Back up your CGI stub, metadata and serve directories on the old server.

Install a copy of them on the new server. Move them to the appropriate locations. Tweak the CGI stub, if you need to, to accomodate changes in installation locations. (Consider using .htaccess to limit access to the new FOM to you until you have it configured.)

Connect to FOM on the new server. Access the install page. Go through "define configuration parameters," and fix up any paths that have changed, and the hostname part of $serveUrl. Save those changes, and "rebuild cache files."

INSTALL FOM ON DESTINATION MACHINE
First install faq-o-matic on destintion machine.
Complete all the setup and configure steps (just go down the list!).
Make sure you bookmark the install/configure screen when you see that option!!! You'll need this bookmark later.
Verify that it works by loading up the FAQ, but don't add anything!
It is important to verify that you can get FOM to work on the destination machine before you attempt the transfer!

ARCHIVE THE FOM SOURCE FILES
Use tar (and then gzip) to compress the files (will save permissions automatically)

        >tar -cf fomarchive /var/www/cgi-bin/fom
        >tar -cf fommetaarchive /var/www/cgi-bin/fom-meta/
        >tar -cf fomservearchive /var/www/html/fom-serve/

GET THE ARCHIVED FOM FILES TO THE DESTINATION MACHINE
Copy these over to the new location, most likely by setting up a NSF share on source machine and using mount on the other.
You have to be su to mount and the share directory needs to exist on the source. For example:

        mount kyle.southpark.com:/home/kenny/tmpshare /home/kenny/tmpshare
        [source location with NSF running ] [distination version]

UNARCHIVE FOM ARCHIVES IN YOUR DESTINATION /HOME DIRECTORY
Now use ungzip on all files (I know tar can do it! Nevermind that!)

        >ungzip *.gz

        >tar --same-permissions -xvf *.tar

REPLACE FOM

        >rm /var/www/cgi-bin/fom
        >cp fom /var/www/cgi-bin

        -rwxr-xr-x    root   root    fom

REPLACE FOM-META

        >rm -r -f /var/www/cgi-bin/fom-meta/
        >cp -r -reply=yes fom-meta/ /var/www/cgi-bin/fom-meta

        drwxr-xr-x    nobody   root    fom-meta

        -rw-------    cookies
        -rw-------    idfile
        drwx------    RCS

REPLACE FOM-SERVE

        >rm -r -f /var/www/html/fom-serve/
        >cp -r -reply=yes fom-serve/ /var/www/html/fom-serve

        drwxr-xr-x    nobody   root   fom-serve

        drwxr-xr-x    nobody   nobody   bags
        drwxr-xr-x    nobody   nobody   cache
        drwxr-xr-x    nobody   nobody   item

        -rw-r--r--    nobody   nobody 

EDIT THE CRUCIAL CONFIGURATION INFORMATION
Thinking of firing up the faq now? Don't, you might get errors.
DO the following first:
Edit lines 1 and 3 of /var/www/cgi-bin/fom so that they point to your perl interpreter and perl libraries.
Mine are

        Line1:  #!/usr/bin/perl -wT
        Line2:  use lib '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0';

REDO THE FOM INSTALL/CONFIGURATION STEPS
Now you are ready to start up the faq, but start up the INSTALL screen where you set all the config parameters.
You SHOULD have bookmarked this when you initially setup faq-o-matic on the destination machine.
If and when you are asked for your username and password, use the same email and password as you used on the sourcemachine.
Of course, this probably won't work and you'll have to choose a new password (it can be the same as the old one). FOM will email you a secret code to verify that the email is correct, just copy and paste it into the given box.
[note: if fom says that it can't access the idfile.lck, then you need to check the permissions on the fom-meta/ directory, not the idfile itself.]
Now you should be inside the FOM INSTALL (after entering the now good email and password). If your destination system is setup the same as the source, then you'll have to change very little if anything.
The host should already be changed, but check it anyway!
When you are happy, press the DEFINE button at the bottom.
Now you'll see the checklist again.

        GO THROUGH AND DO EVERY STEP IN ORDER. EVERY STEP!

        Travis Seymour