I have all the symfony 1.4.18 source file in a folder called symfony. And I have the database. under this symfony folder it has apps, cache, config, data, lib, log, plugins, test, web, .gitignore, symfony what all i need to do to make it work in another shared host server? how can i make it run in localhost ? the config file is the following Under the config folder, vhost.conf file DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/web <Directory /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/web> Options +FollowSymlinks php_admin_value open_basedir "/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs:/tmp:/usr/local/php:/usr/share/pear" </Directory> properties.ini file [prod] host=youripaddress port=22 user=yourusername dir=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/ type=rsync password=yourpassword databases.yml all: doctrine: class: sfDoctrineDatabase param: dsn: 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=yourdbname' username: yourdbusername password: yourdbpassword attributes: default_table_type: InnoDB default_table_collate: utf8_unicode_ci default_table_charset: utf8 use_dql_callbacks: true