Showing posts with label Web Development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Web Development. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Best Free Weblog Software Other Than WordPress

Weblog software is designed to simplify the creation and maintenance of weblogs. As specialized content management systems, weblog applications support the authoring, editing, and publishing of blog posts and comments, with special functions for image management, web syndication, and moderation of posts and comments.




We all know WordPress is one the most popular weblog applications. What other options can we choose? We have collected the following Top Quality Weblog Software Other Than WordPress for you.

melody


Melody is an open source content management, blogging and publishing platform, derived from the popular blogging tool Movable Type. At its onset, Melody is distinct from Movable Type by having put in place a set of processes that assist the greater Movable Type and Melody communities to contribute features, changes and fixes more freely and quickly back to the core product. This allows independent developers to pursue the features and preferences that matter to them most.


The promise of Melody is to serve its community by working to build a product according to the principles and philosophies that have helped make WordPress, Apache, Linux, Firefox and other open source applications so successful. Those principles include creating and fostering open communication channels with its user base, by building transparency into its roadmap, and by permitting users to more freely contribute back to the core product.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://openmelody.org/




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When it comes to publishing on the internet, beginners and experts alike are met with a bothersome paradox: word processors and graphics applications allow anyone to do a pretty good job of managing text and images on a personal computer, but to make these available to the worldwide web – a seemingly similar environment of documents and destinations – ease of use vanishes behind sudden requirements for multilingual programming skills, proficiency in computer-based graphic design, and, ultimately, the patience of a saint.


Textpattern is a flexible, elegant and easy-to-use content management system and it is both free and open source. Textpattern is a web application designed to help overcome these and other hurdles to publishing online, and to simplify the production of well-structured, standards-compliant web pages.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://www.textpattern.com/




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Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Drupal is open-source software distributed under the GPL (�General Public License�) and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://drupal.org/




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Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams with the following main features. Built from the ground up to be as simple as possible, Radiant features an elegant administrative interface that centers around three key components: pages, snippets, and layouts.


Radiant is licensed under the MIT License. This means that Radiant is free for commercial and non-profit use. It also means that you are free to modify and distribute Radiant as long as you don’t remove the appropriate notices from the source code.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://radiantcms.org/




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Frog CMS is a PHP version of Radiant CMS, a well known Ruby on Rails application. Frog CMS share the goal to simplify content management, and offer an elegant user interface, flexible templating per page, simple user management and permissions and all what you need for your files management.


Frog requires a MySQL database with InnoDB support, a web server (Apache with mod_rewrite is highly recommended) and is distributed under the MIT software license.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://www.madebyfrog.com/




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XOOPS is an acronym of eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System. Though started as a portal system, XOOPS is in fact striving steadily on the track of Content Management System. It can serve as a web framework for use by small, medium and large sites.


A lite XOOPS can be used as a personal weblog or journal. For this purpose, you can do a standard install, and use its News module only. For a medium site, you can use modules like News, Forum, Download, Web Links etc to form a community to interact with your members and visitors. For a large site as an enterprise one, you can develop your own modules such as eShop, and use XOOP’s uniform user management system to seamlessly integrate your modules with the whole system.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://www.xoops.org




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The Movable Type Open Source Project was announced in conjunction with the launch of the Movable Type 4 Beta on June 5th, 2007. The MTOS Project is a community and Six Apart driven project that will produce an open source version of the Movable Type Publishing Platform that will form the core of all other Movable Type products.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://www.movabletype.org




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MODx is 100% buzzword compliant, and makes child’s play of building content managed sites with validating, accessible CSS layouts – hence Ajax CMS. It empowers its users to build engaging “Web 2.0? sites today, with its pre-integrated MooTools, Scriptaculous and Prototype libraries. If you’re a CSS designer or Ajax aficionado, this is the CMS for you; and if you like what you see today, you’ll love what’s coming.


Techies call MODx a Content Management Framework (”CMF“): equal parts custom web app builder and Content Management System (”CMS“). With a flexible API and a robust event override system, MODx makes building engaging web projects straightforward — or changing core functionality without hacking the core code possible. Custom tweaks won’t leave you pulling out your hair when it’s time to upgrade.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://www.modxcms.com/




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sNews is a completely free, standards compliant, PHP and MySQL driven content management system. Consisting of only one small core file, sNews is extremely lightweight, easy to install, and easy to use via a simple web interface.


