Transfers

[kyle]

I already have a forum on another paid host. Is it possible to transfer the forum on my paid host to my the host that I am using with heliohost?

[Ashoat]

Yes. You'll need to extract the DB and import it in HelioHost. The import can be accomplished through PHPMyAdmin.

[kyle]

where do I find PHPMyAdmin? Is it an add-on?

 

okay i've found it. What do I do from there? Is there like a step by step guide?

[1337]

1. Log into phpMyAdmin on your OLD host.

2. Select your database from the drop-down.

3. Click the Export tab.

4. You can leave all the settings as is, but check the Save as File box.

5. Wait for you to download the .sql file.

6. Log into HelioHost cPanel.

7. Create a new DB in the MySQL section if you haven't already.

7.5. Create a new mySQL user (preferably the same name as the DB) and assign it all privileges to the database.

8. Log into phpMyAdmin and select that database.

9. Either click Import (if it's there) or the SQL tab if there's no import button (I forgot what it was on the HH phpmyadmin version)

10. Click browse and find the .sql file and submit.

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11. Log into FTP on your old host.

12. Download the files for your forum. (single-click the folder that it's in and right-click download)

13. (assuming your forum is phpBB) Open Notepad or any other text editor and edit config.php to the database info for HelioHost.

Database Server/Host: localhost

Database name: See the name in cPanel to the database you made (in step 7) (it's in the format of cpanelusername_db)

Database username: The one you created in step 7.5.

Database password: Whatever password you made in step 7.5.

14. Log onto FTP on Heliohost. (Host: heliohost.org User/Pass: Your cPanel login data)

15. Upload that folder with the all forum files into your public_html folder.

16. Go to yourdomain.heliohost.org/dir OR just yourdomain.heliohost.org if you put the contents directly in public_html.

17. Enjoy!

[kyle]

okay thanks.