Migrate Joomla 3 Site to new domain - mysql

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?

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.

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i would like to know few things about how to host and upload full website include(server ,react, mysql)

Finally i completed my first full project using server, client, data
i would like to know few things about how to host and upload full website include(server ,react, mysql)
i so wondering how that is work, for now i understand that to upload a simple website you need a domain and to hosting, just do npm run build and upload it..., this is something that i know but, when that is not just a simple website like
when i have such as
server side with Node.js + express that have requests (on localhost) *probably need to change the localhost to something else but what
Database running with MySql
React app that have many request to (localhost)
how can i hosting all of them and running my website for everyone, i mean that my sql will still running, CRUD Data will update normal, and the server will still get request and send or update them to mysql data.
and if I'll want to make some change on mysql, server, client
i want to change it like i change it now
Actually i'm not a FullStack developer if i don’t know it... 🥶 so i really interesting to understand all of that issues
i hope you guys havק An understandable answer for me, thanks 🙏 and just take your time :)
Well, where to start hehe. There are a lot of different ways to host a web app. Heroku for example makes this process really simple.
Personally, I use Digital Ocean to host my apps. This is generally how that goes:
I have a project with a folder structure that seperates the server logic and the client logic.
Since you're using Node, you build your client with npm run build. Next make sure the dist/build folder is inside your server folder. That is the folder you are going to 'host'. On Digital Ocean, you make a new droplet (which basically is just a tiny part of a server).
You install Node, Git, Pm2 and (for example) Nginx. You clone your project from Github to the server and install all the dependencies.
You have to do a few configurations with nginx (specifying a domain name for example) to make everything work. This article goes into more detail about that.
Also, a database is frequently hosted seperately. You should read more about that.
If you have everything setup, you can just code on your project as usual. Push new updates to github, and pull in the changes on the server.
Here is another post on Stackoverflow talking about hosting MySql with react.

Detecting unauthorized queries to a WordPress database

I suspect that an ex-employee, who had ftp and backend access to our WordPress site, created and installed an API to allow smartphone access to our database. How can I detect queries being made to the database and see what is requesting them?
Thanks
If you want to log all MySQL (just a guess) queries you can go with the solution in this post: Log all queries in mysql
But it should be mentioned that this is not wise for a production site.
Besides, if you really expect that he could have altered the installation with malicious code you should either reinstall a fresh wordpress and transfer all data or at least validate the code files against a fresh wordpress installation to check for altered code.
Basically this is the same as for a potentially penetrated system, restart at a backup point that you trust or with a fresh copy.

Duplicating existing cakephp app for development

I need to make a development version of a cakePHP app with its own db so that a developer can work on it without disturbing the current users.
I thought it would be simple, I just copied the entire director /project to /project_dev and then copied the DB "project_db" to "project_db_dev". Then I went into /project_dev/config/database.php and changed the db to "project_db_dev".
When I went to see what I had done, I saw the app was still connecting to the same db, as if I'd changed nothing. I realized that the original folder name was referenced in /app/webroot/.htaccess so do I need to find/replace all instances of that folder name?
What steps should I follow to duplicate an existing cakePHP app?
You need to setup some kind of development lifecycle.
Generally speaking the developer shouldn't be doing any development on the server. The best way to handle it is locally using a stack of some kind such as Lamp (Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP) switch out linux with other OS's. There are multiple cloud solution to these environments to such as Koding.com
Using something like Git for version control the developer can develop locally then push the code through to the server after is being thoroughly tested locally or on a dev server or some kind.
Keeping Dev work and Live work away from each other is key.
Could do with a bit more information.
If both databases are hosted on the same server and you have permission to access them both with the same user then all you have to do is change the name of the database in your database.php
If not you will also have to update the IP and any other additional settings port etc.
If you are still having troubles email me simpsond1988#gmail.com

Failing to Move / Migrate a Liferay Portal to other Server

Is there an up-to-date, complete guide on moving a Liferay Portal ?
How am I supposed to migrate a Portal to another Server in an efficient and safe way ?
I've been developing a Portal, connecting to a mySQL database. Then, I had to move both the portal and database to another Server.
So I did the following steps, pretty identical to this guide
export the mySQL Db and import it in the new Server. The data are moved correctly, as I've checked them manually
Copy a new (clean) copy of the Liferay Portal to the new server
copy the data folder
copy portal-ext.properties, then edit the db url and login credentials
Copy the portal-setup-wizard.properties, then change the 'liferay.home' param to the correct portal path
I run the server and my admin has the default 'test' password instead of the one I used before the migration
then I see that Can't have access to the previous content, like Users, UserGroups, Pages, etc. I Also tried re-indexing the database entries (Users and Organizations, Web Content etc). Again nothing
I also Tried copying the whole Portal, and only changing the .properties files to target the new database and portal path. Again the same problems, no Content from the old portal. It's like I started a fresh portal
So what did I do wrong this time ?
Used Liferay 6.1.0 ce ga1
I failed migrating the portal and had to create it from scratch. Almost 1 year later, i found out what caused the problem. Here it is. To be fair, it's a MySQL issue, not Liferay
The MySql database, since it got ported from a windows server to a Linux one, was exported with table names in Uppercase. When Liferay tries to connect to the database, it will not find the Liferay Model's tables, and will create new ones. Practically Liferay treats the Database as an empty one, and it starts as a fresh portal. I only found that, while exploring the database sometime later, and found out I had each Liferay Table both in uppercase and lowercase.
More info and solutions can be found here

Uploading MVC Website and MySQL to Webhost

I created a website using Code Ignitor and MySQL and want to upload everything to 000webhost.com
How do I:
upload my models, views and controllers to the public_html folder of 000webhost?
get my MySQL database up and running on 000webhost?
Thanks in advance
I am presuming that your control panel is cPanel. If thats the case then upload all your files in the web root of the server. Create a database, and change that details in database.php inside config folder. thats it, your site will be up and running.
Your .htaccess (at least mod_rewrite for codeigniter) will not work if you use the free 000webhost service (at least the last time i wanted it, the support told me that they doesn't support it... that was thy time i signed up for their free service for private test of scripts i wrote). Another thing is that for the free hosting they use their own control panel (not cPanel), cPanel is for the paid accounts.
Anyway they both offer ftp accounts, mysql databases and of course web ftp (online file manager). All you need is a ftp client (such as FileZilla or even Windows Explorer itself).