With sNews you can create a website that consists of dynamic pages and have a blog at the same time. sNews has a front page option and categories for you to categorize your articles. Corporate CMS or a personal blog - your choice.


sNews uses search engine friendly URLs throughout, to make your website truly loved by Google and other search engines (as well as your visitors). This makes a sNews driven site highly Search Engine Optimized from the get-go and will greatly assist in your site obtaining a good SEO ranking.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://snewscms.com/




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OpenCms from Alkacon Software is a professional, easy to use website content management system. OpenCms helps content managers worldwide to create and maintain beautiful websites fast and efficiently.


The fully browser based user interface features configurable editors for structured content with well defined fields. Alternatively, content can be created using an integrated WYSIWYG editor similar to well known office applications. A sophisticated template engine enforces a site-wide corporate layout and W3C standard compliance for all content.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://www.opencms.org/




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ocPortal is a CMS (Content Management System) that allows you to create and manage your interactive and dynamic website from an easy to use administration interface. ocPortal is unique by the combination of a vast and diverse range of provided functionality, out-of-the-box usability, and an ability for unlimited customisation.


ocPortal is completely free under an OSI-approved Open Source licence since version 4.0. There are no restrictions on usage, and they don’t keep away any features from users.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://ocportal.com/




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Habari is being written with a firm understanding of the current state of blogging. Most other blogging packages have been around long enough that their responses to things like comment spam and Digg site overloads are bolted on after the fact; whereas Habari is being written from the beginning to take these things — and more — into account.


Habari strongly favors open, standard, and documented protocols. Atom, being both open and documented, is the prefered syndication format, and the Atom Publishing Protocol is the prefered means of remote communication with your site. This is a core feature, and not a plugin.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://habariproject.org




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dotCMS Core is the most feature complete open source web CMS available today. Available under the GPL, you can freely download the dotCMS system and get up, running and managing web sites and web content in a matter of minutes.


Unlike many other “open sourceâ€� cms, dotCMS is in no way crippled. When you download the dotCMS system, you are getting all of the functions and features needed to begin creating customized, manageable and scalable web sites. This includes so called “advanced”� features such as LDAP/AD integration, clustering support, online templating, Web2.0 Calendaring and the structured content engine.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://www.dotcms.org/




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Symphony is a web publishing system made for web developers. It gives you all the power and flexibility you’ll need, while keeping out of your way.


Symphony lets you organise everything the way you like, from your publishing environment to your website’s URL structure. Built to be versatile and customisable, Symphony really is what you make of it.


Symphony’s templating engine is pure XSLT goodness. XSLT is a standard recommended by the W3C, so learning Symphony means that you’re learning skills that you can also use outside of the system. If you already know the XML and CSS standards, then chances are you should be able to quickly pick up XSLT.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://symphony-cms.com/


Source: http://www.blogperfume.com/best-free-weblog-software-other-than-wordpress/

Monday, September 22, 2008

Joomla

Joomla is a Content Management System (CMS) which help building websites and other powerful online applications. Joomla can change from simple or personal homepages to complex corporate web applications for example, corporate websites or portals, online commerce, or small business websites. Joomla can be used to easily manage every aspect of your website, from adding content and images to updating a product catalog or taking online reservations.

Furthermore, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody. Joomla’s package is designed to be easy to install, even for non-programmers. Most people have no trouble with installing and running Joomla application, and there is plenty of support available information for rookies. Joomla community has a growing, active community of more than 150,000 friendly users and developers on our forums eager to help.

Once Joomla is installed and running, it is simple for even non-technical users to add or edit content, update images, and to manage the critical data that makes your company or organization go. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage a Joomla site. Via a simple, browser-based interface user will be able to easily add new press releases or news items, manage staff pages, job listings, product images, and create an unlimited amount of sections or content pages on the web site.

