I am new to this hosting stuff. I dono anything about hosting a site.
I am developing a website in xampp-windows. What should i do for hosting the website in a domain. If u know please tell me about this hosting of a site in my case.
Get yourself a simple host provider that gives you roughly the same versions for PHP and MYSQL as your current home install. For starters, choose a shared host with plesk or something simple like that. Make sure you're getting phpmyadmin if you're used to that.
export your database and move it to your host (import)
Go over your code and check for windows-only references. The first things that come to mind are paths (c:\yourpath\www\yoursite\ versus /var/www/yoursite/ for isntance)
Put your code on the site.
test. If you find problems, go to stap 3. If you don't, go to step 6)
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I am working on a WordPress project, the job is to deploy everything from the old server to the new server.
So I downloaded everything from the old server.
I deployed a WordPress project to paid hosting, I deployed manually by pushing all the public_html folder to the server.
First, without a database connection, it was showing me a database connection error but after the database connection, it is showing me a hosting page instead of my WordPress project page.
How can I fix it and is there a configuration that needs to be fixed?
Kindly guide me and help me in this matter.
Also is it a domain configuration issue?
The domain is configuration is on the old server and I didn't set it up for the new server yet.
Thanks.
I faced similar issues yesteday when i tried to move my woocommerce exercise from localhost to my domain(live hosting),broken all links,images,routes etc ...There is no way to fix all that whithout paid plugins, maybe someone can go through whole db and change URL-s,i cant,and after that, the question remains whether I have problems elsewhere in the local WP code,who know where in code i also have embed "localhost" URL.
I cant give you solution but i must share my frustration with this tehnology which doesnt allow normall development process like 1)development -> 2)testing -> 3)deployment .
I have spent some time designing a wordpress/phpbb site, and hosting it on localhost using xampp. I would like to soon host my website on a real domain, but I am not sure what I would have to do and change in order to make it a success. Is it possible to just use the files I have placed in htdocs inside the xampp directory?
Thanks for your help, and sorry if my question is confusing or badly explained.
Yes it is, that's the point of XAMPP - website prototyping. I assume that by real domain you mean a hosting service. If you also use MySQL make sure you copy all data to the new database and check PHP dependencies with the new host.
I'm new to PHP and everything, so I'm trying to learn some things.
I'm currently developing my first PHP site in Dreamweaver using MAMP and Localhost.
I have already bought my domain name, and built a smaller html site just to act as a "holding site" before the PHP one gets put up. I'm wandering if instead of using localhost, that I could use a subdomain of that domain. So instead of going to localhost/mysite I could go to test.mysite.com.
Tell me if I'm wrong, but I shouldn't have to upload any files to GoDaddy because I'm using MAMP as the server. Right?
Keep in mind, this isn't permanent. I'm not planning on hosting my site on my computer using MAMP. I'm just wandering if it's possible and how to do it if it is.
Any suggestions, comments, or answers are greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
- Ryan
MAMP is not the server. MAMP adds server capabilities to your computer, but you can't use MAMP to mimmic any server.
What I recommend you is working on your computer, with MAMP and using localhost as the "test address". After the page is finished in your localhost, and everything work fine, you can upload your page to your server (with FTP). This way you avoid having to upload your files via FTP every time you make a change in your code.
And welcome to the PHP World. Countless mugs of coffee and restless night await you.
You can create some folder on web server(on your paying hosting) and upload all files from your test localhost folder. Everyting would work perfectly if you type: https://yourwebsite.domain/yourfolder. If you want to set it to view like http://yourfolder.yourwebsite.domain you must from Control Panel set up an some subdomain. Subdomain is make something like this: you enter name of subdomain and folder which is mapped to that subdomain. For example, you set up subdoman http://test.web.com and map that to http://web.com/testfolder.
I hoppe that I help you.
Good day!
I've searched for many sites on how I could deploy my PHP projet in the internet but I don't know how to do it because I am confused with some of the technical terms.
You see, I am using xampp for my local web server. Now I want to put it in the internet. I found some free web hosting sites so i've decided to upload all my htdocs files inside it.. But how can I put the xampp (apache server) and my mysql database on it? I'm confused. Please help. A step-by-step procedure of what should i do could be really helpful. Thank you in advance.
