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Transfering local to remote installation

• leeming
  

  2005-10-24 02:42:53

  Transfering local to remote installation

  We want to transfer a local installation to a remote hosting server by FTP. It has been set up with a public html folder and a MySQL database, in accordance with our config files. We integrated ACollab and the Wiki.
  
  My question is what is the best way to do this. FTP the whole thing and then transfer the database to the host as an SQL or Access file? Or a fresh install and then transfer the config files?
  
  Any advice appreciated.

• joel
  

  2005-10-24 16:38:23

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  Either way should be fine. the only problem will be ensuring that the content directory is world writeable or changing the owner to "nobody" recursively. If you just upload the file via FTP then the webserver will not allow you to delete them using the filemanager because their permissions and owner will be wrong.
  
  The easiest way to fix the content directory would be to login using a shell prompt then issuing the chmod and chown commands.