Source :
http://www.joomla.org

Joomla news :
1. Joomla Forms - Live Public Hands On Demo Available Now
http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2008/06/30/joomla-forms-live-public-hands-on-demo-available-now/
2. Joomlashack Releases its latest native Joomla 1.5 Template
http://www.compassdesigns.net/joomla-blog/Joomlashack-Releases-its-latest-native-Joomla-1.5- Template.html
3. JContact Released Powerful Email Newsletters for Joomla 1.5
http://www.compassdesigns.net/joomla-blog/JContact-Released---Powerful-Email-Newsletters-for-Joomla- 1.5.html

Saturday, September 20, 2008

RSS and Atom

RSS is a type of XML (Extensible Markup Language) format. It used for updating the content and show it on that web pages which show only the title. When users click on the link, it will show the description of the content from the original which title of news can updated according to the original. When you want to take the content tot show it will show 3 parts are content provider, web designer and users. The Strong point of RSS is all users don’t need to all web sites to check for updating. All of web sites have different in how often to update. RSS will help users to update those contents without entering those web sites. In the present RSS is well-known in international web sites such as google, Yahoo!, CNet and organization web sites which need to have distribution content, they will provide RSS services. You can see the sign on those web sites.

Atom is similar with RSS. It was created by developers who didn’t appreciate with RSS. Atom format is stable in February 2004 in version 0.3. Difference point between RSS an Atom is Atom is more complex than RSS. It can take more complex information, and it is consistent across the syndication, storage and editing of information.

RSS and Atom is tools that can help all party who surf internet that need to update information or content constantly. Web developers can update those contents without updated their web site frequently which they need to update it every times they need to update new content. RSS and Atom can reduce the copying content in web site focusing on violating copyright. RSS and Atom will link that content automatically to their web sites.

Resource: http://www.whatisrss.com/

News:

E-mail with your peanuts? Airline tests in-flight Web access
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/biztech/06/25/airborneinternet.ap/index.html

Learning Joomla Has Never Been Easier!
http://www.joomla.org/content/view/5136/33/

Professional CSS Gives Developers a Peek into the Process of the Best CSS Designers in the World
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080626005337&newsLang=en

Web design

Web design is a process of conceptualization, planning, modeling, and execution of electronic media content delivery via Internet in the form of technologies which suitable for interpretation and display by a web browser or other web-based. The goal of web design is to create a web site that presents content to the end user in the form of web pages. Such elements as text, forms, and bit-mapped images those can be placed on the page by using HTML, XHTML, or XML tags. Plug-ins is also embedded into web pages by using HTML or XHTML tags because some kind of complex media displaying is needed. (E.g. Flash, QuickTime, Java run-time environment, etc.)
Typically web pages are classified as static or dynamic.

1. Static pages don’t change content and layout with every request unless a manually updates the page.
2. Dynamic pages adapt their content and/or appearance depending on the end-user’s input or interaction or changes in the computing environment The content can be changed on the client side (end-user's computer) by using client-side scripting languages (JavaScript, JScript, Action script, media players and PDF reader plug-ins, etc.) to alter DOM elements (DHTML). Dynamic content is often compiled on the server utilizing server-side scripting languages (PHP, ASP, Perl, Cold fusion, JSP, Python, etc.). Both approaches are usually used in complex applications.
With growing specialization within communication design and information technology fields, there is a strong tendency to draw a clear line between web design specifically for web pages and web development for the overall logistics of all web-based services.

Original Source

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_design

Related News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7266201.stm
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1668035,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics
http://drawlogic.com/2007/06/01/loading-external-css-stylesheets-in-flash9-as3-cs3/

Meta tags are not a Magic Solution!

When we want our website to get a top ranking in Search Engines, we need to add the "meta tags" to web pages although Meta tags is not a guaranteed way to gain a top ranking on crawler-based search engines.

Meta tags is not Title tag. Meta tags are information inserted into the "head" area of your web pages and is not seen by those viewing your pages in browsers. Meta tags are used to communicate information with the bot of search engines. Two common types of meta tags is Meta Keyword & Meta Description . It place between the "opening" and "closing" HTML HEAG tags.

For Search Engine, the title tag & meta tag are crucial because they use this tag as one of the most important factors of search engine's algorithm. In addition, all major crawlers will use the text of title tag as the title for listing of the website. As the above sentence, meta tags is not a guaranteed way to gain a top raking because it is not every search engine crawl the meta tags. Google is the one of the three Major search engine in the world and Google ignores the meta keyword & meta description tag and instead will automatically generate its own description for web page.

