closing website and linux server

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I need to shut down my linux server acct soon and I guess either shut down my website completely OR some how transfer my exist Linux based website onto my windows 10 pro laptop, at least for maybe a year or so to continue development.

I just do not know how to do this entire process. I do not want to just loose everything by just pulling the plug, and I might like to do so work on website in mean time, offline I guess, but I do not at this time expect to have a live site for maybe 1 or 2 years from now.

For me this is sad But necessary health reasons.

Can anyone give me ideas or step by step or whatever??? I want to complete everything necessay within the next 7 to 10 days

Please advise
Thx
Mike

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JohntheFish replied on at Permalink Reply
JohntheFish
You need to take a complete SQL backup of the database and a complete copy (usually as a zip) of the all the files beneath the web root. That will provide everything you (or any developer) needs to later make new copies of the site offline or on another host.

Most hosting account control panels have utilities for doing this.

Its best to disable and clear the c5 cache and disable pretty URLs before making the backups.

If you are on a 5.6 site, you can also use my Backup Voodoo addon to do this, but if you are shutting down a site and are making a one-off copy for your archives, you probably just want to use the control panel rather than purchase and install a new addon.

You may also want to make arrangements to keep ownership of any domain names. If you just close the hosting account, you could loose any domain names associated with it, so will either need to reduce it to a domain-registration only account or move your domain names to another provider's domain only account.
Gondwana replied on at Permalink Reply
Gondwana
Good info at
https://documentation.concrete5.org/developers/installation/moving-a...

A gotcha on Windows installations is that the database may default to being case-insensitive. That can create problems when moving back to linux.