Moving Joomla Site From Your Local Host to Live Server
How to
This post illustrates step by step procedures to help you backup your Joomla site using JoomlaPack, and upload it to a new server without any problems =)
1. Install Joomlapack in your localhost. JoomlaPack is a powerful backup utility that compresses all your files to a single zip file.
2. Backup your localhost site using Joomlapack. The output will be a zip file.
3. Unzip the file and upload all the files to your server.
4. Point to your server URL. (http://phpmysql.guru/ etc)
5. Enter the new Database name (the one you use in localhost does not matter anymore). Before, this, make sure you create the database in your Cpanel first.
6. The installation will now duplicate all the entries you have in your localhost and install in your server, easy =)
Thank you for this great add-on, JoomlaPack Team =)
So does this also mean that I do not have to have all of the Joomla package in my webserver? Instead, are you saying that I could install Joomla in my local drive and create my site on my computer, test it using localhost and then use JoomlaPack to pack it up and send it to my webserver? If that is the case, that would be great and more secure since I am not leaving any of the administrative folders on my server.
Obviously I won’t be able to make any changes using the administrator panel remotely from another location, which may defeat the purpose of having the ability to supply content by different users.
But can you please clarify this.
Secondly, even if I have Joomla installed on my server, can I use JoomlaPack to move the frontpage so that when my user type in http://myurl.com the index page will be picked up from the base URL instead of http://myurl.com/joomla
Thank you,
Hi Reji, JoomlaPack will output a zip file for you. You will be able to use this .zip file to install and create a copy of your joomla site in another environment. The most hassle free approach I use nowadays.
For your second question, there may be better alternatives other than using JoomlaPack. For me, I would use JoomlaPack for this migration.
Thanks for your tutorial, but I have a problem. When I get to Setup Database – Site’s Main Database, I enter all the necessary information, but get the error message in the end: Could not connect to database… The only place I am not sure about is database host name? Is this my website`s name or not? Could you please help me?
Thanks in advance,
regards
Hello Julia,
usually, database name is localhost if the database server hosted on the same server.
Also you can ask this question on your Hosting support if localhost will be broken too.
Best Regards,
Aleksey.
Thank you, Aleksey. I have just recently come to this thing
thanks. I have a couple of question that are a bit off this topic, but could I still ask you? And one thing more, would you like to communicate in English or in Russian? 
Best,
Julia
I think If we will use this site we should communicate in English.
My skype id is aleksey.vv if you want to speak in Russian.
Thanks
Hi Aleksey. Your tutorial looks easy to follow and well-explained and I thought JoomlaPack would be the answer to my problems. Except that I am unable to open the compressed file containing the site because it’s NOT a .ZIP file, but something called a .JPA
This seems to be a proprietary form of .ZIP specifically developed by JoomlaPack for web use. I’ve put the .JPA on the remote server but can’t do a thing with it… Can you give me any pointers?
regards, MIKE
Hello Mike,
you ca download latest component version from component home page.
joomlapack.net/download/JoomlaPack-Components-download.html
I can see that this files in zip format.
regards,
Aleksey.
thanks for the simple guide.
I’m trying to unzip the zip file made by joompack and i’m getting warnings that all the files are corrupted. any idea what might be the problem?
thanks
Your article is totaly abracadabra to me. How do you start this Jomla pack on you PC why is there no “.exe”.
when i upload the files from the local system to the server this is the error i’m getting
C:\Inetpub\vhosts\miservice.info\httpdocs\index.php on line 21
and i changed the configuration.php file also…
what may be the wrong…can u please help me
Hello Aleksey,
if i migrate my local joomla website from my local system to an external web hosting, will i be able to modify the website time to time,
like i can do with my local website, by login as admin and can change any thing add new articles and so on.
please give me some idea
Best Regards
Rabi
Hi,
I am Writting a website by using Joomla. I would like to ask you that when I create various pages that constitute my site, how shall I compile all of my web pages and Databases used (contributes my web site)?
In order to upload it into the web Server.
Hello Amit,
JoomlaStart is a tool that will help you install/upgrade Joomla software much faster just by uploading one file on your server and running it!
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/610/details