By sdbeach137 on

I am trying to move a Drupal site from one server on Godaddy, to another hosting server other than goDaddy.

The new hosting server will host the files only and NOT the database which will remain on goDaddys database server.

I assume that the database settings would stay the same. It appears that the site is still broken probably do to relative paths.

Is this correct about the links causing the problem and how do I go about fixing these paths.

Thank you for your help in this matter!

Scott

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john_b commented

if you really mean Drupal 8 I do not know. Normally the first requirement is to read the documentation before attempting to migrate a site, or if you prefer not to read documentation, you can often get away with it provided you clear caches after the move.

Also you might ask GoDaddy support about how this works. It is probably useless, I have been shocked at the quality of support a client is getting from another large American hosting company where my client spends a lot their own server....

Note that with Drupal once you have cleared caches there should be no absolute paths in the database (unlike Wordpress) so what you seek to do should be fairly easy provided your new server has access to the database server. Double-check that you have successfully copie across .htaccess, it is often missed.

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sdbeach137 commented

Thank you for your reply. I searched the documentation and didn't find a lot on migrating the site but not moving the database. I assumed that I just needed to move the files and it would work, since the database did not move.

I am very new to Drupal and you're right, my background is in Wordpress so perhaps I am over complicating things like Wordpress makes you do!

I will clear the cache again and check the .htaccess file like you suggested. I think i will skip the GoDaddy support as you have already given me a thousand times the support as what I would get from them!

Thanks again for your help!

Scott