Moving your Joomla Site can be very time consuming. You will need to ensure that where you move your Joomla Site to you cover the following things:
1. Your version of PHP is supported
2. Your version of MySQL is supported.
3. Typically mod_rewrite Apache module support.
This process can be very easy or difficult.
Steps:
1. Backup your database.
2. Backup your content. (This is the files store in your httpdocs folder)
3. Get the new location server credentials.
4. Upload your content to the new server.
5. Make sure permissions are set correctly. (This can be done through the file manager or ssh if you have console access)
You would use the commands "chmod" and "chown".
6. Restore your database using phpMyAdmin.
7. Done.
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