Craft CMS not working on server

Question

I had my Craft CMS site working on my local hosting. I then moved it over to bluehost VPS. I moved the database and uploaded the files to the server. I've put the database user information in the .env file and the server location. But site comes back on domain:

Service Unavailable Our site is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.

When I try to admin in it tells me:

Service Unavailable Craft isn’t installed yet.

Any suggestions would be of great help.

Answer 1

When you clone a project to the server you have to reinstall craft just like you did locally, you have the files but nothing is installed.

• Enter to your server; for expample with ssh root@your_ip
• Navigate to your path project; for example, on an Ubuntu - NGINX server it would be something like this: cd /var/www/html
• Intall Craft: php craft install (make sure you have the correct database credentials in .env file)
• If you use Composer and NPM install the dependencies: composer install && npm install

Then you should have Craft installed. More info about installation here.

Answer 2

Service Unavailable Craft isn’t installed yet.

If you're getting that message, then Craft can connect to the database with the credentials you've provided, but it can't find the info table, so it thinks it's not installed.

Maybe the tablePrefix config setting is set incorrectly in your .env file?