Moving an entire website -

Backlight 4, 5 & 6 Support
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I currently have a website that is roughly 9200 Megabytes in size, and due to a number of reasons, I will be keeping my domain name with the current ISP but I will be pointing the domain to a location where I will not be charged as much for storage space.

My question is, how can I move my entire backlight site from where it currently resides to a new location. I have tried to do this (unsuccessfully) with a much smaller site – only 3 albums – so rebuilding was not a big deal.

Can this be done

And can it be done easily?

Thanks

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That’s pretty massive. If you can get the new host to effect the transfer, that’s usually the easiest thing. Otherwise, might be good to ZIP the site, move the zip file, then UNZIP it in the new location.

Couldn’t hurt to ask AI for advice. Here’s a Gemini response about it.

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I have completed most of these steps, however CLI to the database is ‘not in my skillset’ :thinking:

My current host does provide me a straightforward way to export the database. which I have completed (.sql)

At this point 100% of the files are on my synology in the final location, my DB has been exported.

Not sure how to proceed

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Sounds like you need the database imported to the new site, yes? @Ben can probably tell you how to do that.

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UPDATE

at this point I think AI made it more complicated that it needed to be

Once I copied the entire “publichtml” directory off the original host and put it in the new directory on my synology and completed the necessary web service set up the website worked 100% correctly with nothing other than a “copy and paste”

I will continue testing / playing, but so far every page opens as it should, I can add and edit albums directly thru backlight etc.

-—>optimistic at the moment

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Yes, just copying the entire installation to a new location and updating the admin settings is all you need. No database export etc.

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