You may have the question about "Still want to use the meta tag?". I can answer that we still need to use the meta tag because another search engine like Yahoo, MSN, and etc are still crawl the meta tag. It is the strategy to get more traffic with diffuse the link to gain better ranking in search engine include Google.

Resource : http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2167931

News:
Google will remove all search queries after 18 to 24 months
http://www.ifergan.org/world-seo-news/google-will-remove-all-search-queries-after-18-to-24- months.html

Next Generation SEO Tactics
http://www.ifergan.org/world-seo-news/next-generation-seo-tactics.html

Joomla & Mambo Adsense module
http://www.ifergan.org/joomla-mambo-adsense-module-2.html

AJAX Technology

Summary

A programming technique called AJAX, is an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. This is not a new technology; rather, it is a combination of older technologies that most browsers now support. This technology it’s really fast because webpage will request only small information from the server instead of whole page.
For example, when a customer goes to our apparel design tool, they are taken into what feels like an actual application for designing a shirt. They are prompted to add an image and text and can easily manipulate the text and images to create exactly the product they want.


sources:

AJAX Introduction
http://www.w3schools.com/Ajax/ajax_intro.asp
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News Ref.

Google improves its AJAX toolkit
http://news.cnet.com/Google-improves-its-AJAX-toolkit/2110-1032_3-6136063.html?tag=topicIndex

AJAX News: stay one step ahead with the very best and latest in AJAX from around the world
http://www.c-point.com/ajax_news.php

CICS and AJAX
http://mainframeweekly.blogspot.com/2006/10/cics-and-ajax.html

Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

What is CSS?
What are cascading style sheets? Let’s suppose for a minute that you wanted all your paragraphs in a multi-page document to be center-aligned. If you omit the attribute and value for the

tag, what do you think the browser will do? It will simply use its default setting, which is left-aligned. So, every time you create a new paragraph, you have to remember to type in the attribute and the value. If you forget, your document won’t look like you want it to be.
Now that would be no big deal if you only had to deal with one or two pages and one or two tags, but what if you are dealing with a website that has 50 pages and hundreds of different tags.
CSS was introduced in late 1996, as an elegant cousin to HTML that promised several things, including:

• more precise control than ever before over layout, fonts, colors, backgrounds, and other typographical effects;
• a way to update the appearance and formatting of an unlimited number of pages by changing just one document;
• compatibility across browsers and platforms; and
• less code, smaller pages, and faster downloads.
CSS represents the Word Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C’s) effort to improve on the tag and attribute based style of formatting. The idea is that style sheets provide a way of customizing a whole page and even whole sites at one time and in much richer detail than the simple use of tags and attributes.
Plus, CSS is sort of like the cornerstone of Dynamic HTML, which is another subject that you should investigate. We aren’t going to get into that subject too much other than to show you how to add DHTML effects to your web using Front Page and possibly importing some already created DHTML applets into your web.
So CSS is a technology that gives you, as a webmaster, much more control over all these things that you would ever have in HTML alone. So let’s dig in to the basics.


Conclusion
It is worth the effort to learn and implement CSS’s because they provide unsurpassed control over the layout of Web pages. They're also the most efficient way to maintain and update a large site, and they make for smaller pages that download faster.
CSS works through individual style sheets rules that consist of selectors and declarations. These rules can be embedded in an HTML document, linked to or from an HTML document, imported to an HTML document, or added inline within an HTML document. Each method of adding CSS to Web pages has its own benefits.

Resource : http://techapps.esc2.net/resources/m_Web_Mastery/Day2/Intro%20to%20CSS.doc

Friday, July 11, 2008

10 Second Internet Person, sound familiar?

Some people do not understand the Internet idea of online commerce, but then again some people do not understand themselves either. To fully understand Internet Commerce you really only need to monitor your "clicking habits" for a few days to see where you are going and what if anything you are buying. The modern Internet Consumer is there and gone, in a click of any eye, if you do not grab us with good stuff, SEE YA, we are out of here and the speed of light. However you can also make money on that fact and Google AdSense is just one way. Before you go hog wild on the Internet concept of making money in a virtual world you need to educate yourself a little; one of the books I recommend is:


"The 10 Second Internet Man@ger, Survive, thrive & drive your company in the information age" By Mark Breier.


