How to copy Expert Advisors from your home PC to a VPS

When you order a Forex VPS from us, certainly you would like to copy over all your expert advisors and their settings, so you wouldn’t need to configure everything manually once again. Read further to learn how to do just that.

Connect your home PC’s disk to a VPS

First, you need to create a connection between your home PC and the VPS to transfer files. Please see the following article: How to upload files to a Windows VPS

Allow experts to run on the VPS

You need to allow EAs to run on the VPS:

1. On the VPS, open MetaTrader.
2. In the main menu select “Tools” -> “Options”.
3. Switch to the “Expert Advisors” tab.
4. Make sure the following options are checked (check them if needed):
   • “Allow algorithmic trading”
   • “Allow DLL imports”

Copy Expert Advisor files

Expert Advisors (experts) consist of several files located in the “Experts”, “Libraries”, and “Presets” folders in your MetaTrader data folder. In this section we explain how to find them on your working MT instance and copy them out for transfer later.

Export EA onto a VPS

1. Open MetaTrader on your PC.
2. In the main menu go to “File” -> “Open Data Folder”.
   
3. A new Explorer window opens. In this window find a folder called “MQL5” or “MQL4”. Open it.
   
4. Copy “Experts”, “Libraries”, and “Presets” from that folder to your desktop or another easily reachable location.
   
5. Go to the VPS, navigate to your home PC’s drive, to which you connected in the previous section, and find the exported “Experts”, “Libraries”, and “Presets” folders there. Copy them to the VPS desktop.

Import EA into MetaTrader on the VPS

1. On the VPS open MetaTrader.
2. In the main menu go to “File” -> “Open Data Folder”.
3. A new Explorer window opens. In this window navigate to the “MQL5″/”MQL4” folder.
4. Copy the “Experts”, “Libraries”, and “Presets” folders from the VPS desktop into this folder. Confirm overwriting if necessary.
5. In MetaTrader, in the “Navigator” area, expand “Expert Advisors”, then expand “Advisors”. Right click that “Advisors” folder and select “Refresh” in the context menu. The newly copied EA should appear.