Lost on how to upload previous site

[rwinnovation]

A guy had his presta shop (non live- non cloud based) set up at his shop and he was tinkering on it adding items) He got a usb drive with the site saved on it. 

 

He is transferring from one hosting provider to another. 

 

How can I upload his saved site to a new site/account?

[El Patron]

first copy the usb to your hardrive

 

fast: zip the files to your hardrive,  then if hosting control supports it, upload the zip  file to domain, and the unzip it

 

slow: use ftp program like filezila, copy the usb files to folder onto your hard drive, then using ftp program upload to domain.

 

you will of course need to create a db for the shop from you hosting control panel.  this information will then need to be placed in config/settings.inc.php

 

happy day, el

[vekia]

also, filesystem it is not all, what about database dump? do you've got it?

[rwinnovation]

Forgive me but I am not a computer wiz. I kinda play it by ear. 

 

Did the upload and unzipped but it said I needed to download the presta shop.. 

 

Do I need to install presta shop in the right folder BEFORE I upload the zip files? and if so What folder do I put it in?

 

 

What is database dump? I know how to create a database, and username but not sure about the database dump

 

Thank you for your help

Edited August 14, 2016 by rwinnovation (see edit history)

[vekia]

if you want to copy your prestashop to another host this means that you have:

- export prestashop database from current host

- import prestashop database to target host

- copy filesystem of your prestashop to new host

- configure permissions to directories

- change details about database in config/settings.inc.php (database host, database name, database user, password)

 

you dont have to "install" prestashop again on new host

[rwinnovation]

this guy was useing hostmysite. Finding anything in that place is a PITA. 

 

I managed to use prestashop to backup database. and FTP to copy all files over. 

 

Files are over... website is not coming up. I figure this is because of the database. 

 

I go to previous hosting site and look under database ... no database. 

 

The guy had to open something like Imuss, Imap (orange icon with a white space invader dude)  before he could log on to his site...Does that mean the database is on his computer?