How to Move Opencart website from one host to another?

By Expertwebadvisor | Last Updated: February 3, 2015 | In: Opencart

Opencart is one of the Most widely used Ecommerce CMS, It is good fit for the small to medium size of the business requirements. In this post I am trying to describe how to move Opencart website from one host to another host. It is very important to know that open cart has 2 config files (one is on the root where all the files are named as config.php and another one is in the admin folder /admin/config.php), where we have to define the database credentials and the directory path. It is very easy and you can do it just by using the steps given below:

How to Move Opencart website from one host to another?

Step 1: Make sure that you have the credentials of the both hosting (FTP, Database access), Now upload all the files on the new host.
Step 2: Setup of the New Database and Import the old database into the New Database which you have setup on this hosting, Put these credentials safe.
Step 3: Now open the config.php file which is on the root, it is just looking like as below:

<?php
// HTTP
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.ewaexpert.com/');

// HTTPS
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'http://www.ewaexpert.com/');

// DIR
define('DIR_APPLICATION', '/var/www/ewaexpert/catalog/');
define('DIR_SYSTEM', '/var/www/ewaexpert/system/');
define('DIR_LANGUAGE', '/var/www/ewaexpert/catalog/language/');
define('DIR_TEMPLATE', '/var/www/ewaexpert/catalog/view/theme/');
define('DIR_CONFIG', '/var/www/ewaexpert/system/config/');
define('DIR_IMAGE', '/var/www/ewaexpert/image/');
define('DIR_CACHE', '/var/www/ewaexpert/system/cache/');
define('DIR_DOWNLOAD', '/var/www/ewaexpert/system/download/');
define('DIR_UPLOAD', '/var/www/ewaexpert/system/upload/');
define('DIR_MODIFICATION', '/var/www/ewaexpert/system/modification/');
define('DIR_LOGS', '/var/www/ewaexpert/system/logs/');

// DB
define('DB_DRIVER', 'mysqli');
define('DB_HOSTNAME', 'localhost');
define('DB_USERNAME', 'root');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'XXXXXXXX123');
define('DB_DATABASE', 'ewaexpert');
define('DB_PORT', '3306');
define('DB_PREFIX', 'oc_');

Step 4: Put these credentials of the New Server, If you have any problem and you did not know the DIR_APPLICATION path, DIR_SYSTEM path just create a info.php with the code below:

<?php 
	phpinfo();
?>

save and upload the file on root of the Opencart directory and access it from the url like http://www.ewaexpert.com/info.php, it will show whole information of the server and from here you can get all Path.

Step 5: Now Update the Config file with the new details save and upload it.
Step 6: Open the Second config file which is under the /admin/ folder it is just looking like as below:

<?php
// HTTP
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.ewaexpert.com/admin/');
define('HTTP_CATALOG', 'http://www.ewaexpert.com/');

// HTTPS
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'http://www.ewaexpert.com/admin/');
define('HTTPS_CATALOG', 'http://www.ewaexpert.com/');

// DIR
define('DIR_APPLICATION', '/var/www/ewaexpert/admin/');
define('DIR_SYSTEM', '/var/www/ewaexpert/system/');
define('DIR_LANGUAGE', '/var/www/ewaexpert/admin/language/');
define('DIR_TEMPLATE', '/var/www/ewaexpert/admin/view/template/');
define('DIR_CONFIG', '/var/www/ewaexpert/system/config/');
define('DIR_IMAGE', '/var/www/ewaexpert/image/');
define('DIR_CACHE', '/var/www/ewaexpert/system/cache/');
define('DIR_DOWNLOAD', '/var/www/ewaexpert/system/download/');
define('DIR_UPLOAD', '/var/www/ewaexpert/system/upload/');
define('DIR_LOGS', '/var/www/ewaexpert/system/logs/');
define('DIR_MODIFICATION', '/var/www/ewaexpert/system/modification/');
define('DIR_CATALOG', '/var/www/ewaexpert/catalog/');

// DB
define('DB_DRIVER', 'mysqli');
define('DB_HOSTNAME', 'localhost');
define('DB_USERNAME', 'root');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'XXXXXXXX123');
define('DB_DATABASE', 'ewaexpert');
define('DB_PORT', '3306');
define('DB_PREFIX', 'oc_');

Step 7: Just put all the new credentials in this file and upload it on the same place /admin/

Now it is done and check your website by accessing the url. Hope it works and your site is moved on the new host.

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