Transfer site to another

[psj3809]

The site i run (to rehome animals at an Animal Rescue Sanctuary - no prices just more of a catalogue) is getting so popular i keep running out of bandwidth on my site so i'm going to move it to its own individual site (eg instead of www.mysite.com/animals its now www.animals.com)

 

To move the whole site to a new website is there a way i can save the database and then 'copy' that over and use that on a different domain easily ?

 

Obviously i need to copy over all the graphics of the animals and the layout etc. As you can tell i'm a newbie to this.

 

I want to transfer all the users/views of every animal to a new website. I've seen theres an option to save the database, where abouts is the one to load up the database ?

 

Any help would be great

 

Regards

[oschellas]

Most hosting companies provide phpmyadmin to manage the database. Have a look at the mysql version from your old and new server. If there isn't a difference you can simply export all the tables from your old database, create a database on your new server and use the import function to add the previously exported tables.

 

For the file structure you mainly have to adjust the configure.php files (catalog/includes and admin/includes folders ) to your new domain and database settings.

 

The rest of the files you can simply copy. If you use a FTP client make sure that the transfer mode is set on auto (otherwise your images can get damaged).

[psj3809]

Thanks i'll give that a go