fried-chicken

hi,

Is it possible to transfare a forum over, with all content intact to a new hosting provider?

if so, how difficult is this process

cheers

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Hitch

It's very easy.

Before you change host, go into your forums' admin panel, if your forums wants the path/url to your forum, change this to your new domain.

However, if you are keeping the same domain, you don't need to do the above, unless you are moving the forum into a different directory as before.

Then, do a database backup, either via the forum admin panel, or cPanel.

Then, download all the forums files to your PC, including templates, images etc.

On your new host/FTP, upload all your forum files, (the ones you download from your old FTP)

Then, in your forum admin panel, there may be a way to "restore" a database, just select the saved back and click restore/upload or whatever it may be.

If you forum software doesn't have this feature within your forums admin panel, do the following...

Go into cPanel, or something similar, make a database with the same name, passwords etc as the previous database (if you want to avoid changing the DB settings in your forums configuration.php files)

Then, open up PhpMyAdmin, select the database from the dropdown list, click the "import" tab on the main window, select the backup file, then click upload/submit.

Done.

That should be it.

If you want any help, just ask.

Adrian

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