Moving from one host to another

[user1234]

5% **Yawns**

Does 4% in an hour mean it will take 25 hours?

[kat]

I bloody hope not!

My upload speed's terrible, though. Always has been.

What's taking all the time is all those damned language files. They seem to be everywhere and it seems that you have every language on Earth installed.

[user1234]

I bloody hope not!

My upload speed's terrible, though. Always has been.

What's taking all the time is all those damned language files. They seem to be everywhere and it seems that you have every language on Earth installed.

That is the default installation. I do everything default. Even the forum itself. Nothing fancy.
I just went to "MySQL Databases" in my old account and it says the database is 45.81 MB
Is there a reason for the disparity?

[kat]

Oh, the database is up and ready.

This is all of the actual forum files that I'm putting up, at the moment.

There's just shy of five hundred meg going up.

500 megaBYTES of files, going up at something like 6 megaBITS per second is bound to take a while...

13%, now.

[user1234]

Oh, the database is up and ready.

But until the rest of the files go on, nothing will appear online?

[kat]

Nope.

I'm gonna streamline it, a bit.

There're zillions of files, in the backup, that aren't really forum files.

I'm going to omit those and just get the forum up, for now.

I can always up the other stuff, later.

[user1234]

Nope.

I'm gonna streamline it, a bit.

There're zillions of files, in the backup, that aren't really forum files.

I'm going to omit those and just get the forum up, for now.

I can always up the other stuff, later.

If you did an entire backup of my whole account, it also includes my website pages.

[kat]

Yeah, there's a ton of other stuff, here.

Loads of html files and stuff.

As I said, I'll leave those, for now.

I just created an "smf" directory and I'm sticking everything SMF in there.

You can let me know what you want doing with the other stuff, when I'm done.

[Adish - (F.L.A.M.E.R)]

ehm, if I may interrupt. You can actually compress them and upload them.

.zip's and .tar.gz's are normally extractable by hosts. So just confirm about it with the host and you can upload the compressed file instead of files one after another. (I think you are doing it this way already, but just if you aren't, try doing that)

[kat]

I've got it finished, now, ta!

Just got to figure-out paths and stuff, now.

[kat]

Has your URL been switched over to the new host, yet?

I'm trying to run http://smf/repair_settings.php and I'm getting a 500 error.

[user1234]

Has your URL been switched over to the new host, yet?

I'm trying to run http:      .com/smf/repair_settings.php and I'm getting a 500 error.

Cut the URL back to the m in .com but please erase the link from your post

[kat]

OK, done.

Has the URL been switched?

[user1234]

OK, done.

Has the URL been switched?

Now, when you erased the URL from right to left, back to the m in the .com and pushed enter, didn't you see the website?

[kat]

OOPS! I thought you just meant here.

What do I need, then?

[kat]

Ah... The rest of your site's not got the www at the front.

Odd. I point my browser to the URL, with /smf/repair_settings.php and I'm getting:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Weird.

[user1234]

Ah... The rest of your site's not got the www at the front.

The URL reads like this on my Firefox browser  http://www.b
And on Internet Explorer http://www.b
But on my Google Chrome browser   http://b

I just tried them and it works both ways, on all 3 search engines.
If you type it in without the http://  all 3 engines give it without the w's

[kat]

Most browsers, if you go to http://simplemachines.org/community/index.php, will try http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php automatically.

I'm not sure if the reverse is true, though.

Maybe your host can change it to www if you ask them?

I still can't get this finished, though, coz of the internal server error.

If your site at http://yourwebsite.com is working, http://yourwebsite/smf/repair_settings.php should be working and it's not.

If I put files in the root of httpdocs, they work.

Odd, huh?

[user1234]

Most browsers, if you go to http://simplemachines.org/community/index.php, will try http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php automatically.

I'm not sure if the reverse is true, though.

Maybe your host can change it to www if you ask them?

I still can't get this finished, though, coz of the internal server error.

If your site at http://yourwebsite.com is working, http://yourwebsite/smf/repair_settings.php should be working and it's not.

If I put files in the root of httpdocs, they work.

Odd, huh?

My website URLs always had the www. in front but my forum link URLs were always absent the www.

[kat]

Well, I've done everything I can, now.

If I delete everything in the smf directory and put it in the root, where all the other stuff is, it'll work.

But it's not, in that directory. Heaven knows why.

One for your host?