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willydoit
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May 15, 2009, 2:41 AM

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As we are currently involved in a huge rewrite of a site we initially intended to create our cms based content on a test site and transfer it to the main site after the rewrite was completed, however we came across a few posts which seemed to indicate that transfering the cms and sql elements may not be straightforward or without issues so we opted to work on the new content within the main site and work around existing content which we have managed to do fairly succesfully.

However due to recent events we are considering changing our hosting providors which means that if we go ahead we will be faced with the task of not just transferring our cms apps from one domain to another within the same hosting company but will now need to transfer to a whole new server. To this end I need to know how feasible is it to transfer the site across to a new provider.

At present we have limited information stored as we have really only got the section editors created as we require so would I be correct in assuming that it would be the simplest solution to simply install the cms software on the new server and and then recreate the section editors by uploading the ini.php files from the current schema folder to the schema preset folder in the new location and creating the new section editors using the uploads as templates or would we need the database from the old server as well?

I have backed up the database (I think correctly) using phpmyadmin which was provided in the control panel of the current hosting company but am at present unsure as to whether it will be available at the new hosting company so not sure how easy it will be to transfer this backup to a new database and certainly dont have the knowledge at present to do it.

Also if we are able to transfer without issue am I equally likely to be able to create all my content using a test domain which can than be transferred over to the main domain after the rewrite is completed as this would be far easier to administer as opposed to trying to design and create within the live working site, unfortunately we do not have the luxury of being able to simply deny access to the main site during the rewrite period so building within a test site is the better option just so long as we can guarantee a seamless transfer afterwards.

Any help or advice on this would be appreciated before I do too much development on the existing install which may turn out to be a waste of time.



Thanks in advance


ross
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May 15, 2009, 9:30 AM

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Hi there.

Thanks for posting!

You are on the right track so far with your server move. The .ini.php files will let you easily re-create all your sections again on the new server. The second part is your data and that's going to be a little trickier.

Once you have it exported with phpMyAdmin on your old server, you can probably just import it with phpMyAdmin on the new server provided it's available. What I would do is contact your webhost on the new server and ask them what options you have for importing database dumps.

Now, with the data, there is going to be one main thing to watch out for. Your images. The server paths for each image are stored in your database and when you move to a new server, those paths change and need to be updated. This is something that you'll need to do manually. Once you have that database dump from the old server though, you can probably just open in a text editor and do some search/replace.

Make sure your new server has a database import tool first though and then we'll go from there.

Thanks!
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willydoit
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May 15, 2009, 2:10 PM

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Thanks Ross,

Have just created new database on new location and created editors from php ini files and all seems fine thanks.


(This post was edited by willydoit on May 18, 2009, 5:42 AM)