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Hey guys, I currectly run a small personal website, with a php guestbook, forums, and some static html pages. I installed the forums and things through my web host, and from what I understand, the licenses are basically free. Anyway, I've been backing up my site regularly, but I was wondering what would happen to the forums if I had to switch hosts some time in the distant future? If my next host supports php, should I be able to just drag and drop my entire home directory into the new host and have everything work, or do php programs actually have to be installed somehow?

i'm such a newb. 🙁
 
You'll have to back up the PHP files and the database (I'm assuming it uses MySQL but could be wrong). What software is it?

Rob
 
InvisionBoard is the forums, the guestbook is phpBook.

in my forums folder, where the index.php is, i've also got folders labeled: archive_in, archive_out, html, lang, pkg, Skin, sources, ssi_templates, style_images, and uploads, along with some more loose .php files. Does it sound like this is what I need to worry about backing up?
 
I would back up the entire forums directory. Then from the admin module, you can back up the entire database (admin -> SQL Management). Then you can restore that from an interface like PHPMyAdmin on your new server.

Rob
 
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