Moving A Drupal Site From One Host To Another - How To
Here are the detailed steps how to successfully move a complete Drupal installation from one host to another.
The documentation on drupal.org is not necessarily clear, here are the exact steps how to move a complete site including your drupal mysql database.
Migrating Drupal On your OLD host:
1) Backup your whole home directory from your ftp access using an ftp client like filezilla.
Make a folder on your local harddisk and download the complete directory to that local folder.
2) Backup your mysql database on your old host using phpadmin, select your mysql database, usually something like “name_drpl1″. Select all fields, click “export” and save the database to your local harddisk. Leave default options enabled. You will receive a file similar to “name_drpl1.sql”.
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