Hosting a website created with xampp

Question

I have spent some time designing a wordpress/phpbb site, and hosting it on localhost using xampp. I would like to soon host my website on a real domain, but I am not sure what I would have to do and change in order to make it a success. Is it possible to just use the files I have placed in htdocs inside the xampp directory?

Thanks for your help, and sorry if my question is confusing or badly explained.

Answer 1

Yes it is, that's the point of XAMPP - website prototyping. I assume that by real domain you mean a hosting service. If you also use MySQL make sure you copy all data to the new database and check PHP dependencies with the new host.