Mark is one of the key people behind Amazon.com, an early .com that won. Why because of their team and there relentlessness. Armin A. Brott was a co-author and former Marine, Commodities Trader and MBA. He is also insane, just like the modern day Internet Person. It appears that is what it takes, these guys are as crazy as the Blitz Marketing Team at The Car Wash Guys in the deployment of their market dominating campaigns.


The book dives into instant information, use of inter-office e-mail, dealing with high-strung individuals all kicking butt. It talks of balance, fun on the team and winning. He sights the venture capital game, investment banker crowd and all the people it takes to please the crowd. They go into an in-depth evaluation of customer feedback and sales in the e-commerce world. If every .COM CEO would have read this book fewer would be gone today. The book is about a five hour read but worth it.


It goes into everything from the tricks of the trade, strategies to beat the competition to tactics that are necessary to move mountains. Some of these strategies have changed but the concept behind them remains the same.


I recommend the book to everyone, but feel that some companies are even more dedicated to winning than they were at Amazon.com. I thought that some of the hard work complaints were invalid because that is what it takes and that is life. If you cannot cope get out of the fire, strong survive. I got the feeling that some of these guys at Amazon were yuppy pricks and whimps on the fire line; but their way worked for them, so hats off to their team. We work that hard everyday at my company and you probably do to; they did it using other peoples money, big deal. But no matter what you think they did do it indeed. If it is really that tough on them then do not take the money in the first place. They asked for it and they got it. At least they were willing to pull though on their commitments to the shareholders and drive hard at the market.


All in all this book was good and had some great advice for managing e-mail, electronic communication, when not to have a meeting, when to get a life, when to ask for more, when and how far to push the troops, what to say to the media, investors, VC, and investment bankers. How investment bankers use your information on other projects and why it is important to make deals fast and why loose lips sink ships. I could not agree more with 80% of this book. The other 20% was information only important to a .COM or to Amazon itself. Some of the stories to illustrate points in this book were great and pointed to the real life inside of this fast passed company. Next on the reading list is Amazon.com, the story of the bookseller itself.


I recommend this book to anyone sitting on their butt and wondering what it takes to survive and to win in the age of the Internet. It is fun to win but the stakes are high and only a few can actually do it. So buy it, read it and think on it, thanks, click out to your right on one of the side bar items. SEE YA

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Save $100 in 5 Minutes Backing Up Your Web Site?

Here's an easy way to backup your web site's files and
database (worth thousands of dollars, no doubt) that costs
$0 to learn and perform. It only takes seven easy steps.


You don't need to know a lot about how to use Unix or how to
use databases like mySQL. The only real tool you need is a
telnet client. Also, you need to know a few commands which
I'll show you now. (You could even write the commands I'm
about to give you on a cheatsheet.)


STEP 1: CONNECT & GET IN THE RIGHT FOLDER



The web host you're trying to back up needs to allow shell
access (most do these days).


If you have a Windows computer, download a program called
"PuTTY" which you can use to login in your web host's shell.
Search for "putty ssh" on Google or get it here:
http:/ he.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe


Open up PuTTY and at the top type in your hostname (your web
site address without the http or www, just "yourname.com").
Your web host either uses SSH or telnet, first try logging
in using SSH and if it won't connect try it using Telnet.
Click the "Open" button at the bottom to connect.


When it connects you will be asked for your account's
username, and after you enter that, it will ask for your
password. If these both take, you'll see a command prompt
of sorts. What you have to do is browse to the document
root, depending on your host it's usually a folder like
"public_html" or "wwwroot".


If the wwwroot or public_html folder has more folders inside
of it, in the form of yourdomain.com, don't browse into them
yet, just stay in the folder you're in.


Browsing in the Unix command prompt is just like DOS, to
view a folder type "dir" or "ls", and to go into a certain
folder type "cd foldername". If you messed up you can type
"cd .." to move up one level.



