# Migrating rails website from one server to another

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/migrating-rails-website-from-one-server-to-another/163515>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 21, 2009, 8:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/migrating-rails-website-from-one-server-to-another/163515 "2009-03-21T08:04:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![ankit2584](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@ankit2584](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ankit2584)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 8:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/migrating-rails-website-from-one-server-to-another/163515/1 "2009-03-21T08:04:17Z")

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Hello,  
I have rails website running on one windows server. How can i migrate  
the website from one server to another ensuring gems and plugins are  
also migrated. both the servers run windoes 2003 and the database is  
mssql 2000.  
Thank you.

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**Author:** ![ankit2584](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@ankit2584](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ankit2584)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 8:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/migrating-rails-website-from-one-server-to-another/163515/2 "2009-03-21T08:29:52Z")

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plugins are all inside your rails-project’s directory. so moving that  
would move your plugins with it. and to make sure you got all the gems  
just list them (“gem list”) and reinstall the same version on your new  
machine.

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**Author:** ![ankit2584](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@ankit2584](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ankit2584)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 8:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/migrating-rails-website-from-one-server-to-another/163515/3 "2009-03-21T08:32:13Z")

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forgot to state the (even more) obvious: dump your mysql-db to a file  
and insert it in your new db.