Migrating to new hosting company

Posted by pcdoctor on November 25, 2009 at 1:30pm

I am new to drupal. I have a client who wants to transfer is hosting to a different hosting server. He was told this could not be done, however being an IT person - I am certain this is not true... However, I am up to my ears in projects and new to drupal. I can log into the account that was used to develop the site - but not sure about an export.

Any help would greatly be appreciated at this point! He needs an answer asap and is very unhappy with his current host.

Thanks to anyone responding!

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I wrote an article a while

Posted by Chad_Dupuis on November 25, 2009 at 1:46pm

I wrote an article a while back with the basic commands to move a drupal installation to another server. It should get you started. Basically you have to backup the database which you can do from the command line, through phpmyadmin, or just ask the hosting provider to do it and allow you to download the file. Then you just copy the drupal files over to the new server (what's in "htdocs" or whatever your web document root is)...

Cheers,

-Chad.
Yin Yang House Media Services Group

Of course

Posted by yelvington on November 25, 2009 at 1:51pm

Of course you can. Make a database dump, tar up the htdocs file tree, install on any new host that satisfies Drupal's operating requirements, change DNS to point to the new server.

http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate may be of assistance.

The advice above is correct,

Posted by hershel on November 25, 2009 at 3:37pm

The advice above is correct, BUT the one other thing you must do is edit sites/default/settings.php to put in the new MySQL server, database, user and password information.

But that's it--you copy the DB and the files and then just update settings.php to "point" to the new DB.

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ASPX pages to php

Posted by pcdoctor on November 25, 2009 at 3:49pm

right now the site pages are aspx pages and not php - is there a way to convert without redeveloping the site?

Not without a tremendous

Posted by Chad_Dupuis on November 25, 2009 at 4:55pm

Not without a tremendous amount of effort. As this isn't a drupal site, you should figure out what the site was built with and what the hosting requirements are and move the site. It can be moved regardless of what type of site it is, but you'll need to know what you are moving. As it stands, you'll need a hosting provider that uses windows servers - there are many out there....

Cheers,

-Chad.
Yin Yang House Media Services Group

Wrong information

Posted by pcdoctor on November 27, 2009 at 6:37pm

The client provided the wrong informaiton - it is dotNetNuke and not drupal.

Thanks to all who replied!