Migrating and rebuilding entire site

Permalink
I manage a Concrete5 site that's not on a hosting account I'm admin to. After getting limited access to the shared hosting account I've managed to download all the files and the database. I need to reassemble everything in a new account with a new host. The site is currently on 5.6.1.2, so I'd like to set up with the latest version and then migrate the remaining files and stitch everything together. I'm not familiar with this process so what's the best approach?

 
hutman replied on at Permalink Reply
hutman
I would suggest setting it up as-is and just upgrading the CMS, "stitching things together" is a very difficult process, but upgrading Concrete5 on a site is fairly easy. The link below has a good how-to of updating the core. From 5.6.1.2 I would go to 5.6.3 and then the latest version, two steps.

http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/developers/manually-...
Kurtopsy replied on at Permalink Reply
Kurtopsy
Make a new database, upload the data from old database.

Upload files into directory in file manager.

Make new DB user

Enter new DB & DB user info in the .config file

Go towww.www.yourdomain.com/index.php/dashboard... (assuming you had turned off pretty urls first)

Run automated jobs

Should be good as new. Hope that helps.