Moving site home from WebHost - Help needed
 

Hi,

I feel the time has come for myself to host my own site. I have a server prepared at home, but before I move my domain's pointing to my home server, I would like to get all my stuff transfered.

I have a Joomla and a Geeklog site, and a Coppermine Photo gallery, and an SMF forum. What do I do in order to move all things seemlessly?

My idea is to move all databases to my home server, and when all is functional, move the Domain name to point to my home DNS.

How can I achieve this? I backed up all MYSQL databases, but not sure what to do now. If I just import them, it will obviously not work, right? I mean at home I only have an IP address, and I guess the links between my various sites are bound to a domain name. Please keep in mind that I am a rather neewbie, with limited linux experience.

Thanks for all help,
Ben

I think it would be almost impossible to foresee all URL/links details that may have to be adjusted after a move. I suggest you set up your site at your own server and acess it, to begin with, locally within your LAN and check it for full functionality, parallell to the old public site. Finally, you should be able to forecast full functionality after just switching the domain from the old to the new server. I've never done this myself, but somebody may perhaps confirm, or disagree, please?

Hi

Yes, I am on it right now. I dumped all MYSQL databases, and I imported them back to my own MYSQL server at home. Now, I am doing a full home-dir backup from the Host, and I will copy it as-is to the local server, and see how it goes. I will try to access it from the LAN first, and like you said if works, I will attempt to change the Public Domain over.

ALso another concern is the Mail server. Hmm.. not even sure where to start...

Thanks for any suggestions,

Ben