OK, so I purchased an SMF forum that was fairly active. Domains were transferred to me, I forward the DNS to my server. Put Forum in maintenance mode. Backup all files into a zip on my computer. Backup and restore SQL database to new server. The new server I am using has a domain name registered to it. I put an addon domain for the new domain. So now the files will be under "home"/public_html/newdomain.com So now I am in panelbox of my new server and I am trying to get the files to upload. Do I just "restore a backup"? Will it automatically know to go into my home "home"public_html/newdomain.com I no longer have access to the old files as I have been locked out of the old server.... I only have the one zipped backup. Any feedback is appreciated!
simple way is just to pull the content of public_html out of the zip then place them to your newdomain.com folder