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Jul 24

2007

Backup your Joomla site or move to a different server

Posted by Administrator in tutorial, server, howto , database, backup

Since I recently did this for a client, I thought I'd create a quick (well, maybe not so quick) and easy (ok, not so easy either) tutorial on how you can backup your Joomla site and move it to a new web host.

Since Joomla is made up mostly of files and folders with a MySQL database, we'll want to backup both. The best way to start is to create a backup folder on your PC and then:

1. Using FTP, copy your Joomla site's configuration.php file over into your backup folder.

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