[Medtech]

I've done this a few times myself. make sure all images and attachments go to the file system first so your database remains small.

Download the entire "forums" folder or what ever you have it named, download it with ftp. do a database backup in the admincp.

on your friends server, park your domain there as a subdomain (public_html/the forum folder). upload the file system (forums) folder to a sub directory (public_html/the forums folder) create a database with the same database name as yours and the same userid and password. upload your database backup into mysql. go into your includes.php and edit the url to the forum.

now point your domain to NS1.yourfriendsserver.com and NS2.yourfriendsserver.com. those are the nameservers.

after this, your forum should work as it always has and users will not notice it moved.

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if you want the url to your forum to read www. yoursite.com instead of www. yoursite.com/forums then in the domain manager, have the subdomain point to your forum root folder. public_html/yourforumfolder.