Lipat Bahay - Moving a Simple Drupal Site from One Server to Another via SSH
This transfer of Drupal site is when changing a web host company. The same process when transferring to a machine within the same web host but do not include the server configuration.
Back to topFrom the Origin Server
/sites/default/
then open the settings.php
file.
To open: sudo nano settings.php
Scroll down to database settings and copy the following:
origin_database_name
origin_database_user
origin_database_password
Go inside backups folder of the home directory, mkdir backups
if none.
Create database backup:
mysqldump -u origin_database_user origin_database_name -p > database_backup_name.sql
Enter the origin_database_password
when asked.
Create file backup:
tar -czvf file_backup_name.tar.gz /directory/path/of/Drupal/site/
Copy database_backup_name.sql
and file_backup_name.tar.gz
to the destination server using scp
command. Here are the instructions on how to copy files via scp command.
To the Destination Server
destination_database_name
, destination_database_user
, destination_database_password
.
Import database_backup_name.sql
mysql -u destination_database_user -p -D destination_database_name < database_backup_name.sql
Enter the destination_database_password
when asked.
Uncompress the files to backups
folder
tar -xf file_backup_name.tar.gz
cd file_backup_name/Drupal...folder/sites/default
Change permission to move and edit the file
chmod 777 settings.php
cd file_backup_name/Drupal...folder/
Move the files to public Drupal directory
sudo mv * /path/to/new/Drupal/site/
sudo mv .htaccess /path/to/new/Drupal/site/
Edit the settings
cd /path/to/new/Drupal/site/
sudo nano settings.php
Scroll down to the database array and replace the origin credentials with the appropriate destination credentials.
- From
origin_database_name
todestination_database_name
- From
origin_database_user
todestination_database_user
- From
origin_database_password
todestination_database_password
Revert permission to non-writable after saving the file
sudo chmod 444 settings.php
Done.