Moving To New Host?

[Storyteller]

Hello,

I am working on moving my Mysidia based pet site from one host (iPage) to another. Are there any tutorials that can teach me how to do this transition smoothly? I tried ftp all the files in my File Manager to my computer and then to the new host File Manager, and then Export the database and Import it into a new one on the new host, but it didn't work.

Total newbie here, any help would be seriously appreciated!

[Hall of Famer]

Well all you have to do is to back up your site(inside public_html) through FTP, and your database file through phpmyadmin, then upload the same one to your new webhost.

[Storyteller]

I tried that. I had to rename my database and users with a new password as my new host won't let me name them in the same format as before. I updated my config file to reflect the changes, but my site is showing an error =\

Could not connect to database, the following error has occurred:
SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'whitemea_wubbiedb1'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

[Hall of Famer]

You dont really need to name your new database the same format as the old one. Just create new database with new username/password, put them in your config.php. Then go to phpmyadmin, and import the records from database backup.