STEP 2: BACK-UP THE DATABASE


The first step if you're backing up a site is to dump your
mySQL database. To do this obviously you need the mySQL
username and password you want to back up. If your mySQL
username is "myuser" and the mySQL password is "mypassword",
you'd type:


mysqldump -umyuser -pmypassword -A > dump.sql


mysqldump is the program we run to dump the database into a
file, then we type "-u" followed by the username (no spaces)
and "-p" followed by the password (also no spaces). The
uppercase "-A" tells the program we want to dump every
database this user has access to. It MUST be an uppercase
A.


The ">" afterwards says we want to put this program's output
into a file (otherwise it would show up on the screen) and
"dump.sql" is the name of the file we're going to dump to.


This may take a while depending on the size of your
database. Be patient. Once you have a command prompt
again, it's done.


If you don't have root on your server, it may show databases you don't have access to. What you'll have to do here is "force" mysqldump to keep doing the backups even if it gets error messages. The flag for "force" is "-f".


mysqldump -umyuser -pmypassword -Af > dump.sql



STEP 3: BACK-UP YOUR FILES


Now you can put everything into one big file, which you can
easily move over to the new host in one go, instead of one
at a time. Unix doesn't let you create Zip files, but you
can create a TAR (Tape Archive) which just rolls a bunch of
files together without any sort of compression.


To create your TAR archive, type:


tar -cvf dump.tar *


The "-c" tells the program to create a new TAR archive, the
"v" following right after says to be verbose, in other
words, give us the name of every file that's being added to
the archive. "f: means we're saving this to a file, as
opposed to showing it on the screen (you'd just see junk).


"dump.tar" is the name of the file we want to save into, and
the "*" means we want to put everything into this TAR
archive -- files, folders, everything.


You may get some sort of warning about not adding dump.tar
to the archive, that's no big deal because we don't want
this file to add itself.


Your files are backed up. At this point it's time to move
things over to the next host. There's a way we can do this
without you having to download the whole thing, and
re-upload it.



STEP 4: ARRANGE YOUR FILE FOR PICKUP


Remember how I said when you were in "wwwroot" or
"public_html" not to browse into the folder containing a
domain name? Well now it's time to move that dump over into
one of them so it can be picked up.


If one of your folders is, say, yourdomain.com, type:


mv dump.tar yourdomain.com


This moves "dump.tar" into the folder "yourdomain.com".



STEP 5: MOVE THE NEW FILE OVER


Login to your new host. Browse to its "wwwroot" or
"public_html" folder.


Most hosts include a program called "wget" which works sort
of like a browser in that you give it a URL to pick-up that
it loads. Only this browser also saves the file you want to
load.


If your old host was at yourdomain.com, you'd just type:


wget http://www.yourdomain.com/dump.tar


This will load that URL and save it as "dump.tar". You'll
probably see some sort of progress indicator as it goes.



STEP 6: DECOMPRESSING THE FILE


Once you have the file, you use that same TAR program to
decompress it. Type:


tar -xvf test.tar


The "v" and "f" are still there, but instead of "c" (create)
we use "x" (extract). This will unpack each file and let us
know which one it's working on.



STEP 7: RESTORING THE MYSQL DATABASE


Before you can put the mySQL dump back into the database,
you have to go into this new web host's control panel and
create blank databases with the same names as you had
before.


You also have to create a mySQL user and make sure that user
has access to all those databases you've created.


Once that's done find the dump.sql that was unpacked with
all of the other files.


Instead of using the program "mysqldump" to dump the files,
we use the program "mysql" which let's us put commands into
the database. That's basically what a dump is, a file full
of commands that, when run, will recreate the old database
exactly.


This time we don't type in the database name right away. To
get into mySQL from the command prompt, type:


mysql -umyuser -pmypassword


Where "myuser" and "mypassword" are your mySQL username and
password. Once you're in you'll get kind of a weird looking
prompt. All you have to do at this point is type:


source dump.sql


This says, open up the file dump.sql, read through it and do
whatever it says to do in that file. You will see a bunch
of lines telling you a command has been entered (0 Rows
Affected, 1 Rows Affected, something like that).


If everything goes smoothly, type "quit" and you will be
back in the shell.


You've just moved one site (or a bunch of sites) over from
one host to another in about 5 minutes.

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