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