i am new to drupal and set up a nice site on (EXAMPLES) subdomain.hosting.com my domainname i need for that site is (EXAMPLE) www.mysite.com where i have an old site running (not drupal). SO i have drupal 5.1 drunning on subdomain.hosting.com and need to move the whole site to www.mysite.com I am familiar with everything hosting and mysql related, i just need to know whether i can move a drupal installation easily and what do i need to know in regards to drupal.....so the NEW site (formerly subdomain.hosting.com) running on my real domain www.mysite.com fine in a few days. thank you !!!
Try downloading the Backup and Migrate module from the Drupal site. Be sure to read the documentation and try to back up and migrate your site using a "test folder" on your web host. Once you get it working, you will then upload your new site to make it live and do periodic backups to insure you don't lose anything in the case of a corrupt database or something like that.