Are there any tricks to transferring Joomla to a new server? I'm hoping that it's as easy as transferring the db and the directory, and it should run fine, right?
It's fairly simple. I transfer Joomla sites from my projects server to live client servers. Here's what I do,
1) Export the database.
2) Copy off the Joomla directory.
3) Import the database.
4) Upload the Joomla directory.
5) Edit the configuration.php with any server changes, absolute_path, cachepath, db, host, live_site, password, and/or user.
Haven't had any problems with this method, as of yet. Good luck!
There was another good thread that was discussing this subject but I cannot find it now.
Cheers and best of luck!
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