[MichaelS0924]

Ok, I know this is probably a really stupid question, but I need a little help. I uploaded the entire store's folder to the new server, but now I need to upload the database to the server. I am having a little trouble with this. If anyone can help, I would be greatly appreciated! I cant get into the Admin area on the new server yet because I did not upload any database yet.

 

Thank you :) Will be trying it tonite. Hopefully it will work.

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[Guest]

use phpmyadmin and then browse to the file (after creatig a database, user, password for the database) and then it is there, after you edit the configure.php files to match your scenario

[MichaelS0924]

For some strange reason I am having trouble adding the database! If anyone is willing to help, I will even pay to have the database installed and working. The store folder is copied onto the new server/domain, so all that needs to be done is adding the database now to the server... not too hard to do, but I am having problems with this!

 

use phpmyadmin and then browse to the file (after creatig a database, user, password for the database) and then it is there, after you edit the configure.php files to match your scenario

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[ozcsys]

For some strange reason I am having trouble adding the database! If anyone is willing to help, I will even pay to have the database installed and working. The store folder is copied onto the new server/domain, so all that needs to be done is adding the database now to the server... not too hard to do, but I am having problems with this!

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You need to do this from your hosting control panel. First you need to create the database and user. Then using phpmyadmin popullate the database with the last backup from your old site. You can email me if you need to.