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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING BACK.
I have tried your instruction, but it didn't work for the virtuemart.

I am moving the site from bluehost to Lunarpages.
I think Mysql version is slightly different. in this way, your instruction wont work?

Thank you for your help.
my test site is
http://www.ayakomaru.com/cms

THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

I just wanted to say thanks for this tip. Everything worked perfectly.

Definitely follow the instructions carefully - its not necessarily tricky - but if you follow them it will work. Of course, we are dealing with hard drives, servers, different versions, and most likely late night/frazzled/novice/reading-the-directions-too-quickly-because-you-have-to-get-this-done-in-20-minutes type of transfers...so things can go wrong. But this was my first Joomla site and transfer from one host to another. It was seamless.

The only thing that I second guessed was this:
"These are the ESSENTIAL FOLDERS to Copy over (and OVERWRITE)"

What exactly is the difference between 'Copy over' and 'OVERWRITE', technically speaking? After exporting the db from the old server/installing joomla to the new server/installing the db to the new server, i used my FTP client (Dreamweaver) and copied over all of those folders (images, templates, admin, etc). Is that the same as OVERWRITING? Everything worked either way.

Anyway...great tutorial. Thanks again!

Copy Over just means you are putting a duplicate of a pre-existing file on another server.
Overwrite means that you are replacing a file of the same name on another server.

If you already have files of the same name on the new server your FTP program might ask you whether you'd like to "overwrite" or "skip" files that already exist -- the option you would choose is "overwrite" since we want to totally replace everything with the correct files.

Hello,

I am having a problem moving my site. I moved over the database and the files, and the new server looks MOSTLY good. However, certain specific features are not working properly. For example, there is an "Upcoming Events" section on the homepage. The old server shows lots of Upcoming Events but the new server homepage says "No events".

redlens, I will send you a private message with the URLs for both servers.

Thank you in advance!!

Edit: As a new user I cannot access the PM feature, so I have sent the details as an email instead.

I have exactly the same problem and I've tried the obvious things like reinstalling Joomla and clobbering the files with fresh 1.0.15 files but still can't get a admin interface with working javascript...

Did anyone work out what causes this problem and what the answer is?

Do'h!

Check your apache error log and make sure the /includes/ directory is readable -- this is what the problem was...

thank you so much for this it has helped me out a ton.

One question...

After I have completed this how do I finish step 4



Also on the new sight I set up when in the back room I am getting a restricted error message when trying to access a lot of the administrative options basically everything but the articles. Is this because I have not finished step 4?

thanks for your help!