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How to move a vB forum?

Discussion in 'vBulletin' started by audible, Jun 24, 2006.

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    I'm currently hosting my vBulletin forum on a server with several other sites. The traffic has increased quite a bit lately and I'd like to move my forum to its own server so it doesn't bog down all my other sites. Has anyone had experience in doing this? I can't seem to find any guides on how to move a vB forum to a different server.
     
    audible, Jun 24, 2006 IP
  2. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    It really wouldn't be a vBulletin issue... you just need to move the PHP files and the MySQL database for it (and change DNS accordingly).
     
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  3. mikelbeck

    mikelbeck Well-Known Member

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    Right, what he said.

    I've done it a bunch of times.

    1. Copy all the php files from the old server to the new server.
    2. Disable access to the old forum.
    3. Fire up phpMyAdmin, get a dump of the old database.
    4. Create the new database on the new server, using the same login information. If you don't, you'll have to change the values in includes/config.php to match the new information.
    5. Restore the database on the new server.
    6. Change the domain record to point to the new server.
    7. Enable access to the forum on the new server. People who go to the old server (before the DNS updates everywhere) will get the "disabled" message, people who get to the new server will be able to log in.

    Give a yell if you need a hand doing it, like I said I've done it a bunch of times and work (relatively) cheap. ;-)
     
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    audible Peon

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    Great, I think I got it. Thanks!
     
    audible, Jun 24, 2006 IP