Dear all,
I am new in Drupal and had tried to follow all the documentation about installing Drupal on this site. However, the situation is a bit unique, and while I am constantly trying to learn on how to tackle the problem, seems like I met the end of the road. I hope anyone would be able to help me, appreciate it in advance.
I bought a template for Drupal and had a local designer to modify the template to suit my business profile. The designer used his local environment to run the test page, and showed me the screenshot—it looks good. Now he stopped working for some reason, and sent me the whole pack of files for me so I can migrate it to my web hosting server. I used GoDaddy.com.
This is the steps that I did: (1) upload Drupal 7.7 through FTP, (2) setup mysql database in GoDaddy Hosting Center, (3) run www.hostname.com/install.php, follow all instructions, connect to database, done, (4) tested that Drupal is working in root directory (navigate to www.hostname.com and succeed).
Two things that I expect happening but not happen: (1) migrating the mysql database to web hosting server—I am using mac, and the documentation told me I have to do the database dump, but how? and what kind of file it produce so I can migrate it to the web hosting server via phpMyAdmin? Seems like my designer didn't do the dump, or I just missed the file name (with .sql at the end), (2) when I chose the theme through drupal admin page, it doesn't show what my designer screenshotted except the colour and the logo—is this because I haven't migrate the database/blocks/nodes?
i hope you can help me on this (got tired ping-ponged through the documentation and still haven't figure out what is the problem...). Thanks!
