My Store is currently hosted by go daddy, but they have been nothing but trouble. So I recently bought a new Dell Rack server. To move the store do I just pull down all the files from go daddy and push them up? Are there any steps I am missing? An Install maybe?
Please refer to the answer below and good luck.
This is from the last section in the user manual:
How can I transfer my CS-Cart installation to a new server?
Follow these directions:
- Make a clean installation of the same(!) version of CS-Cart on a new server;
- Copy the “config.local.php” file of this new CS-Cart to your local computer (or rename it to avoid its overwriting during the next step);
- Make a backup copy of the store database on the “Database” page in the administration area of the web site from which you wish to move CS-Cart installation (the link to the “Database” page is in the “Administration” tab);
- Copy all the CS-Cart files to the new server overwriting the clean installation.
- Copy the “config.local.php” file of the clean installation back to the server.
- Log in to the administration area of CS-Cart installed on the new server (it still has the default login and password admin/admin) and restore the database backup file (you created at step 3) on the “Restore” tab of the “Database” page.
As a result you will have the same copy of CS-Cart on the new server.