Copying Joomla database from one server to another

[peterattheboro]

Hi guys.

I've been trying to get a website which works perfectly on one domain to work on another server but it just isn't happening.

I've followed this perfectly but I cannot get the site to work

Once I've imported the database and amended the config.php file it's just throwing up random database errors and I cannot fathom as to why?

Would someone be so kind as to take a look for me?

 

[peterattheboro]

That's quite an old guide. You may be better checking the official docs which are likely to be more recent in case the process has changed in newer versions:

http://docs.joomla.org/Copying_a_Joomla_website

Thanks.

It shouldn't matter if the directories are different does it?

In one server the web files are contained in public_html but the other is under httpdocs/sitename/.

But then I've changed the config.php to reflect this.

 

[peterattheboro]

Got it working

Now there's another issue which I'll create another thread for as it's completely seperate