XF 2.1 How Do I Move My Site To A New Domain and Host

[Mbonu]

Good day house, so weeks ago I created a post after i discovered 99% of my post and articles, thousand of post, thread are not being indexed. See thread here https://xenforo.com/community/threads/google-stop-indexing-my-site-help-needed.227020/ . Is frustrating and sad to say, we have choose to moved to another domain and host and need best guide on how we can move our site to new domain and hosting

Thanks

 

[philmckrackon]

Most new host will move you for no charge as a courtesy for choosing their services.
Are you currently on an unmanaged or managed host and are you moving to an unmanaged or managed host?
If you are unmanaged and have WHM cPanel access it is quite easy to do a transfer.
The one thing you have to do is change your registrar to point to the new host or give your new host access so they can make the necessary changes. It may take up to 48 hours for the change to take affect but usually it is just a few hours.

Unmanaged:

 

[Mbonu]

Most new host will move you for no charge as a courtesy for choosing their services.
Are you currently on an unmanaged or managed host and are you moving to an unmanaged or managed host?
If you are unmanaged and have WHM cPanel access it is quite easy to do a transfer.
The one thing you have to do is change your registrar to point to the new host or give your new host access so they can make the necessary changes. It may take up to 48 hours for the change to take affect but usually it is just a few hours.

Unmanaged:
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Thanks, but only have CPANEL No WHM. how best can I do it

 

[philmckrackon]

What is your new host?

 

[Mbonu]

What is your new host?

Namecheap. But moving out from Name cheap. Have moved the files and database but getting error

An unexpected database error occurred. Please try again later.

 

[ScrapBlox]

An unexpected database error occurred. Please try again later.

When you got things moved to the new host did you import the database? If so the database name, user, password probably changed so I would try updating the config.php located {xf root}/src/config.php

 

[Mbonu]

When you got things moved to the new host did you import the database? If so the database name, user, password probably changed so I would try updating the config.php located {xf root}/src/config.php

Please what should I update the config.php located {xf root}/src/config.php
to. Let me give it a try. PLEASE

 

[ScrapBlox]

what should I update the config.php located {xf root}/src/config.php
to

I don't know how XF 2.1 config is setup but 2.3 looks like this and you would fill in the information that can be used to connect to the database (you should be able to find the database name and username from CPanel MySQL Databases)

$config['db']['host'] = 'localhost'; // Database host usually can leave this as is
$config['db']['port'] = '3306'; // Database port usually can leave this as is
$config['db']['username'] = ''; // Database username
$config['db']['password'] = ''; // Database password for user
$config['db']['dbname'] = ''; // Replace this with the name of the database

 

[philmckrackon]

What plan do you have and who moved the files? Earlier you stated you had cPanel on your current server HERE.
Why not let Namecheap do the move? They offer it for free.



Also, the DB cofig is the same in XF 2.1x, 2.2x and 2.3x

In the cPanel what do the data bases show?




What does the config.php file look like?

Don't worry about giving out this information. When you are done configuring the two settings they will be unique to your installation.