Moving my web site

Hi,

I want to move a fairly large web site from one UNIX/Apache server to another (ie. from one hosting service to another).

So, in a nutshell, I'm looking for the quickest, easiest solution for getting it from A to B.

The site uses PHP & MySQL. I'm comfortable dumping the MySQL database and reloading it on the new server, but what I'm not 100% confident about is the correct command line syntax to dump all the files, directories, and sub-directories - complete with chmod/chown permissions if possible - and then the correct command line syntax to restore it on the new server.

I think tar and gunzip are the way to go, but can someone give me some solid guidance with some exact command line syntax?

Thanks very much.

Using telnet, if the web directory is in your home directory use
tar -czvf web.tar.gz web

This will create a file called web.tar.gz that contains the content of web

ftp this to the new host then use
tar -pxzf web.tar.gz

This will uncompress it

You will probably need to
chown newuser.group web -R

But check with your new host as they should help

Regards
Darren

Sounds just the ticket. Thanks mate.

Another alternative:

Try rsync -> http://rsync.samba.org/