Is it easy or possible to completely migrate a website from IIS to shared Linux hosting?
I am working on a number of websites and have found it EXTREMELY convenient to use Microsoft’s Web Deployment Installer to quick-start some of these sites. Most of them are Drupal and WordPress, and thus do not have any programming that is uniquely "Windows." The problem is, I have no idea how to access the databases for these sites nor even how to back them up.
I would like to know if I can go ahead and finish building these sites, with data, settings, and all intact, and then back them up and migrate them to a shared linux hosting account that will likely have cPanel.
Any help here will make my world a lot easier.
Wanted to add details that ALL of my sites are installed using MySQL – or so I am led to believe. IIS is completely new to me as I’ve previously been learning using remote hosting; using the Web Deployment Tool is a new thing out of convenience.
If you don’t use anything that is Windows then it SHOULD be just a simple matter of using FTP to transfer the sites.
I did the opposite, going from Unix to IIS and that was all I had to do. FTP down from current website to my desktop, then FTP up to the new site.
Worked great.
If you don’t use anything that is Windows then it SHOULD be just a simple matter of using FTP to transfer the sites.
I did the opposite, going from Unix to IIS and that was all I had to do. FTP down from current website to my desktop, then FTP up to the new site.
Worked great.
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VB.NET Programmer
Not directly. Unless you are very lucky with the hosting company’s provision. Most Linux based machines only allow the use of mysql, not mssql. Many more only allow php, not asp. If you want to build serious data run sites,you really need to use WAMP as the server, or better run a Linux machine. You are going to need to learn php, html and mysql if you want to be any good at this.
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