Moving forums to a new server!

[CordlezToaster]

Im going to move my Vbulletin forums from my crappy godaddy account to a hostica account im just wondering are there any guides on what i need to do to transfer everything?

basically its a linux server to a linux server transfer.

cheeers

[Interdit]

Hello,

Ask your new host to assist you.

Otherwise, in summary:

0) Change the namerservers of your domain.
1) Close your board with a nice message: 'we are moving, dns are propagating...'
2) Move the files over via ftp (if it's a large amount of data do that before 0) )
3) Move the mysql database
4) Adjust the config.php on the new server.
5) Reopen the board.
6) Enjoy.

For a smoother move, try to have same version of Mysql on both sides.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Please see our manual: Moving Servers (http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/moving_servers)

[CordlezToaster]

I noticed the guide says you need telnet access, if you dont have this then i can understand the need to get my host to help me but will phpmyadmin do the same job?

cheeers

[Steve Machol]

If you don't have telnet or SSH access, some people have reported success with these scripts:

MySQLDumper:
http://www.mysqldumper.de/en/index.php

MySQLHotxcopy:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=134821&highlight=mysqlhotcopy

Bigdump:
http://www.ozerov.de/bigdump.php