Migrate Drupal Installation from Desktop to Server
Kenny Robinson
2011-08-12
Updated 2023-01-21
1 minute read
194 words
Well it is very easy to migrate drupal site which you have in your computer using WAMP. Just need to follow the following steps.
- You will have to upload all the files of drupal from your computer to your webspace using ftp client i.e filezilla or cuteftp etc...
- Then login to cPanel >> go to Mysql databases >> create new database and database user and add database user in to database.
- Create database backup of your local computer in .sql format.
- Then go to phpmyadmin in cpanel and import .sql file in to the database that you have just created.
- Here is the main important part now. You will have to edit following line in to settings.php file as specified below.
$db_url = 'mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename';
Source: http://www.servertechs.net/how-to-migrate-drupal-site-from-your-local-computer-to-the-server.html