Contents
- 1. Backup files in your Magento directory on your old server:
- 2. Create a database dump on your old server:
- 3. Set up the directory structure for files and create database + user on your new server
- 4. Move files and database dump to your new server: via FTP, SSH,...
- 5. Extract file-backup to your new Magento directory
- 6. Check and set file-permissions
- 7. Import database-dump on your new server:
- 8. Update new database settings in app/etc/env.php
- 9. Update URLs in core_config_data:
- 10. Empty var/cache, var/session, var/report, var/log (if you did not do that before you created the backup on the old server)
- 11. Reindex your data: catalog url rewrites
Here is some main step to move Magento 2 to a new server? There might be additional things: changing domains, DNS, PHP-Configuration, tools & programs on your server.
1. Backup files in your Magento directory on your old server:
You might empty your var/cache, var/session, var/report, and var/log directory before to save space and speed up the backup.
2. Create a database dump on your old server:
Use phpMyAdmin, Chive, or via console with mysqldump
3. Set up the directory structure for files and create database + user on your new server
Create new folder and point your domain to this folder and create new database.
4. Move files and database dump to your new server: via FTP, SSH,...
5. Extract file-backup to your new Magento directory
6. Check and set file-permissions
Usually 644 for files and 755 for folders.
https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.4/install-gde/prereq/file-system-perms.html
7. Import database-dump on your new server:
Use phpMyAdmin, Chive or via console with MySQL
8. Update new database settings in app/etc/env.php
You can change new information of new database in ‘db’ part.
9. Update URLs in core_config_data:
You can edit the base_url via Web-Frontend (phpMyAdmin, Chive,…) or use these SQL-statements. You need to edit the URLs for your stores also.
Look for path =”web/unsecure/base_url” and path=”web/secure/base_url” in the core_config_data table.
10. Empty var/cache, var/session, var/report, var/log (if you did not do that before you created the backup on the old server)
11. Reindex your data: catalog url rewrites
You can reindex your data by command line:
php bin/magento indexer:reindex
then you can check your website again to make sure all work fine.