My Host Has Closed Down, How Can I

Mr-Ice-Man

New Member
My host has closed down (www.ehost.net) and i carnt get onto my site now.
Can anyone tell me how i can move hosts and keep my forum and everything on it?

I carnt get into forum control panel but i can get into website control panel.
 

SpeedRazors

New Member
goto phpmyadmin and export the database that's the most important thing.... installing a new forum and installing the hack cq style is less work than doing the whole thing over :).... on your new host just upload the forum and import the database.... do some maintenance in admincp and everything except hacks will be back :)
 

Mr-Ice-Man

New Member
Right ive uploaded new forum.
How do i go about importing the database so everything comes back onto the new forum.

Can someone tell me step by step please, Im lost and need it back up tonight.
 

Itsuki Minami

New Member
mmm, err you have phpmyadmin right?

1.- go to you phpmyadmin
2.-create a database
3.-click the database name in the lesft colum to manage it
4.- in the right frame search for import
5.- Upload your database
6.- edit the config.php to point to that database

I think that's all the other way is to use mysqldumper ;D cya
 

Mr-Ice-Man

New Member
Itsuki Minami said:
mmm, err you have phpmyadmin right?

1.- go to you phpmyadmin
2.-create a database
3.-click the database name in the lesft colum to manage it
4.- in the right frame search for import
5.- Upload your database
6.- edit the config.php to point to that database

I think that's all the other way is to use mysqldumper ;D cya

Ok cheers matey, just done that now, how long does it take to upload? The database im uploading is 358MB
 

Itsuki Minami

New Member
well mate you will need big dump, i will take with the bigdump script maybe half hour heres a guide:

How to Import Large MySQL Data Files

One Step: Use BigDump

I've been so frustrated at the file size limits for uploading large MySQL data files, and BigDump is the answer. Works like a charm.

More details below...

* BigDump Website
* Import a MySQL data dump with BigDump | drupal.org

Basic Idea

1. Enter database/login info into BigDump PHP script
2. Upload script file and MySQL datafile to writable, web-accessible directory on your website.
3. Run the script by navigating to your website URL containing the BigDump script.

Result: Script loads data by breaking the large file into smaller chunks and loading each chunk separately into the database. Very smooth.
USAGE

1. Open BigDump in a text editor and adjust the database configuration
2. Drop the old tables on the target database if your dump doesn't contain "DROP TABLE" (use phpMyAdmin)
3. Create the working directory (e.g. dump) on your web-server
4. If you want to upload the dump files directly from the web-browser give the scripts writing permissions on the working directory (e.g. make chmod 777 on a Linux based system). You can upload the dump files from the browser up to the size limit set by the current PHP configuration of the web-server. Alternatively you can upload any files via FTP.
5. Upload bigdump.php and the dump files (*.sql or *.gz) via FTP to the working directory (take care of TEXT mode upload for bigdump.php and dump.sql but BINARY mode for dump.gz if uploading from MS Windows).
6. Run the bigdump.php from your browser via URL like http://www.yourdomain.com/dump/bigdump.php . Now you can select the file to be imported from the listing of your working directory.
7. BigDump will start every next import session automatically if you enable the JavaScript in your browser.
8. Relax and wait for the script to finish. Do not close the browser window!
9. IMPORTANT: Remove bigdump.php and your dump files from your server

Note 1: BigDump will fail processing large tables containing extended inserts. An extended insert contains all table entries within one SQL query. BigDump isn't able to split such SQL queries. In most cases BigDump will stop if some query includes to many lines. But if PHP complains that allowed memory size exhausted or MySQL server has gone away your dump probably also contains extended inserts. Please turn off extended inserts when exporting database from phpMyAdmin.

Note 2: Some web-servers disallow script execution in the directory with writing permissions for security reasons. If you changed the permissions on the working directory and you are getting a server error when running the script restore the permissions to their normal state for directories.

Note 3: If Timeout errors still occure you may need to adjust the $linespersession setting in bigdump.php.

Note 4: If mySQL server overrun occures you can use $delaypersession setting to let the script sleep some milliseconds or more before starting next session. This setting will only work if the JavaScript is activated.

Note 5: BigDump is currently not able to restore a single dump file with multiple databases inside (switched by the USE statement).

Note 6: If you experience problems with non-latin characters while using BigDump you have to adjust the $db_connection_char_set configuration variable in bigdump.php to match the encoding of your dump file.
 

Mr-Ice-Man

New Member
I keep gettin this message...

Error at the line 27: ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

Query: --
--
--
--
CREATE TABLE `access` (
`userid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`forumid` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`accessmask` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`userid`,`forumid`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

MySQL: Table 'access' already exists
 

Mr-Ice-Man

New Member
Sorry my mistake, ok just made new empty database, and now im gettin this message from the dump

Stopped at the line 354.

At this place the current query includes more than 300 dump lines. That can happen if your dump file was created by some tool which doesn't place a semicolon followed by a linebreak at the end of each query, or if your dump contains extended inserts. Please read the BigDump FAQs for more infos.
 

Mr-Ice-Man

New Member
Ive been offline for a week or so due to computer problems.

Im having massive problems still coz my attatcment table is 300+ MB and my host wont rise it for me...

Does anyone know if i can put the tables for from my old database so members will be added to my new database and forum and be able to sign in with there old username and password...

Its a real pain.
 
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