By mrmagica on

I have a development version of my drupal site which is hosted on siteground.com using a cPanel. I have several other sites installed on the server so this drupal installation does not sit in the root (it sits on www>drupal1).

I want to move my site to a production environment (also on siteground using cPanel). The production environment will only host this 1 site so this install will sit directly in the root (www).

Please could anyone advise how i go about moving the site.

many thanks

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silverwing’s picture

silverwing commented

upload drupal and the modules/themes to the new server (or account) including the /files/ folder.

Export then import the database.

Modify settings.php with the correct database information.

~silverwing

marcus_clements’s picture

marcus_clements commented

Install Backup Migrate module which will export a copy of the database minus cache and session tables (which helps). You can import this data using PHPMyadmin or similar tool

mrmagica’s picture

mrmagica commented

Thanks for pointing out this module - it worked really well. I did have some errors when i first moved imported the database tables but this was becuase I had not uploaded some modules and a couple of modcules had to be updated. Other than that I had the site migrated within a couple of hours.

Many thanks