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Move your Magento site from one hosting account to another

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Follow these steps to transfer Magento from one account to another: Step 1: Backup the Magento MySQL Database Step 2: Transfer all Magento Files Step 3: Adjust the Magento Configuration Step 4: Restore the Magento Database STEP 1 Backup the Magento MySQL Database On SiteGround servers you have phpMyAdmin included by default in cPanel for your account. In other cases you will have to use the same tool or a similar one that is capable of exporting your MySQL database. Detailed information on how to perform a MySQL backup can be found in our MySQL Tutorial. Alternatively, if you don’t have phpMyAdmin installed but you have shell access you can use the mysqldump tool. The syntax is as follows: mysqldump -h HOST -u USER -p DATABASENAME > FILENAME.sql where: HOST is the database server hostname or it can be omitted if you are running the MySQL server locally USER - a user with full privileges to the Magento database DATABASENAME - is the full name of the database whic