By macmac80210 on

Hello! I purchased a marketing website and I would like to move the hosting. Right now, it is being hosted by the person that originally designed it. I have purchased a hosting account at GoDaddy and I need to know how to move all of the core files and databases over! I have access to the backend, is there a way to download all of the files from there and then just upload them and the databases to godaddy?

Thanks for your help!

Mac Connolly

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mudsurfer’s picture

mudsurfer commented

You need to have an extract of the database, AND a copy of all the files on the site.

Does your site already have the backup and Migrate module installed? I find that is the far easiest way to handle the database migration.
Let me know if that module is in place.
I can give some steps to follow.

Do you also have FTP access to be able to get a copy of all of your files?

macmac80210’s picture

macmac80210 commented

I was told that the module was installed by the web designer. I will look into the FTP! Thank you!

ayesh’s picture

ayesh commented

Please do not think this is a spam post or I'm hating Godaddy.
But I have seen that many Drupalers here complain about Godaddy's problems.
I have developed some web sites in Godddy hosting without much problems, but it worth to investigate first.

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witchcraft’s picture

witchcraft commented

I agree with Ayesh
you really need to investigate first about it , search in Google about godaddy + drupal.

macmac80210’s picture

macmac80210 commented

Thank you! I appreciate the tip! I will do some research! Do you have any other suggestions as to where I should host it?

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shady_gun commented

Easiest way if you have shell access ..

1. Use backup and migrate and download the database to manuals directory

2. Tar using the command tar -cvf backup.tar public_html(or your drupal root folder) or Zip using cpanel or any other file manager available to you .. Make sure the tar/zip is in your root folder

3. wget from godaddy shell something like wget http://example.com/backup.tar or backup.zip

4. Unpack using tar -xvf backup.tar or unzip backup.zip

5. install drupal on some stock database , Enable backup and migrate and restore database from manuals directory ...