After having developend and tested your website on a local server, the next big challenge is uploading the website to your web server, and updating the configuration such that you "go live". The tutorial below gives you the steps required to move your Joomla website from your local computer to a server. With a few tweaks these steps also apply to moving Joomla from one host to another.
Upload all files to your web server
The first thing you need to do is transfer the files to the web server where your live site will be hosted. To be able to do this, you will need FTP (FTP is a way of allowing easy transfer of files across the web) access to your web server. FTP access typically consists of:
Upload all files to your web server
The first thing you need to do is transfer the files to the web server where your live site will be hosted. To be able to do this, you will need FTP (FTP is a way of allowing easy transfer of files across the web) access to your web server. FTP access typically consists of: