Installing Drupal

Good day,

I have a drupal 6 installation running on ubuntu. I would like to be able to clone my dev setup and make the copy my production website ( on same server)

Here is what I did to test but it does not seem to be working:

Created a database and imported a backup :
mysql> create database test;
mysql test < dump.sql
Website runs on /var/www/
I have created /var/sandbox and changed the setting related to the database in settings.php:
$db_url = 'mysqli://USER:PASSWORD@localhost/test';

I need stepwise procedure for installing drupal in ubuntu server from my remote windows machine using putty software?
please give me reply ASAP....

Hi
I am trying to transfer my test website from my local host uWamp Server to my web hosted domain - I transferred all the files and folders via FTP successfully. I made a dump of the database locally to my machine and then tried to import it to my web host's server; freehostia.com following the instructions from their website. I keep getting the following error message:

SQL query:

--
-- Database: `drupal7.0`
--
-- --------------------------------------------------------
--
-- Table structure for table `actions`
--
CREATETABLEIFNOTEXISTS`actions` (

`aid` varchar( 255)NOTNULL DEFAULT'0' COMMENT'Primary Key: Unique actions ID.',
`type` varchar( 32)NOTNULL DEFAULT'' COMMENT'The object that that action acts on (node, user, comment, system or custom types.)',
`callback` varchar( 255)NOTNULL DEFAULT'' COMMENT'The callback function that executes when the action runs.',
`parameters` longblob NOTNULLCOMMENT'Parameters to be passed to the callback function.',
`label` varchar( 255)NOTNULL DEFAULT'0' COMMENT'Label of the action.',
PRIMARYKEY (`aid`)
) ENGINE= InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET= utf8 COMMENT='Stores action information.'

MySQL said:
#1046 - No database selected

However I don't know any SQL or PHP code really and I wondered if I could get a bit of help just to get this initial problem corrected so that I can see my site on the web.

I'm practicing on a online host right now, I'm using 7, and I want to know if I can hide it from the public.

Does anyone know or have a good documentation on how to create your first site.