Question

I have a Joomla database that was dumped into a .txt file on an appache server using the command:-

mysqldump -u admin --opt -p passwd > private/alexthekiddb.txt

How do import that into a new MySQL database on my IIS server so I can attempt a conversion from Joomla to WordPress.

I can use phpmyadmin or the MySQL builtin command line tool.

I already have a 2nd new database created with the same name and user (and PW) as the original.

Answer 1

Normally, just running mysql private/alexthekiddb.txt or mysql < private/alexthekiddb.txt should be enough. Hence, such dump files are usually suffixed .sql

Of course, you should have a MySQL server on the target machine (IIS thing).