Complete Guidelines for How to Migrate Opencart to New Server

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Step by Step OpenCart Migration to a New Server
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OpenCart is one of the simplest and loveliest
e-commerce platforms. In this blog post we want
to present a detailed step-by-step guide of the
necessary steps you need to take in order to
migrate your OpenCart store to a new server. 
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Step 1 Backing up Your OpenCart store contents
As a first, you will need to connect to your host
via FTP. In this example we will use Filezilla,
but if you are looking for an alternative, any
other FTP client will do the job as well. 
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Open public_html folder, Now, we need to locate
our OpenCart installation folder. In this example
we have named it opencarttutorial folder.  Note
In some cases there may not be a public_html
folder or it may be named differently. 
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• Double click on your OpenCart install folder.
• Press Ctrl A to Select all files
• Copy the files.

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Step 2 Backing up your MySQL
Next, we will need a copy of your database. We
will use phpMyAdmin in this tutorial, which is
available in your Cpanel. Once you login at
your Cpanel, you need to go to phpMyAdmin. After
this, please select the database name from the
left hand menu.
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Choose the database and click on Export. 
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Select Custom Export and make sure all of the
tables are selected and proceed to the next title
Output.
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Select zipped as compression type. After we are
done with the above listed steps, we need to go
all the way down and click on Go.
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Step 3 Uploading OpenCart to the new hosting
To Upload OpenCart files to new server you will
need to connect to your new FTP server. Please
fill in your new username and password to
connect. Once we connect, open the public_html
folder and upload the files. Once all files are
uploaded we may proceed to the next step.
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Step 4 Creating MySQL Database 
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To create a MySQL login to the Cpanel . After
login create new database
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To do that click on the MySQL Databases icon
under the Database section. Click on the Create
new and give your database an unique name.
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Now go to phpMyAdmin and select your newly
Created Database and Press Import.
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Next we need to click on Browse and select our
backed up database and upload it.
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Step 5 Editing Config files
Now you need to edit the config.php and
admin/config.php. To do so open find config.php
in the parent OpenCart directory. Open the
config.php for editing. Now, we will need to
edit the following lines of code (9-18) in our
example, located under // DIR
define('DIR_APPLICATION', '/home/system
username/public_html/oc1551/catalog/')define('DI
R_SYSTEM', '/home/system username/public_html/oc15
51/system/')define('DIR_DATABASE',
'/home/system username/public_html/oc1551/system/d
atabase/')define('DIR_LANGUAGE', '/home/system
username/public_html/oc1551/catalog/language/')d
efine('DIR_TEMPLATE', '/home/system
username/public_html/oc1551/catalog/view/theme/')
define('DIR_CONFIG', '/home/system
username/public_html/oc1551/system/config/')defi
ne('DIR_IMAGE', '/home/system usernamepublic_html/
oc1551/image/')define('DIR_CACHE',
'/home/system username/public_html/oc1551/system/c
ache/')define('DIR_DOWNLOAD', '/home/system
username/public_html/oc1551/download/')define('D
IR_LOGS', '/home/stoychev/system
username/oc1551/system/logs/') Notice Please
put your website Cpanel username under system
username
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Next, we need to edit the Database entries
lines (21-26)  define('DB_DRIVER',
'mysql')define('DB_HOSTNAME',
'localhost')define('DB_USERNAME',
inception_tutorial')define('DB_PASSWORD',
123456789)define('DB_DATABASE',
opencarttutorial')define('DB_PREFIX',
'oc_') Please fill in your USERNAME, PASSWORD an
d DATABASE under the DB_USERNAME, 'DB_PASSWORD'
and DB_DATABASE After we are done editing the
config file we need to right click on config.php
and select Set Permissions. We recommend setting
the permissions of config.php to 444. This will
make the file as read-only.  Next stop, we need
to repeat the same procedure with admin/config.php
 file. We will find the file underadmin/config.php
. Again we will edit the database settings and
change the permissions of the admin/config.phpfile
to 444.
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Step 6 Update of Name Servers
As a last step we should update your name
servers. Name servers configure the domain to
point to the right host. Most hosting providers
have their own name servers. The easiest way to
go about this is to contact your hosting
registrars and simply ask them to handle this for
you. Please mind that this can take up to 48
hours to change. So how did your
OpenCart migration go? Please let us know if
there is anything we can help you with or if you
have any questions or comments.
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