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how to migrate joomla site form local XAMPP to web server.

Post by jaimin_1985 » Mon Nov 01, 2010 1:47 pm

Hello,

I have develop my first joomla site on my local machine in XAMPP.

So what is the procedure to upload the site live in the server.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

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Re: how to migrate joomla site form local XAMPP to web serve

Post by qqqqq » Mon Nov 01, 2010 2:05 pm

Just export the database on the hosting account, with the same name and the same user. After that, make an archive with all your files and post it on the server. Unzip the files and move them to the root. Normally, when you will visit your site, the website sill be visible. I hope I don't forget anything to said.

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Re: how to migrate joomla site form local XAMPP to web serve

Post by jaimin_1985 » Mon Nov 01, 2010 2:10 pm

Thats true,

Don't I need do any DB Connection changes?
They both will be different in local and server.

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Re: how to migrate joomla site form local XAMPP to web serve

Post by dpacadmin » Mon Nov 01, 2010 11:57 pm

Copy the files to the new server, Export the database and Import it to a new database on the server. Edit the configuration.php file and change the database connection credentials to the ones for the new server's database. Change the paths for the logs and tmp folder to the absolute path to them on the server, not their url.

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	/* Database Settings */
	var $dbtype = 'mysql';					// Normally mysql
	var $host = 'localhost';				// This is normally set to localhost
	var $user = '';							// MySQL username
	var $password = '';						// MySQL password
	var $db = '';							// MySQL database name
	var $dbprefix = 'jos_';					// Do not change unless you need to!
You could also use the Akeeba Backup extension to create a backup of your site. Upload the backup file to the root of your site and a kickstart.php file(you can get it from Akeeba Backup's site).

Create a new database on the server and save the database connection details. Open the kickstart.php file in your browser and it will extract your backup file and start a Joomla install of your site, creating a clone of your local site on the server.

When the install asks for your database connection info use the info you saved for your new database. When it asks for your admin name and password use the first super admin name and password you used for your local site. You should now have a clone of your local site on the server.


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