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kir41911

2009-08-24, 09:57 PM
How can I move a busy forum with thousands of threads to a new website host?
New site will be LAMP (linux, apache, MySQL, and PHP).

Can someone outline the steps to ensure that the forum data accumulated so far is not lost?

Thanks so much!

Kirk

Matt

2009-08-24, 10:46 PM
1. Backup files and database
2. If the URL will change, update the Board URL and Cookie settings; if it won't be changing, ignore this step.
3. Make a new database and import your backup to it.
4. Upload the files to the new host.
5. Edit the database details in ./inc/config.php to what the new details are.
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