Support

 Hi,
I have a new host package with a well-known Joomla hoster. I have a site setup there with no content and not much config. It is currently off-line.
I found "live" dev a bit slow and awkward, so I downloaded and setup XAMPP / Joomla on my local PC. I now have the site the way I wanted (not perfect, but a start).
Of course, I have Akeeba Backup and Admin Tools on both hoster site and local site.
I note I have different Database Name and Database Table Prefix on hoster and on localhost.
I now want to upload the dev site on localhost up to the live site on hoster.
I start to review the docs on Site Transfer Wizard and find it's deprecated.
So:
1 - what's the best procedure to get my localhost site up to the live server?
2 - should I change the database name and prefix on the localhost site to match the ones already on the live site (or does it matter?)
Thanks, Mike

My preference is Kickstart, but I'm a dinosaur. :-)

The site transfer wizard has problems sometimes on large sites. It has trouble actually transferring the archive to the new site and it fails. For a small site, that shouldn't be an issue. Just do your local backup, use the wizard to upload, extract and install.

Or if you use Kickstart, you do the local backup, manually upload the archive, run Kickstart, which extracts the archive and runs the installer. It works the same either way, the wizard just saves you a few clicks.

The difference in database, user names and password does not matter. The installer script will prompt you for new database connection details if it can't connect with the backed up details.

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