Moving Joomla to a new host

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I have a friend that asked me to move her Joomla site to new hosting. Is this a difficult task with Joomla? What are the pitfalls. I’ve moved WordPress sites many times and know there are lots of issues.

Thanks!

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Where’s the site going to be moved to? I guess it depends…

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It’s usually very easy. Just make sure you get EVERYTHING copied.

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I’ve always used Joomlapack (now Akeebabackup - http://www.akeebabackup.com/).

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The process is pretty much the same, backup files + database

Upload new files to new host, import database and update config settings (paths etc)

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We’ve moved a few of these sites lately. If you have issues after the move, try clearing the joomla cache and optimizing the mysql database from within PHPmyadmin.