{"id":24280,"date":"2022-02-02T14:28:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T14:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/how-to-migrate-joomla-site-from-old-server-to-a-new-server\/"},"modified":"2023-10-19T12:53:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T12:53:09","slug":"how-to-migrate-joomla-site-from-old-server-to-a-new-server","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/1grid.co.za\/knowledge\/how-to-migrate-joomla-site-from-old-server-to-a-new-server\/","title":{"rendered":"How to migrate Joomla! Site from Old Server to a New Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">This article provides you with steps to migrate your Joomla website to a new control panel.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><strong>Step 1\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Backup old Joomla! Website<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">The first thing you need to backup all files of your old website Joomla! installation. Make a folder on windows and download all files to that folder using FTP. You can use the \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/how-to-download-files-using-filezilla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FileZilla client to download<\/a> the files from the old server.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><strong>Step 2<\/strong> &#8211; Backup or Export Old Joomla! database<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">In your Web hosting Control panel, you will find the PhpMYAdmin in the Database Section. This will help you to <a href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/cpanel-how-to-export-your-mysql-database\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Export the Database from Old Server<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><strong>Step 3 &#8211;<\/strong> Edit the configuration.php<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Open the folder where you saved the Old Joomla! files, in that folder you will find the \u00a0\u201cconfiguration.php\u201d. Open this file with a Notepad or Word pad, and make the necessary changes. \u00a0The following argument are necessary for the Joomla! to run on a new server.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">$host\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u2013 New Database host. In most of the time, this will be \u201clocalhost,\u201d but if you are using a different server for your database, you \u00a0need to change this value.\n<strong>$user\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 \u00a0New Database user. Change this if it is different from the user on your other server.\n<strong>$password <\/strong>\u00a0 \u2013 New Database user\u2019s password.\n<strong>$db <\/strong>\u2013 New Database name.\n<strong>$tmp_path <\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Absolute path to the tmp directory on your server. It look like \u201c\/path\/to\/joomla\/installation\/tmp.\u201d\n<strong>$log_path <\/strong>\u2013 Absolute path to the logs directory on your server. It \u00a0look \u00a0like \u201c\/path\/to\/joomla\/installation\/logs.\u201d\n<strong>$live_site \u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 This \u00a0is optional. You can \u00a0leave it blank, but if you use it, this is the URL of your site. It will \u00a0look like \u201chttp:\/\/www.example.com\u201d or \u201chttp:\/\/www.example.com\/joomla.\u201d<\/span><\/span>\n\n<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><strong>Step 4\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Upload all file to the new server<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Upload all files that you have downloaded from Old Server to <a href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/how-to-upload-files-using-ftp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Sever by using the FileZilla Client<\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><strong>Step 5\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Import old \u00a0database to the new Control Panel<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Create the New database with the same name that you mentioned in the configuration.php. Import the old Joomla! <a href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/how-to-import-a-mysql-database\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">database to New server by using the PhpMyAdmin.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article provides you with steps to migrate your Joomla website to a new control panel. \u00a0 Step 1\u00a0&#8211; Backup old Joomla! Website \u00a0 The first thing you need to backup all files of your old website Joomla! installation. 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