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Have a client asking for me to move their Joomla site from register.com to bluehost.com. Is everything in the DB? I was imaging deploying a fresh Joomla at bluehost.com via SimpleScripts and importing a DB backup from register.com. Is this feasible? I'd like to overwrite Joomla app files on bluehost.com so that SimpleScripts can manage upgrades in the future. Is this the best way?

HopelessN00b
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Bret Fisher
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The majority of the content is stored in the database, but this excludes uploaded content: attachments, images, themes and stylesheets and the configuration.php all of which live in the Joomla directory.

There is also a guide in the official documentation on how to do this: http://docs.joomla.org/Copying_a_Joomla_website

James Yale
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Do a MySQL dump of the database that Joomla uses. You can find out the name of this database by looking in the root directory for the Joomla installation for a file configuration.php. Look in there for the DB name. After you do the MySQL dump, place that .sql file in the root Joomla directory. Then create a compressed tar file.

Then give the compressed tar file to Bluehost to do the migration for you.

To do backups of the Joomla website in the future, write a shell script and put it in the CRON to do the MySQL dump and compressed tar file. Then do an rsync for off-site backup.

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