This is my first post, and want to thank this friendly community of Drupal developers and their efforts to help those in need like myself. I have searched all night for the correct solution to this issue, but cannot get this figured out (and don't think the answer is very complex).
What is the correct way to migrate a current (finished) Drupal 7.2.x site to a different domain I own that is hosted on the same server?
At first I thought the best route was to "not" make a different database because it was on the same server and I was going to basically ditch the old site after migrating. If I understand right, this isn't the best thing to do, especially if I want to keep a secondary "test" environment on the web to show clients an update before putting it into effect. So I have since backed up my database in two different ways:
Way 1: (phpmyadmin). I used the recommended settings found on a Drupal documentation:
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/2523/dbexport.png
Way 2: (Backup and Migrate module).
http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate
Neither of these solutions backup files though, only the database (as you probably know).