Hi Colleen,

when you move a site and change the way it is nested under folders, if you have pretty URLs enabled the .htaccess file normally needs to be edited as well.

In your .htaccess file you're likely to have a line:
RewriteBase /c5

If you have the site at the web root level (i.e. just in pubic_html), it just needs to be:
RewriteBase /

Thanks for the tip, but I didn't set it up for pretty url's at this point because the last time I did that, I screwed up my site and had to start over. So the .htaccess was empty.
I copied all the database files to the one associated with the new one I put directly in the public_html but I don't actually know how to read them so not sure if the database has the correct files.
How do I find my actual pages?
Colleen

When you say 'copied all the database files', do you mean exported from the old site's database, them imported to the new site's database?

no, I just copied them over, do I need to export then import?

TBH, I don't know. The documentation at
http://documentation.concrete5.org/developers/installation/moving-a...
seems to prefer exporting and importing, so I'd try that. I've always followed that documentation closely and it's always worked for me.

I'd agree that following a set of instructions is going to be your best bet. I think there might be a few floating around the concrete5 site and forums.

I get the feeling you might be confusing what is the database, versus what are the files to run concrete5. You generally can't see/access the files for your database, so if you've moved files you are really only talking about the files that run concrete5, your theme, packages, etc.

The actual database is going to be stored within a MySQL database. As per the instructions you need to take a copy of the database, often referred to as a database dump. You then load that into a blank database at the new server. The final step is adjusting your concrete5 install to point at the new database, with the correct login connection credentials. The instructions linked talk about using the command line to do the database backup, but more often than not you have something like PHPMyAdmin available via a control panel such as cPanel.

If databases are very foreign to you, this might be a case of simply engaging a web developer to make the move for you - moving sites is something developers do all the time. You can always post a job in the jobs part of the forum.