Part 4: Easiest way to Migrate Drupal site from local machine to server
Published on : April 27, 2026
Here are the steps to migrate a Drupal site local machine to a server:
- Take your database backup.
- Create a zip file of the Drupal site that you want to migrate to server
- Upload the zip file to server and extract it to desired location.
- Remove settings.php
- Go to browser and type the domain_name/sub_domain name and do a clean installation of Drupal as usual
- Replace the server database with your backup database that you have taken from local machine.
- Make sure you have proper permissions sets on ‘files’ directory.
This is the quick and best way to migrate a local Drupal site to sever
