Site Move Overview

Let’s start by looking at an overview of the migration process. A detailed description of each step will be described in the next section.

Create a ‘Package’ of Your Site

Duplicator Pro works by bundling up your site the following two ‘package files’:

• Installer.php: Used to install the site. Simply browse to installer.php to start the installa wizard (described later).
• Archive.zip: Contains all site information – both standard site files as well as a dump of your database.
• Note: A backup of the installer.php file is also contained within the archive file

Move the Package to the New Site

Now it’s a matter of copying the package files to the new location. You can do this by simply downloading the files.

The new location mentioned above is C:\wamp64\www, meaning that nilavema chronicles is the only site on this local WAMP server

Browse to the Installer

Once the package files are at the new location, browse to the http://installer.php and follow the instructions shown in the wizard.

Note that before continuing this "deployment wizard" we need to first create the new, empty database (will call it nilavema) and a new user (will call it **nikivancic** to fit the credentials used at other instances of the nilavema chronicles)

The installer will extract the site files from the zip archive, install the database and replace site URLs with new ones.

The last step removes all of the Duplicator's "internal data"