Relocate Magento Install

How do I relocate a Magento Install

It’s really not that bad once you know what to edit.

• make a backup of your magento database
• make a backup of your magento files
• install files and database at new location
• go into core_config_data table and search for “base”, there’s two base URLs you’ll need to point to new URL, the regular and secure one
• edit app/etc/local.xml to use new database credentials
• remove all files in var/cache and var/sesson
• set the permissions to 775 recursively on var

That’s it! You should be up and running with your Magento install at a new location. Please note that failure to set the permissions on var may create weird behaviour.