Transferring store to Another Host

**stevenw1956** · 26 Feb 2012, 03:27 PM

Hi, I'm new to Zen Cart. I need to transfer a Zen cart to another host for a client. I'm looking for, and have not found, step-by-step instructions for how to carry out such a transfer. I don't know the version of the old cart. I think it might be an older version. Do such step-by-step instructions, exist anywhere?

The old host is shutting down. They sent me a zip file. I thought I should upload all the files in the zip to the new host. But they said, "those are just work/temp files. They sent me a file with an extension of .dmp and said I needed to use that instead of the files in the zip. I don't know what this .dmp file is and whether it contains all the files necessary to make the site work on the new host.

Should I be able to restore a backup of the database make appropriate changes to the configuration files and have the site run?

I created a new Zen cart on GoDaddy already.

Please I need to know how to do this from the beginning.

Thanks

**stevesh** · 26 Feb 2012, 03:44 PM

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=100

If it isn't too late, consider a different hosting option from GoDaddy.

**stevenw1956** · 26 Feb 2012, 04:15 PM

Why do you say to consider a different hosting option?

**stevesh** · 26 Feb 2012, 04:24 PM

GoDaddy has a terrible reputation here and elsewhere as a host for ecommerce or other dynamic database-driven sites. Their sever configuration can be non-standard, causing problems with the operation of your site, and they tend to overfill their shared servers with accounts, causing severely slow page loads.

**stevenw1956** · 27 Feb 2012, 03:23 PM

The client had already committed to GoDaddy before I got involved in the project. I don't know whether he could get out of it at this point.

**RescoCCC** · 28 Feb 2012, 02:19 AM

I don't know what this .dmp file is and whether it contains all the files necessary to make the site work on the new host.

HMM... I always thought this was a type of dump file. Something that is generated when there's an error. You might want to ask them for clarification of what the file contains. Basically, you will need both a copy of the database, (maybe that's what they're calling a .dmp file?), and a complete set of the store files.