phpBB Discussion • Re: Hosting extortion

1) I would transfer the domain to a separate domain name registrar. It's best practice to have the domain registered with someone other than your website host anyway.

2) Once #1 is done, you can migrate the board to a new host. As mentioned above, many hosting services to this migration for you which makes things very easy. Pretty much have them do it if it's free anyway. But doing it manually is not that complicated either as there is the KB article on how to do it.

Set the board up on the the new host first. Find out what the IP is, this available om main page of Cpanel if that is what you have. The following directions are for Windows but you can do the same thing with other OS's. Open C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

At end of file add:127.0.0.1 is for local host if for example you are using XAMPP, you need to change this to IP of new host. Save the file. Browsers can be finicky with this, in FF open settings>> Security and privacy. Find "DNS over HTTPS" and add exception for your domain. Open site in browser and do a hard refresh with ctrl-f5. You'll get warning about the SSL cert, click advanced button and make an exception. You should be viewing the website on new host so you can test things. You can spend as much time as you want making sure everything went smoothly.

To revert just comment it out and save.

Once you know it's working properly you can disable the forum on the old host. Export the DB and import on new host so you latest. you'll also need to transfer any new attachments and avatars that were uploaded since the initial move. Using the hosts trick you can login, enable the forum and do little testing.

Change the nameservers, DNS propagation can take a while but the users should start showing up after short time.

The one issue is the SSL cert. I have always done this from WHM which allows me to force autoSSL to update it but this only works after changing the nameservers. I don't know what the process is for Cpanel only. Check with your host about this.

Statistics: Posted by thecoalman — Sun Dec 01, 2024 8:41 am

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