I have been trying to test out the transfer of an established Drupal run site to another url hosted by godaddy. My plan is to get my test url to mirror the site I have, then to give it some badly needed updates. After I've gotten my test url fully functioning, then I'm going to actually move the established url to godaddy (or another hosting company if I need to), and repeat the process quickly and efficiently.
Problem is that I can't seem to get the test site up and running. These are the steps that I've taken:
1. Copied all files from established site.
2. Used FTP to place all of the copied files into the new test url.
3. Exported the MySQL DataBase (in several pieces) and saved them to my computer.
4. Imported all of the SQL files to my newly setup database.
Here I made sure to only export and import the emptied cache tables
5. Edited the public_html/sites/default/settings.php file by placing the applicable information.
$db_url = 'mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename';
$base_url = 'http://www.example.com';
6 I had read something about disabling clean urls, so I placed this at the bottom of settings.php.
$conf['clean_url'] = 0;
By going to www.example.com/public_html/index.php I can access the index page, but it doesn't show any of the css styles that it should. Also none of the links go anywhere.