Move a Joomla Site from Test Directory to Live - Joomla Tutorial

You can login via your hosting company's site or you could go via FTP. Essentially you just need a way to get to your files.

Every hosting company should give you access to your files, althought the access may be in different places with each host. This is an example from the popular CPanel software.

We're going to open up the folder that contains our templates.

Select the "rhuk_milkyway" folder and click "Copy"

Choose a new name for the folder. In this case, I'm simply going to call it "rhuk_milkyway_copy" and click "Copy File(s)"

Check the box next to "templateDetails.xml" and select any of the editing options. templateDetails.xml is the table of contents for our template and contains all of the identifying information that Joomla needs.

Inside the fields, change the name of the template to something that clearly identifies it as a copy.

Now if you go to Administrator >> Extensions >> Template Manager you should see the two copies of the same template.