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How to Move your Joomla! Installation Between Directories

Written by Cory
Monday, 16 October 2006
In How to Lose the Splash Page, I talk about how to move your Joomla! installation between directories on your server. Because the topic was buried in the "Read more..." section of the post, there may be some readers who ignored it or did not read it. If you want to know how to do this, click on over to How to Lose the Splash Page, and scroll down to "Option 1: How to Move Your Installation". Set as favorite Bookmark Email This Hits: 4490 Trackback(0) TrackBack URI for this entry Comments (7) Subscribe to this comment's feed name: ... not very helpful..... 1 report abuse vote down vote up January 27, 2007 Votes: +0 Cory: ... http://www.howtojoomla.net Hi name.... I'm sorry you felt that way. What could I have done to make it more helpful? Also, you don't have to hide your identity. It does not upset me to receive criticism. 2 report abuse vote down vote up January 27, 2007 Votes: +0 Justin: ... Your article assisted me very well Cory. Was very helpful. 3 report abuse vote down vote up March 28, 2007 Votes: +0 Cory: ... http://www.howtojoomla.net Thanks, Justin. I'm glad you found it helpful. 4 report abuse vote down vote up March 28, 2007 Votes: +0 Tom Fox: ... http://www.fineciders.com I found it helpful because it comes up top on google when I type: "moving a joomla site between directories"" 5 report abuse vote down vote up December 03, 2007 Votes: +0 Stewart Paske: ... http://www.smokeradio.co.uk Cory, Is it really as simple to make the transfer as you say it is? Moving the files across and changing the configuration file? I am the web administrator for my Student Radio Station and our website is built on Joomla. I have built a new website on smokeradio.co.uk/beta - will it not go tits-up if I follow these instructions, and if I back up the main page, will it still work if I have to put it back because the transfer of /beta doesn't work? These are tense times for me, as a radio station that only broadcasts online - the website is our only platform to get people listening. If this goes tits up, I am going to have alot to answer for. Any advice? 6 report abuse vote down vote up December 21, 2007 Votes: +0 Cory: ... http://www.howtojoomla.net Hi Stewart, It really is that simple. The best advice I can give you is to do the move at a time when you get the least traffic to your site, so that the move disrupts as few visitors as possible, and remember to backup everything on the original site, just in case something goes "tits-up". I can make no guarantees that everything won't get messed up because I'm not doing the move myself. All I can tell you is that if you follow the directions I gave, it should work. Good luck! Feel free to contact me if things get messed up. Cory 7 report abuse vote down vote up December 21, 2007 Votes: +0 Write comment Name Email Website Comment smaller \| bigger Subscribe via email (Registered users only) I have read and agree to the Terms of Usage.

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