Transferring My Forum

[swood]

I finally have enough money to purchase a paid host. Because i was with FreeForums previously i had to purchase a 1 month account with HostGator to have access to the database. But i want to transfer my forum to JustHost now. How do i do that? This is the first time i've used a real host before

www.anythingforum.co.nr

Thanks

 

[Raymond]

Personally I have heard bad reviews from JustHost, I would advise you to go webhostingtalk.com which is where most people go to read up on customer reviews etc.. But to be honest I'd highly recommend going to HawkHost. But WHT can help!

 

[Taz]

make a back up of everything and just upload it to your new host

 

[swood]

make a back up of everything and just upload it to your new host

I've download a 6.2MB tar file. So i just upload that and job done? Cool thanks for that Taz

 

[Taz]

If you made a full backup click restore backup in the cpanel, if not just upload the files and the mysql in the right place. I have my own hosting if you need an extra.

 

[sapper]

If you made a full backup click restore backup in the cpanel, if not just upload the files and the mysql in the right place. I have my own hosting if you need an extra.

I would be very careful doing this as it is not a guaranteed success.

Transferring with the same host can be quite successful, trasferring from one host to a different one has it's pitfalls, evrything has to be exacty the same for it to go across, that includes MODS.

 

[Taz]

You have to deactivate all mods first

 

[CyberFreak]

No you don't.

Download a copy of all the files from your current host then upload them all to the new host. Go into phpmyadmin on the old host and click the database your forum is in. Click the export tab and then click go and it will download a copy of the db. The go to the new host and create a new database through cpanel and a new db user and assign that user to the new db. Then go into phpmyadmin and click the new database and click the import tab. Select the sql file from your computer and then click go and wait.

When it is restored alter the config.php file with the new db information.

This might be of help - http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/transfe ... or-domain/

If you follow this then you will not lose any mods and they shouldn't cause any issues.

 

[sapper]

No you don't.

Download a copy of all the files from your current host then upload them all to the new host. Go into phpmyadmin on the old host and click the database your forum is in. Click the export tab and then click go and it will download a copy of the db. The go to the new host and create a new database through cpanel and a new db user and assign that user to the new db. Then go into phpmyadmin and click the new database and click the import tab. Select the sql file from your computer and then click go and wait.

When it is restored alter the config.php file with the new db information.

This might be of help - http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/transfe ... or-domain/

If you follow this then you will not lose any mods and they shouldn't cause any issues.

This will only work with small db's and has to be done in 10mb chunks, for anything larger you need something like bigdump ?.
I tried to do exactly what you described, and failed, my new hosts attempted the same and failed, it's a very hit and miss affair, just my experience thats all, not meant as a criticism.

 

[el canadiano]

http://www.forumansion.com/showthread.php?tid=10010
http://www.forumansion.com/showthread.php?tid=10011

That should get you covered.