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Lunarpages FTP Setup
You can create as many ftp account for your websites at lunarpages hosting plan. Lunarpages gives you many different ways to manage your FTP access to your hosting account, LPCP’s FTP account creation, editing and deleting is very straight forward and easy to learn.
How to Create an FTP Account
To create an FTP account at lunarpages hosting, you must log into your LPCP account for your web hosting plan, and then under Your Site, click on the FTP Accounts link. That will take you to the FTP Accounts Manager. The first step is to click on the "Add New" link at the top of the page. Next, you will see a screen that gives you all thing settings you need to fill out to create your new FTP account.
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Lunarpages Frontpage Extensions
Lunarpages supports FrontPage Extensions. All you need to do is install them with one click via your control panel. Lunarpages also supports most other popular HTML editors.
This is how you would install FrontPage Extensions using LPCP. This way your web sites hosted under your shared hosting plan can use FrontPage to publish.
The first thing you would need to do is login to Lunarpages cPanel. From the front page, click "Frontpage Extensions" on the left and then click "Install FrontPage Extensions". This will take you to the Install FrontPage on an Account page.
Select the domain or user name for the account you wish to edit, and then click on the "Install" button. FrontPage Extensions will now be installed for that lunarpags hosting plan.
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Lunarpages Hosting vs Joomla
lunarpages hosting is supporting joomla cms. Lunarpages hosting $4.95 per month running php with unlimited mysql database and using cpanel control panel, are suitable for joomla hosting.
You can easily install joomla at lunarpages. Lunarpages give the option to install manually, through LPCP’s WebApps page or cPanel’s Fantastico page. The process is simple, straight forward and to the point.
We had run a test run on lunarpages hosting, and successfully setup a simple joomla website for testing purpose. Later, the joomla site is tested, and its website loading speed and performance is evaluated. We find out that lunarpages hosting is a good joomla web hosting plan.
How to Move Joomla from Your Previous Host to Lunarpages?
Step 1: Backup everything!
The first thing you want to do is backup all files within your Joomla! installation. Create a folder on your local system, and download all files to that folder using your ftp client application. I used FileZilla as my ftp client application to download all of my files to a folder on my desktop .
Step 2: Export your database
Note: For this step, it really helps if you have phpMyAdmin installed on your server. Most hosting companies have phpMyAdmin already installed. If you are unsure, ask your hosting provider.
The second thing you need to do is export your Joomla! database. The best thing to do is to export it into an SQL file, which makes importing it easier in a later step. An SQL file will contain all of the necessary SQL commands for creating your database tables and filling them with your data. Be sure you export the entire database.
Step 3: Modify configuration.php
This step is very important. Go to the folder on your local system to which you downloaded all of your Joomla! files. In the first level folder, you will find the file named "configuration.php". Open this file with a text editor and make the necessary changes. At the very least, you will probably need to change the following parameters:
- $mosConfig_absolute_path: This is the absolute server path to your new Joomla! installation. It will probably look something like "/path/to/joomla/installation".
- $mosConfig_cachepath: This is the absolute server path to the cache for your Joomla! installation. It will probably look something like "/path/to/joomla/installation/cache".
- $mosConfig_live_site: This is your website’s url. It will be something like "http://www.yoursite.com".
- $mosConfig_host: This is the location of the server that hosts your MySQL database. For most instances, this value will be "localhost". If you are unsure, ask lunarpages pls.
- $mosConfig_db: This is the name of your MySQL database.
- $mosConfig_user: This is the database user name. Make sure this user has all privileges on your database.
- $mosConfig_password: This is the password for your MySQL database user.
Step 4: Upload all of your files to your new server
Using an ftp client application (like FileZilla), upload all of your files to the location on your new server where you want to install Joomla!.
Step 5: Import your database to your new MySQL server
Using phpMyAdmin (or console commands if you are an advanced database administrator) and the SQL file you generated in step 2, import your old database into your new database.
Step 6: Test your new installation
Your move should now be complete, but please don’t take my word for it. Test your site to make sure that everything is in it’s proper place and working the way you expect it to. For example, if you did not use relative url’s for your links on your old site, they will not work properly on your new site.
If you are uneasy or uncomfortable with this process, I strongly recommend that you hire a professional to do this for you.
Lunarpages Mysql Database
Lunarpages hosting provides unlimited mysql database. With the unlimited storage space, unlimited domain, and unlimited mysql database features putting together, you are able to host even more websites, 100 websites… 200 websites…or more.
Some hosting provider offering you unlimited domain hosting but only give you very limited mysql database number, this restricted the amount of websites that you can host. Its common today that each website will utilise one mysql database. Example is this lunarpages review blog made from wordpress blog, and it uses one mysql database as well.
You can create new mysql database when you login to lunarpages control panel and go to mysql database section. Add new database and remove existing mysql database is an ease via lunarpages cpanel.
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Lunarpages Zen Cart vs Ecommerce Hosting
Lunarpages hosting is perfect for people who want to start up their ecommerce hosting and online business with free web-based business tools. You can enjoy the unlimited bandwidth, unlimited storage, unlimited MySQL database, Instant SSL certificate, and few shopping cart applications supported such as Miva Merchant, OsCommerce, Cube Cart and Zen Cart.
The free, user-friendly and open source shopping cart software, Zen Cart is perfect for any eCommerce web site hosted at Lunarpages. With the thoughts of shop owners, programmers, designers and more in mind, Zen Cart is one of the best third-party shopping cart scripts out there.
You can easily install Zen Cart at lunarpages. Lunarpages give the option to install manually, through LPCP’s WebApps page or cPanel’s Fantastico page. The process is simple, straight forward and to the point.
Note: You can directly install this Zen Cart through Lunarpages control panel. Installation Zen Cart at lunarpages is automated and the administration section is very user-friendly. You can customize the whole appearance of your Zen Cart for your website.
If you need to see example of Zen Cart powered web sites, you can check out Zen Cart’s showcase page. OpenSourceCMS.com also has a hosted demo of the shopping cart script on it’s web site.
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