Get a hosting account (try www.bluehost.com for instance).They will set you up with a Linux server and MySQL. You don't have to install Apache or MySQL, you will use whatever they've got. All you need to do is upload your PHP files to the right folder, setup your database on their server and you should be good to go.
If you buy a domain-name and space, connect them using the NS settings
If you are using a free, then the settings are already okay.
Export the database from your XAMP.
Login to the remote server. There you'll find PHPMyAdmin. Import the database.
Upload the file.
Make sure file listing is off. That is if a user goes to any directory he can not see the file list!
Done :)
Simplifying a bit, there are two ways you can get your site online.
First, you could purchase or rent a server that is yours and yours alone. This is commonly called "dedicated hosting" and costs somewhere around $100 / month. If you choose this option, you have your own server housed in a datacenter somewhere, and you must install Apache, MySQL, and any other server software you care to use.
I doubt, given what you've described, you have chosen this option.
Second, you could rent "shared hosting" from any one of the dozens of hosting providers out there. If you do this, with a typical cost of $2 to $10 per month, the hosting provider is administering the server. You have no direct access at all. Your only access is through the tools they provide.
Given that, how specifically you can upload files is up to them (is it FTP? SSH? a horrifying web-based upload tool of some kind?) Similarly, how you access your MySQL databases (assuming they offer MySQL databases) is entirely up to them as well.
Many providers now use a tool called cPanel for this administration, so you may try browsing to www.example.com/cPanel (using your domain) on the off chance that works. If not, though, follow the instructions your host provides. Only they can correctly describe how their setup works.
The hosting will be already having apache and mysql installed you only have to put your files thats it
I suggest you contact your webhosting site. The web hosting needs to host php, and mysql. Then you can upload your files to their web server, and copy your mysql database to their mysql server.
You do not need to transfer xampp to your host: apache and mysql are running on nearly every server
Upload all your files in your htdocs directory via ftp to your server
To transfer your database, use phpMyAdmin. It is installed with xampp and alos installed on nearly every server. In phpMyAdmin, use the export/import functionality
In your php file where you connect to the db change the login settings to the settings the hoster gave you
That should work...
Hosting Company already have setup for apache,php, mysql. All you need to uploads all your
files from xampp htdocs to a right folder like public_html using a ftp software like
filezilla. They also provide a control panel like using which you can manage your mysql
database and all others settings like directory permission.
I need to direct multiple domains to a single set of (PHP) files. So I point a domain at my server, which then goes to a single index.php file. This index.php file then detects the domain accessing it and returns the appropriate content. I do not want to add domains or set-up sites manually though as this is for a content management service. So it should be a case of a user signing up and it immediately works without me having to manually do anything. The file set must also exist only once, so updates can easily be applied to everyone.
I am currently on shared hosting, but I believe I may need to move to a VPS (running Apache) to achieve this.
How do I go about doing this?
Thanks
Unless I'm missing something about what you're trying to do, a simple CNAME DNS record may work. Just CNAME the new domain to your existing 'main' domain.
However, if you need to know what domain was requested using shared hosting this very well may not work. The catch is you would also have to setup the hosting account to accept requests from the new domain. This seems to be what you're trying to avoid.
If this is the case, you'll need a static IP, and Apache setup to accept wildcard domains and pass them to your application (index.php in this case). You may not need a VPS for this, just a relatively configurable shared hosting account.
Update: To get this working on shared hosting, check out the Apache VirtualHost directive. That's what Apache uses to setup a (wait for it) 'virtual' web server (document root, logs, etc) allowing a single server to host multiple sites. Also checkout Named Based Virtual Hosting, you'll need an account that doesn't do virtual hosting that way.
"So it should be a case of a user signing up and it immediately works without me having to manually do anything"... So you want magic. Anyways domains point to a directory so that is easy just point all domains to the same directory. PHP can examine the full URL so you can use that to select the content.
If you are using something like Joomla you might be able to customize the starting extension. For example all joomla content is stored in tables named jos_XXX.
It should theoretically be modifyable to the base table is domain_com_XXX
Maybe, but you really need to find a good programmer for this, I don't know of any systems that will do this out of the box. Maybe someone else might know of one.