Migrate Joomla 3 Site to new domain

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I have built a Joomla site for a client on a development server. It soon needs migrating to the client's Live site, which will mean a URL change as well as a physical server change.

I'm new to Joomla, but having worked a lot on WordPress previously I know it's a piece of cake to migrate one WP site to another, especially with the dozen or so available plugins.

However, this doesn't appear to be so easy on Joomla. I have searched for the best practice to achieve this with Joomla 3 but cannot find what I need.

Does anyone have a suggestion for this?

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There are in fact a two ways to achieve this and they are quite easy.

1. The first one is the manual way, that is:

  • Copy the files of your local joomla installation and upload them to your server
  • Export your local database and import it on your server.
  • Edit the configuration.php file to your new server credentials -db name, db user, db server etc.

2. The second one is through the akeeba backup component.

  • In this case you create a backup and then restore it on the remote server. Detailed info here.

After uploading your remote site you are advised to follow these guidelines to secure your installation.