Transferring phpbb to new host

Hammer100

Hammer100

Hammer100

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Hi

Does anyone know how to transfer a phpbb board to a new host?

We have a website which also has a blog and a phpbb board. Transferring the site and the blog (wordpress) is no problem as we have someone who has transferred these types before but not sure about the message board. Tried finding a guide but not found a fairly straight forward one.
We will be transferring our domain name too so would that need to be done first before transferring the website?
Cheers
 
In order to keep everything functioning in regards to any custom themes the easiest bet would be to download the entire phpbb directory and upload it to your new host.

Then take a dump of the mySQL database via phpMyAdmin or any control panel available, and upload it to the new host into a fresh database with the same tools.

If it's between shared hosting you may well have to change some of the database details which I think in phpBB are stored in config.php in the root directory, although that might've changed
 
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