How to move your Joomla site.

 

There's the long way and the short way to move your Joomla site.  This Joomla! tip of the week will focus on the short way.  If your web host offers cpanel with file manager you're good to go.

 

1. Log into cpanel on your old host and select file manager.
2. Create an archive of the files you want to move.  If your site is in a sub-directory, open that directory first then select all. This will save you a step later.
3. Download this archived file to your hard drive.
4. Go back to cpanel and open phpMyAdmin.
5. Select your database from the list and click export.
6. Save as file should be ticked.
7. Download this file too.
8. Go to your new hosts cpanel open MySQL databases and create a new empty database.
9. Don't forget to add a user to that database.
10. Back to Cpanel and open up phpMyAdmin.
11. Select the database from the list.
12. Click import and import the sql file you saved from your old host.
13. FTP the archive file over to the new host.
14. Back to cpanel and open up File manager.
15. Extract your archived file.
16. Open up your old configuration.php file in Dreamweaver or some html editor.
17. Change db name, db user, db password to reflect the new information, and the two absolute path references to the new hosts path.
18. Upload changed configuration file to the new server.
19. TADA!

If you wound up with your Joomla files in a subfolder, you can use cpanels file manager to move them to the public_html or httpdocs folder.