My dad runs a Joomla! based website that I have been hosting. Just recently we decided to migrate it to a different web host, so I had to figure out how to move it.

I was initially puzzled by how to accomplish this move with the least amount of pain. I’ve enjoyed the slick Export/Import process that Wordpress provides, and (to my knowledge) there is nothing like that for Joomla!. I decided the only way I was going to complete this was to export the MySQL database, and download all 2000+ Joomla! files from the old server, then upload the files and import the database to the new server. A little time consuming, but it guarantees that everything will be migrated.

Before I set out on this “journey” I decided to see if there were any guides online that had different methods. What I found was detailed steps of exactly what I was planning to do. Here is another guide (less detailed though) that I just had to link to, because it’s a Joomla! guide on a site running Drupal. Go figure.