Migrating a whole website between Craft instances A developer built our site locally configured as "craft.dev". At the same time, my sysadmin was busy getting Craft installed with Apache on our Linux server. He set that up with our real domain and purchased the $299 license for "ourcoolwebsite.com".  

Now we've got the real website on the developer's machine, and a blank website on the linux server. 

What files/folders do we need to migrate to get the real website up? Should we just dump and load his database and overwrite the one that was created for the install? I am guessing there are some database tables with data specific to my purchase and license key that differ from his. Basically I want to know how to take his work and put it into my production environment with database tables and file paths.
Make sure both Craft installs are up-to-date.
Craft's license is saved in craft/config/license.key, make a backup of your purchased license file.
Move all your files/directories except:


  /craft/app/
  /craft/storage/

Copy the backup of your license.key to craft/config/.
Remove /craft/storage/, if it exists on your new server, to prevent cache errors.
"dump and load" your database to the new server. Craft will update what's necessary.
Update your config settings in /craft/config/.
Go to your BackEnd.


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