By akindeled on

Hello and thank you in advance for answering my question.

I had a Drupal site hosted in another Godaddy account that was just closed. I saved the Drupal site file and now would like to migrate it to a new Godaddy Account. I've been told to use drush commands, but I have no idea what to do. Please help.

Thanks,
Michael

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f4o’s picture

f4o commented

First, make sure you have:

  1. All Drupal site files
  2. MySQL database in some .sql file - created from phpMyAdmin by export option

If you have all that:

  1. Connect with FTP to your new account and upload all your Drupal site files
  2. Create new database inside cPanel
  3. Connect to phpMyAdmin and import your .sql file
  4. Modify connection string to your database in /sites/default/settings.php file

It should work.

VM’s picture

VM commented

Did you make a copy of the database on the old account? If no, then you've an issue because you no longer have any of your data or configuration. If you do have a database backup then you must import it into a new database generated on the new account.

then you must upload all files and folders.
then you must edit settings.php to point to the new database with the new username and password for the database.