Moving Content Mangement Systems - Is this possible?

Hey All, I have been wondering if there is a convenient way to move the entire contents of a blog site or a content management site from one server to the other? If have built a considerable site elsewhere and want to bundle it up and move it but I don't want to hassle and fuss with rebuiling everything from scratch. Any ideas? I suppose this would also include moving databases. cheers hashbang

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I have done it this way and it worked out fine but required some editing.

First I downloaded the entire site to my hard drive cgi-bin and all, and then did a backup of the databases and save them too. I located all the code on any page that pointed to the old sub-domain and changed those including links.

I created new databases with the same names and login as the old ones at the new site and restored the backups. I then entered the admin panels of the forum etc. and edited the content of the database fields to match the new site.

It took me a few days but I did not have to remake the site.

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I did exactly what rudy did, although, its much easier if you link you site like this:
<a href="forums">

rather than

<a href="http://www.astahost.com/forums">

As then you do not have to change all the links.

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If the backup feature of CPanel is usable then you can move files easily to another server(providing that that server has CPanel on it too) if you didn't change your domain name or URL(if you just migrated from server to server).

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You can use CuteFTP enter Origin site (the one from wich u want to copy) select files and right click==>download advanced==>server to server enter target server account info and press ok if some of the files exist (cpanel files) u simple overwright them !!
Piece of cake !!

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last thing will not solve database shizzle.
you'll hava to export your database (with phpmyadmin) to a sql file.
then you'll have to make sure that your databaseserver is correct, (if it was localhost, it should work ok. then create a new database using the sql file
then create a user and a password and make sure he has the rights to access the db in all ways you want him to be able. then adjust your code. if you use a config file that has all these settings (dbserver, dbname, dbuser, dbpass,...), it's easy, you only have to adsjust it once. if you're a bad programmer, you'll have to do it many times

last thing is to check the rights on the folders. but that should be ok in most of the cases.

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