Site Transfer to Hosting Australia Print

To transfer your site over to Hosting Australia you will need to know the following information

Current Host Cpanel or equivalent site management page.
Domain Management - Have access to the domain to change the NameServers to point the domain to Hosting Australia.
(this is assuming you manage the domain. Alternately Transfer the domain to Hosting Australia and we will manage it all for you)

Refer to this link on Domains and how to manage them
http://clients.hosting-australia.com/knowledgebase.php?action=displaycat&catid=3


Archive Website

1. Log into your current Cpanel or Website management page.
2. Go into File Manager and click into public_html or wwwroot depending on what sort of server the host
            is running. This is where your site is located.
3. Select all files and click "compress" button. This will zip up your site and create a file with .zip on the
            end.
4. Download this file. Usually, right-click and download will work. If not then select the zip file and click
            the download button.

Archive Database

1. From Cpanel go to phpMyAdmin to open the Database administrator.
2. Select your database.
3. Click Export. This will create and download a file xxx.sql (this is your database file)
4. store both the site.zip and the database.sql files somewhere on your computer

Transfer Site to the new server.

1. Log into Cpanel on our server.
2. Go into File Manager and click into public_html. This folder should be empty or maybe have a cgi-bin
            folder and nothing else.
3. Click the upload button (top of page)
4. Find and select your site.zip file and upload it.
5. Once uploaded go back into the file manager.
6. Select the zip file and click "Extract" this will unzip the file.
7. Click Reload to refresh the page and you should now have all your site files in the directory.

Upload Database

1. In Cpanel click MySQL Databases.
2. Create a database and a user and assign the user to the database. Make note of the password.
3. Go back to cPanel and click phpMyAdmin to open the database window.
4. select the new database you have created
5. Click Import
6. Find and select the database.sql file on your computer and click GO
7. This will import your database into your new site.

Configuration.

1. Go back to file manager
2. Find the configuration file.
           º Joomla - configuration.php
           º WordPress - wp-config.php
           º Other CMS programs will have a similar file.
3. Change the following settings to connect your site to the database.   (These settings were set when
           you created the database.
   
   WORDPRESS:
   define('DB_NAME', 'accountname_dbname'); Use your own Database name
   define('DB_USER', 'accountname_user'); Use your own Username
   define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password'); Use the password generator to create a strong password
   define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
   
   $table_prefix = 'r235_'; Table prefix in your database
   
   JOOMLA:
   public $host = 'localhost';
   public $user = 'accountname_user';
   public $password = 'password';
   public $db = 'accountname_user';
   public $dbprefix = 'pjqs9_';