Moving a local Magento installation to a shared hosting


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Hey

Does anyone know how to move a local Magento installation to a shared location? Ive tried but I cant seem to get some things to work (such as content layout and such...)

Thank you!

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I'm a bit confused, are you trying to move the installation from a local environment to a server environment ?

Though if you have a hosting account with a service provider offering manager services, you may ask their support department to do it for you. But if they don't offer manager services, following are steps that you can follow :

  • Decrease the TTL settings for your domain name to maybe 500-600 seconds (10 minutes). This can help you reduce the time taken for switching nameservers (NS records) or A records
  • Ensure that no updates are made to the website until the migration is complete
  • Backup your Magento installation over your local machine
  • Backup the database from phpMyAdmin and navigating to Export page to create SQL dump.
  • Backup the app/etc/local.xml as it holds the necessary details about database connections
  • Upload all this to the new location over the server
  • Do every necessary upgrade to Magento version and PHP version
  • Now after loggin into the system, import the database using the phpMyAdmin tool
  • In phpMyAdmin, update your Base URL Login to phpMyAdmin, navigate to the core_config_data table, and change the values of the fields with 'web/unsecure/base_url' and 'web/secure/base_url' path
  • Edit the app/etc/local.xml file by entering correct database connection details saved earlier and replace everything with the new details.

Hope this helps.

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shared location

might not affect you as it depends on your hosting company but when I ran Magento for a client on a shared web hosting I had the hosting company asking me to try and reduce the CPU usage of the site or they would disable my account. just something to watch out for.

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