How to Migrate OVH Website to PlanetHoster

To find out about all the necessary steps for migration, please consult the article explaining how to migrate your website to PlanetHoster.

It explains that two steps depend on your current host: copying the files and copying the database onto your computer. In the following lines, we will explain these two steps in the case of a website hosted with OVHcloud.

How to Copy the Files

A copy of the files on the OVH service have to be downloaded to your computer. This will enable you to transfer them to your new PlanetHoster hosting via FTP.

1. Log in to your OVHcloud customer area in the Web section.
2. Click on Hostings.
3. Click on the name of the desired hosting.
4. Click on the FTP – SSH tab.
5. Take note of the following:

• active FTP or SSH user (username);
• server address (host);
• server connection port.

6. Make sure you know the password associated with this FTP or SSH user. If you do not, you will need to change it.
7. Open an FTP session with FileZilla and fill in the Host, Username, Port and Password fields, then click on the Quick Connect button.
8. Once connected, select the contents of your website folder in the Remote site section and download it to your computer. If you do not know where your website folder is located:

• Log in to your OVHcloud customer area.
• Click on Hostings.
• Click on the name of the desired hosting, and choose the Multisite tab. The root folder is then displayed :

When this is done, you have to copy these files via FTP to your hosting in the public_html folder for your main domain. Please refer to the article How to Migrate your Website at PlanetHoster.

How to Copy the Database

In order to migrate the database to PlanetHoster, you must first create a backup file on your computer. We will show you how to do this from OVHcloud’s phpMyAdmin database manager.

1. Log in to your OVHcloud control panel.
2. Go to the Web Cloud section.
3. In the left-hand column, click on Hosting plans, then choose the name of the hosting plan in question.
4. Click on the Databases tab.
5. This displays all the databases that are part of your web hosting plan. In this window, click on the … button to the right of the desired database, then select Go to phpMyAdmin.
6. In the phpMyAdmin login interface, enter the required information. The password to be entered is that of your database (this information can be found in your website configuration file). Then click on the GO button.
7. You are now in the OVH phpMyAdmin tool. Click on the Export tab.
8. In the phpMyAdmin database export tool, choose the Quick Method export method and the SQL format, then click on the GO button.
9. Your web browser will then offer you the choice of opening or saving the file. Select Save and make a note of your local download directory on your computer, as you will need this file in .SQL format for later.

You then need to create a database on your PlanetHoster hosting, import the previously exported database into this new database and, finally, modify your connection configuration files to the database of your website with the new information previously generated during the creation of the database. Please refer to the article explaining How to Migrate your Website to PlanetHoster.