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Trasferring your Drupal website
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 19:59
Here is the process of transferring the Drupal site from your local machine (or another webhost) to DVH.
1. Take a Mysql DB export/backup of your existing site through phpmyadmin or some other tool (before export first empty the following tables: accesslog, all tables starting with 'cache', watchdog)
2. Login to DVH cpanel >> MySQL Database Wizard >> Create a new DB/user
3. DVh Cpanel >> Mysql Databases >> to view the actual DB and user names, since those created in Step 2 get automatically prefixed with the account username
4. DVH Cpanel>>phpmyadmin >> select the Database >> Import the DB backup created in Step 1
5. Connect to your DVH account via FTP >> Navigate to the public_html/ directory >> upload all your Drupal files (ensure that the .htaccess file gets transferred as well, and its size is more than 0 bytes)
6. Go to 'public_html/sites/default/settings.php' and modify the database connection line to the values that youe got in Step 4
7. Access your website :)
Hope that was helpful. Feel free to post your experiences and any tips and tricks regarding the process.
I've just gone through this process, transferring files from an old host to DVH.
Anyway, using an FTP program, in my case Smart FTP, which is a free download for personal use, I discovered that it is possible to directly transfer files from one host to another effectively bypassing your local computer. This speeds things up drastically. Here in Australia, our upload speeds are woeful and that's not going to change any time soon.
Transferring a heap of images should not be a problem and certainly quicker than re-uploading them.